Geographical spread of Philpott's

Met a Philpott today on a social ride with the London Cycle Touring Club. The ride is part of our 'training' for Lands End to John O'Groats, which we really haven't done a lot of. Anyway, people were friendly and seemed happy to chat about our new Thorns and thought that three weeks was a good length of time to do our upcoming trip and still make it feel like a holiday. Beautiful day and nice not to navigate ourselves for a change.

As we started cycling after lunch, a regulart called Richard Philpott cycled past and introduced himself. More interesting than the fact that we're probably not related is he said that according to a London University study into geographic origins of last names, the Philpott's came from Kent, which is where we were cycling.

You can see a pretty cool map illustrating where Philpott's were in 1881 here