Keynsham

Keynsham is the stretch of road between Bristol and Bath where the traffic slows down and people who couldn't afford either end up living. For years its greatest cultural export was a man on the radio spelling the name out letter by letter, which tells you the place has always suspected nobody could quite locate it. It had a chocolate factory that built the town, right up until an American conglomerate swore blind it would keep the place open and then shut it within a week of being allowed to buy it. And when a thirty-room Roman villa turned up under the ground here, they finished putting the Victorian cemetery straight over the top, because in Keynsham even the dead get priority over anything interesting.