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Extract from the St John's Travel Guides:
The trans-island A1 (and hourly bus #5 or #6 from Douglas) follows a deep twelve-mile-long furrow between the northern and southern ranges from Douglas to Peel. A hill at the crossroads settlement of
ST JOHNS
, nine miles along it, is the original site of
Tynwald
, the ancient Manx government, which derives its name from the Norse
Thing Vllr
, meaning "Assembly Field". Nowadays the word refers to the Douglas-based House of Keys and Legislative Council, but acts passed in the capital only become law once they have been proclaimed here on July 5 (ancient Midsummer's Day) in an annual open-air...
read the whole St John's Travel Guides...
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