Seven Telltale Signs You're In Catterick

What makes the North Yorkshire garrison town a unique place to live and work? Here are the seven ways to tell you're in Catterick. 

1. Everyone drives straight over the mini roundabouts in Colburn. It seems the rules of the Highway Code do not apply in North Yorkshire as drivers totally ignore the two white roundabouts between the fire station and the white shops. 

2. You see recruits walking back to camp from Tesco carrying ironing boards. 

3. No one bats an eyelid at the random peacock outside the Richmond Centre. Whether it's chickens on the Teesdale estate or pheasant crossing Horne Rd, it seems our feathered friends are everywhere. 

4. Sheep just wander onto the bird estate in Scotton. 

5. You see more people riding horses than bikes on the cycles paths. 

6. You wake up to the sound of gunfire and don't think anything of it. 

7. You see the Gurkhas getting a lesson on how to cross the road.