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The contrast he sought to draw with a gloomy Blighty was not subtle.

His 80,000-word account of the experience was found in an online auction won by amateur social-historian David Wilkins, who has now published it under the title Blighty or Bust.

Not far away is an earlier housing development that is even more redolent of Blighty: Foxhall Village.

Many folks come here from Blighty to break into America and give up if it doesn’t happen in a year or two.

The hottest rivalry in sailing heads across the pond to Old Blighty, where Sir Ben Ainslie and his British crew will face the tall task of defending home waters against Tom Slingsby and his crew of seemingly unbeatable Australians.