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 Völlr , meaning "Assembly Field". Nowadays the word refers to the Douglas-based House of Keys an... [More]