Recent Posts Tagged With 'place names'

• England is a place next to the Wirral

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 14:03 in England, maps, wirral, place names, multimap

  Here's a Multimap screengrab I took today:Is it just me, or does this map make it look like (the) Wirral and England are two neighbouring places? You can find the town of England just east of the Wirral...(For those who don't know, the Wirral is a pe...

• King's Cliffe, King's Cliff, Kings Cliff, Kingscliffe

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 10:56 in wikipedia, railways, apostrophe, place names, kings cliffe

  I've had another serendipitous Wikipedia discovery: the entry on Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire.As the entry says, this village is "variously King's Cliffe, King's Cliff, Kings Cliff, Kingscliffe".I don't have my gazetteer to hand, but both Google Ma...

• Too many Washingtons

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 15:20 in washington, mistake, place names, web story

  I had to change a live web story today because it described a certain UK-based company as being "US-based". The writer had seen on the company's website that its headquarters were in Washington and he assumed that meant Washington DC (or Washington s...

• Field Stile Road / Fieldstile Road

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 17:01 in signs, place names, southwold, fieldstile road

  While one English city has banned apostrophes from its street names "to avoid confusion", it seems that not everywhere in the UK is so worried about consistency in naming:Sorry about the awful picture quality, I took the photos in the dark with my ca...