Author Topic: Towns whose name writes a cheque the actual place can't cash (Read 7250 times)

rower40 · « **Reply #75 on:** 05 September, 2009, 10:01:47 am »

(Halfway between 'rant' and follow-on from the above stuff about Parkway...)

The Great Western Railway (1833-1946) named any station that served a town/village/hamlet, but wasn't actually located IN said town/village/hamlet, with the word "Road". E.g. Bodmin Road, St Columb Road in Cornwall.

It evokes a gentler age, when horse-and-trap would be used to convey the passengers onwards.

Why-o-Why-o-Why does that have to be replaced with "PARKWAY"? Gits.

PeterM · « **Reply #76 on:** 05 September, 2009, 09:49:50 pm »

Wigtwizzle (OK, more a village than a town)

Deano · « **Reply #77 on:** 06 September, 2009, 09:48:11 pm »

Houghton-le-Spring.
Summerhouse.
Woodland.

Cunobelin · « **Reply #78 on:** 06 September, 2009, 09:55:48 pm »

Entirely appropriate...

Bank in the New Forest

Giraffe · « **Reply #79 on:** 12 September, 2009, 08:43:47 pm »

Well, I've been waiting for the obvious one: Braintree - couldn't even write the cheque!

SX.

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