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Trivia: Stations with non-geographical names
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dan4291
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Allens West, situated on the outskirts of Eaglescliffe, apparently named after a naval stores depot it served during WW2 but has no meaning to the area around it now.
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Actually, seems that Pomona wasn't named after the 1857 art exhibition at Old Trafford (White City) which was held on part of Manchester's Royal Botanical Gardens site but was a change of name for the one-time nearby 'Cornbrook Strawberry Botanical Gardens'.
More here...
www.theguardian.com
More here...
Pomona: the lost island of Manchester
The decline of Pomona Island in central Manchester has created a rare oasis that deserves to become an Eden Project for the north
Lloyds siding
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Named after the massive rabbit warren that was next to the station...and I mean massive.
Similarly Wigan North Western and various Midlands.
Lloyds siding
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Hall Road is named after Hall Road, on which the station is situated, which leads as a long fairly straight road (it becomes a private track/public footpath) to Little Crosby where Crosby Hall is sited. Hall Road station was built at the request of Joseph Gardner (a Liverpool merchant): the Lancashire and Yorkshire owned the Liverpool-Southport line and refused his request on the grounds that there was not a sufficient population nearby...so Joseph built 5 more houses in the area, and the company relented.
Freshfield is named after Thomas Fresh, who proposed a new station and manure siding (sic) to be placed close to his house in Formby. He donated the land to the railway company. Fuller details and picture of the blue plaque on Thomas Fresh's house is on Formby Civic Society website http://www.formbycivicsociety.org.uk/residents/blue-plaque-for-thomas-fresh
Thomas Fresh has his own wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fresh
Not really a high end development....more the bottom end....
Which is a complete misnomer as Wallgate is both further north and west than North Western!
But as you say, it's one of those historical relics that remains into the present day. Not many of those left anymore!
Western Sunset
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Rivers, rather than human settlements:
Dovey Junction
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Victoria station is actually named after the nearby Victoria Street and not the Queen. So it is more geographic than one might think!
WesternBiker
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Although, it has found its way into the postal address as a place (a mate of mine just having moved there), largely through recent housing developments. But despite having a chapel and a shop, it doesn't have village status.
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When originally opened, Nelson in Lancashire was named after a pub in the settlement of Marsden. Named to avoid confusion with Marsden in Yorkshire, the area slowly took on the name from the station and is now known as Nelson. The Nelson Inn that gave it the new name being long-gone.
So another name that initially wasn't geographic, but ended up being so.
So another name that initially wasn't geographic, but ended up being so.
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IIRC the depot was known nationally as RNSD Eaglescliffe - and as a naval stores depot it wasn't fully closed until 1997. So that will be in many local peoples memories. Allens West may well have been its postal address, but not it’s name.
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I've had a look at this list and I think that there's at least one mistake that I know of.
Cross Keys (or Crosskeys, depending on which version you use) is named after the village of that name. I'm not aware of a pub of that name there, but it's not impossible that there was once. It's also identified as (Newport), which won't impress many of my friends at Cross Keys RFC!!
pdeaves
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The source (https://www.sinfin.net/railways/stations/pubs.html) states that the pub is now The Solar Strand Hotel and that the village took its name from the pub. I will leave it to others to determine if that is correct or not!
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Well, well, well ... you learn something everyday! Thank you.
Lloyds siding
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Yes indeed! I often log-off after a long haul through the threads thinking: 'Well, that's taught me a lesson!'Thanks. You live and learn.
As I often say, ‘everyday is a school day’ on these forums.
matchmaker
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The Solar Strand Hotel - notorious for appearing on Four in a Bed a few years ago! The owner Gary wore a top hat all the time, was obsessed with technology, and couldn't poach an egg! I'm not sure if it still exists - there were plans in 2020 to demolish it and build houses.
pdeaves
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Google Maps states 'permanently closed' on the marker (https://goo.gl/maps/Kkhdg7PR8tMHnjSY7)
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London Waterloo and quite a few railway and metro stations in Paris (Austerlitz, Iéna, Solferino, or even Magenta) are named after actual places; but these names do not relate directly in any way to the areas where the stations are located. We could call that Napoleonic naming.
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Living in Waterloo (Merseyside) I know what you mean.
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There is no such place as New Pudsey (although Monty Python think it's the centre of the universe)
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Grant you that, but surely the "New" in the station name simply means that it's the "New" (i.e. post 1967) station for Pudsey (there were once others), and Pudsey very much is a placename, being a long established town in West Yorkshire.
The place name etymology for Pudsey serms to be a little uncertain, but apparently the placename dates back to at least the time of the Domesday Book in the late 11th century and might possibly mean "Pudoc's Island".
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Bournville is named after a bar of chocolate.
You'll be telling us York is named after the Yorkie next.
Shimbleshanks
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But there is a district of London that goes by that name (named after the Crystal Palace when it was re-erected there after the Great Exhibition)...
There is a village called Valley (Y Falli in Welsh). Though no evidence of a valley really; the area is quite low-lying.
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Was craven arms named after the pub then the town was named craven arms afterwards, or are there similar anomalies
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