Trivia - named stations that were located outside their towns etc.

[PaulLothian]

Uphall station is in Livingston.

Uphill station is in the village of Uphall Station, now subsumed into Livingston. Livingston village, a couple of miles away, also spawned a separate village around its own railway station, called - you may have guessed this - Livingston Station.

 

[oglord]

So you are saying that it should have been renamed in 1974 in line with the local government reorganisation?

Of course not! Local government boundaries should never be used for general-purpose geography.

 

[TheDavibob]

Don’t think so? Falls under Chesterton which is a City suburb.

Not strictly, it's on the very eastern edge of Chesterton (which is indeed in the city). The local authority boundary is the busway/former St. Ives branch at that point and the entirety of Chesterton Sidings lies outside the city, strictly. Hopefully this map has the boundary on it. That said, the city boundaries are a mess, with the science park and a variety of chunks of new suburbs lying outside/across the boundaries.

 

[Fluclo]

Pembrey & Burry Port is about 2 miles from Pembrey (and in the centre of Burry Port)

 

[thenorthern]

Kings Norton station is in Cotteridge.

Interestingly Rugeley is in the District of Cannock Chase but Rugeley Trent Valley station is in the District of Lichfield. Strines station I think straddles the border between Greater Manchester and Derbyshire with one platform in each. Blythe Bridge I think is right next to the border between Staffordshire Moorlands District and the Borough of Stafford. Wedgwood works is in the Unitary Authority of Stoke-on-Trent but the station is in the Borough of Stafford

 

[Dr_Paul]

The boundaries of towns within London is a bit hard to determine, but it looks to me like Harrow-on-the-Hill is in the middle of Harrow (Harrow-on-the-Hill being a separate settlement a mile or so away, and funnily enough up on the hill!). While up the road, Harrow and Wealdstone station would arguably be far more appropriately named as simply Wealdstone, as it's not really near Harrow (the town).

Both Harrow on the Hill (Metropolitan) and Harrow and Wealdstone (LNWR) were originally called Harrow, the first changed its name in 1894, the second in 1897.

Looking at old OS maps, in the 1860s Wealdstone was a big house and a farm some way north of the LNWR Harrow station, but by the end of the century a settlement called Wealdstone had grown up around the station. In the 1860s, what we call Harrow today was just Harrow on the Hill with some development down towards where the Met station was subsequently built. Otherwise it was open fields. Until some way into the twentieth century there is no place just called Harrow on OS maps, despite having one and then another station of that name. I suspect that colloquially the name Harrow was in use for the broad area around Harrow on the Hill, and the stations were originally named on that basis.

 

[snowball]

Until some way into the twentieth century there is no place just called Harrow on OS maps, despite having one and then another station of that name.

Not to mention Harrow School since 1572.

 

[USBT]

Woodmansterne Station (on the Tattenham Corner line) is in Coulsdon. The closest station to Woodmansterne is the next station down, Chipstead.

 

[Wirewiper]

Midgham between Reading and Newbury on the Berks & Hants route (which doesn't go through Hampshire!) is not in Midgham village, but in Woolhampton. I've heard it claimed that the name was changed because of confusion between Woolhampton & Wolverhampton......

And just up from there on the same line is Aldermaston, which is at a location known as Aldermaston Wharf (blame the Kennet & Avon for that one!) and some distance from the actual village.

 

[Wirewiper]

Stretching things a bit, but Torquay station is located in Chelston, which at the time it was built in 1859 was a separate parish.

 

[Wirewiper]

OK while I am on a roll - Moreton station (Dorset) is over a mile from the village of the same name and is closer to the village of Crossways.

Incidentally St Nicholas Church in Moreton has a unique claim to fame; its windows are entirely of etched glass, after the original stained glass was completely blown out in 1940 by a stray bomb intended for a nearby army base. It is well worth seeing.

Also Elstree & Borehamwood - right in the middle of Borehamwood (just like the Studios), Elstree is separate village a mile away.

 

[Scotty]

Swineshead station is in Swineshead Bridge -Swineshead is up the road.
Rauceby is in Greylees.
Thorpe Culvert is a couple of miles outside Thorpe St Peter.
Havenhouse serves... nothing in particular.