Is Durnish the smallest place with a station named after it?

[philthetube]

Durnish has, according to Julie Walters, a population of 28, is this the smallest hamlet with a named station?

 

[tsr]

Many spring to mind. For example, Tulloch, Corrour, Altnabreac and Buckenham (hopefully I've got those right in terms of order of population, least to greatest).

Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure anybody actually permanently lives at Tulloch, so that may fall into the "Berney Arms" category of stuff being vaguely nearby, but there being essentially no definite settlement served by the station.

 

[Parallel]

Portsmouth Arms is also very sparsely populated. If I remember correctly, it only includes the old station house, the saw mill, the pub and about 3 cottages.

 

[philthetube]

looking further it seems as if popultaion figures are not published for these places.

 

[philthetube]

Portsmouth Arms is also very sparsely populated. If I remember correctly, it only includes the old station house, the saw mill, the pub and about 3 cottages.

Portsmouth arms appears to be named after the pub and not a village.

 

[Lucan]

Portsmouth arms appears to be named after the pub and not a village.

So what is the pub's population?

 

[PHILIPE]

So what is the pub's population?

More at Happy Hour.

 

[PHILIPE]

Dovey Junction. No settlement at all and in middle of Nature resrve.

 

[37 418]

It's actually spelled Duirinish , although most conductors pronounce it Durnish i.e. rhymes with furnish.

Altnabreac springs to mind, along with Berney Arms.

 

[ijmad]

More at Happy Hour.

Apart from one or two regulars who are there most nights, I suspect they wouldn't count as permanent population.

 

[steamybrian]

Doleham and Shippea Hill are named after the nearest farms. The former has only a short row of cottages outside the "station" so population would be less than 28.
Swale is named after a river estuary. There are few (if any?) houses within a mile of the station.
Berney Arms is in the middle of marshland (? nature reserve) and now only serves a pub (possibly now closed). If so then population is zero

 

[snowball]

Doleham and Shippea Hill are named after the nearest farms. The former has only a short row of cottages outside the "station" so population would be less than 28.

As I recently remarked in another thread, Shippea Hill Farm is not the nearest farm to Shippea Hill station.

(At least if you judge by the position of the farm buildings. It might for all I know be the farm that owns the nearest fields to the station.)

 

[Dr Hoo]

Going back to the original question, surely to be named after a 'hamlet' implies a place where people live.
There are, of course, some 'places' where 'nobody' probably lives. I am thinking about British Steel Redcar or Falls of Cruachan. One might even argue that stations like Ardrossan Harbour are not there to serve the population of Ardrossan in the way that the town's other two stations do.

 

[Kite159]

How many people live in Dunrobin Castle these days?

 

[Llanigraham]

How many people are live at Builth Road? It is not part of Builth Wells, being across the river and over a mile from there, and not that near any other settlement.

 

[unlevel42]

Roman Bridge - Pont Rufenig, has a house.

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Sugar Loaf .....

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Dovey Junction. No settlement at all and in middle of Nature resrve.

Plenty of basking adders in season ...

 

[Elecman]

Dent, given that there is only the old station houses ( used as holiday lets) at the station and the Hamlet of Dent being 4 miles away

 

[higthomas]

Victoria only had a population of one; although that swelled to two on nine occasions!

 

[EM2]

Dent, given that there is only the old station houses ( used as holiday lets) at the station and the Hamlet of Dent being 4 miles away

But the question in the OP is about the smallest place with a station named after it. And as the village of Dent has a population of about 800, I don't think it'll win.

 

[randyrippley]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton_and_Came_Halt_railway_station (now closed)

No houses, just a golf course, two churches and a bit of landed gentry
named after the churches of Winterbourne Monkton and Winterbourne Came
http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#367,88,1
The corrresponding hamlets were pretty much abandoned, just leaving the isolated churches.

 

[Kite159]

How many people are live at Builth Road? It is not part of Builth Wells, being across the river and over a mile from there, and not that near any other settlement.

Surprisingly there are a few houses located around the station so it isn't as remote as say Sugar Loaf or some of the other rural stations on that line [i.e. Llangynllo]

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Pont-Y-Pant?

A few scattered building around but no ha,mlet or village to speak of.

 

[Bertie the bus]

There are small pretty tiny places on the Cumbrian Coast. Foxfield for one, though I can't find its population.

 

[Llanigraham]

Surprisingly there are a few houses located around the station so it isn't as remote as say Sugar Loaf or some of the other rural stations on that line [i.e. Llangynllo]

But Sugar Loaf is not actually a "place" other than the site of a Halt with no settlement, where as Builth Road is a recognised geographic place with a few houses and a pub.
(You might note I live in the area)

 

[tsr]

Come to think of it, and thinking laterally (and in a rather silly way), I'm not sure if Battersea Park has a population, as such...

 

[AndyNLondon]

Come to think of it, and thinking laterally (and in a rather silly way), I'm not sure if Battersea Park has a population, as such...

Given the number of parks where you can spot tents pitched (presumably by homeless people) in secluded corners, I wouldn't be sure of that

However:
St Albans Abbey: I don't think the abbey (now St Albans Cathedral) has had a resident population since the dissolution of the monasteries
Denham Golf Club: (my observation about parks being less likely to apply to a rural golf course) there's probably nobody living there, unless the club has cottages for grounds keeps or something like that.

 

[hexagon789]

It's actually spelled Duirinish , although most conductors pronounce it Durnish i.e. rhymes with furnish.

Altnabreac springs to mind, along with Berney Arms.

I always thought is was Dyoor-in-ish. I agree Berney Arms must be a contended or Shippea Hill perhaps?

 

[3141]

You just beat me to Denham Golf Club, so that leaves me with Newhaven Harbour.