Goring-By-Sea - Why?

[billio]

I was once told that Dorking used to be Darking until the Ordnance Survey misspelt it on the map, but I've never been able to corroborate that one, so may have been the victim of a wind-up.

Yes I remember a time many years ago when one platform had "Boxhill and Westhamble" and the other platform had "Boxhill and Westhumble".

 

[Clip]

I know we had someone who wanted to go to Alton Towers and actually got sold a ticekt to Alton as that is what they asked the ticket clerk. It wasnt till they got to Alton that they realised it wasnt anywhere close to Alton Towers

 

[Eagle]

Just a thought - from Manchester you can catch a train two different Adlington stations, one North near Chorley and one South near Macclesfield. I wonder how many people have ended up at the wrong one?

You can get a train to two of the three Whitchurches from Cardiff Central (may have been all three during Wales and West years). Also, because of the one Heart of Wales service that starts at Cardiff, you can also get a direct train to both Garths.

Of course the biggest confusion is probably the Gillinghams; both of which can appear as destinations in their respective halves of Waterloo.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

To refer back to the early query of the suffix of Goring-by-Sea, what about the name of Ashton-under-Lyne in Tameside.?

Lyne is a very small community (population 233) in south-west Denmark on the peninsula of Jutland.....and nowhere near to the town where the current extension of the Manchester Metrolink is heading at the current time.

 

[starlightEXPRESS]

Yes I remember a time many years ago when one platform had "Boxhill and Westhamble" and the other platform had "Boxhill and Westhumble".

...and of course it's now "Box Hill and Westhumble".

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/bxw/details.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Box_hill_and_westhumble_station_2007.JPG

 

[tsr]

...and of course it's now "Box Hill and Westhumble".

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/bxw/details.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Box_hill_and_westhumble_station_2007.JPG

After much debate, yes, that's the name that's been decided, and of course in place.

Most local residents pronounce it with a slight gap between the two words, anyway - "Box Hill" is pretty accurate.

 

[1018509]

On the Paddington Line towards Slough, Iver station is in the centre of the village of Richings Park about a mile or so away from Iver village!!

 

[dvboy]

I seem to remember in the film Lord of the Flies, Piggy explaining that Camberley used to be called Cambridge Town and was renamed to avoid confusion with Cambridge.

 

[curly42]

Stroud and Strood have been known to cause confusion.

 

[6Gman]

Not forgetting Gillingham (with a hard G) in Dorset and Gillingham (pronounced Jillingham) in Kent, and yes people do occasionally go to the wrong station.

At Pontypridd once I overheard a confusion between Keele (Staffs) and Kiel (not in Staffs!).

 

[stut]

And moving over to France, the RER has both Roissy (the French name for CDG airport) and Poissy, which is knon to cause confusion through the sound-mangling ticket booth microphones.

Perhaps the oddest one for me was trying to buy a ticket at Harwich International from Cambridge to Baldock. When they started quoting me fares in the £30 region, with peak restrictions, I queried it - they'd heard "Bognor"...

 

[Rich McLean]

There are also two Wellingtons, one near taunton, and one near telford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perhaps the oddest one for me was trying to buy a ticket at Harwich International from Cambridge to Baldock. When they started quoting me fares in the £30 region, with peak restrictions, I queried it - they'd heard "Bognor"...

Seeing this posting of mistaken destinations, this takes me back to the late 1970's when I was at Stockport station and wished to travel the short journey to Deansgate with my twin sons. This was in the days when pre-printed tickets showing destinations were still available and were available in racks for the use of the booking-office clerks. Fortunately, I looked at the tickets before boarding the train, as the pre-printed destination stated DAWLISH, but the price printed on these tickets which was the correct price from Stockport to Deansgate. The clerk had accidentally reached into the wrong section of the rack.

Needless to say, I gave him back these tickets for re-issuing, but it would have been good to have just bought a second set of the correct tickets and retained the incorrect ones...which would have been the cheapest ever priced tickets from Stockport to Dawlish..

 

[Eagle]

There are also two Wellingtons, one near taunton, and one near telford

One doesn't have a station, though. (There's also a Wellington midway between Hereford and Ludlow.)

 

[Scotty]

One doesn't have a station, though. (There's also a Wellington midway between Hereford and Ludlow.)

And New Zealand...