On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:18:46 +0100, you wrote: >I did an address search (we use addressing software at work) so that I >could look the cottage up on the web and it turns out he property is >known to the Post Office as Deepmore Lock House. Odd when Deepmore >bridge is up near to Hatherton Junction. A quick Google found several >references to Deepmore Lock in assorted local authority documents. >Anyone know why this is? As well as having two names, it is also quite >unusual for a residential property in that it has its own unique >postcode. Not the the postman will go there very often I suspect ;-)
The Towpath Guide to the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, which goes into details of names in fascinating detail, just says: "The lock at Deptmore, or Deepmore, is the first of eleven that take the canal up to the summit level." There's no mention of the possible confusion here, or under Deepmore later on in the book. So all I can add is proof that it's not a recent phenomenon. -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though likely to die soon
