Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Ed Avis wrote:
Sure (if you accept that the street sign put up by the council is
more authoritative than the Ordnance Survey's database, which
actually I doubt).
A quick glance at the local OS map shows me a street name that anyone in the
town would know was wrong (Crawborough Road, should be simply Crawborough)
and another that anyone with a rudimentary grasp of basic English would know
was wrong ("Grammer School Hill" - clearly nigel molesworth is alive and
well and working in Southampton). A few miles further afield there's a whole
misspelt hamlet. I wouldn't trust the OS's names as far as I could throw
Vanessa Lawrence.
Of course, here in Charlbury we correct the street signs too. The council
also initially put up a street sign saying "Crawborough Road". After
application of black marker pen it no longer says that. :)
I too have applied paint to an incorrect street sign erected as part of
a council tidy-up (aka wasting money left in the budget before the
year-end). I have also struggled with the council to persuade them that
a replacement sign was wrong - they quoted the OS name, saying 'that
must be right, it's Ordnance Survey'. I had to get the long-standing
members of the local parish council to persuade them that was wrong and
that the county council makes the decision on names not OS.
--
Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
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