Nick Whitelegg wrote: > As an aside I'm quite surprised at that, as almost all places ending > in "hurst" in the UK are south of the M4 and east of two degrees west.
That sort of factoid is surely what OpenStreetMap was invented for. :) The origin of Fairhursts is quite starkly regional, though: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=fairhurst cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bomb-dropped-on-St-Helens-Town-Centre-tp5729428p5729469.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb