Richard Another version (from CASA @UCL): http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=FAIRHURST&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name
Cheers Steve -----Original Message----- From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] Sent: 08 October 2012 14:26 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb