[Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre

[Steve Chilton]

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:richard at systemed.net] 
Sent: 08 October 2012 14:26
To: talk-gb at 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





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