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

[Andy Robinson]

Neat site but seems somewhat inaccurate for very low number surnames.

Cheers
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Chilton [mailto:s.l.chilton at mdx.ac.uk]
> Sent: 08 October 2012 15:40
> To: Richard Fairhurst; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre
> 
> 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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