Aaaaargh!
My great pleasure as a child was to cycle around the countryside near my
home town, Northampton, in the east midlands of England. The villages had
fine old names, some of them colorful and curious: Yardley Gobion,
Bugbrooke, Chapel Brampton, Stoke Bruerne.
Well, one of those villages — it boasted the part-excavated site of a Roman
villa — was Buttock’s Booth, three or four miles out of town on the
Kettering road. Browsing on Mapquest last night, I discovered to my dismay
that Buttock’s Booth has DISAPPEARED!
Is this yet another example of Geographical Correctness? — like all those
American names with “squaw” in them being scrubbed from the maps? Or what?
I note from Google that Buttock’s Booth still shows up in bus timetables and
the like. So why doesn’t Mapquest know about it?