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Ken Wheatley · December 6th 10, 03:53 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2010-12-05 21:32:40 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2010\12\04 22:01, Neil Williams wrote:
On Dec 4, 3:34 pm, Basil wrote:

No, Stansted Airport has an owner, and they own its spelling, unlike
the English language which we all own.

Stansted Airport is an airport located near a village called Stansted
(Mountfitchet), with that spelling. Arguably the people who live
there get to define what the village is called, and the airport's name
derives from that...

The fact that the airport is not called Stansted Mountfitchet
Airport completely undermines your argument.

The village (small town really) was always called Stansted until the
airport got big enough for the residents to want to distinguish themselves
from it for various reasons. That included, ISTR, renaming the station.

Well, as I said earlier, the Mountfitchet bit was definitely there in
1611. I've lived near the village since '79 and I've always known the
Mountfitchet part. The station, of course, did not gain it until 1990
or so.