Also, as someone mentioned it - Scotch Corner is *not* the junction of
Knightsbridge and Brompton Road (also Sloane Street) on the A4 -
that's Scotch House. Scotch Corner is quite a distance from there -
it's the Junction up the A1 and the A66 just South of Darlington -
around 240 miles away from Scotch House. I've heard Scotch House
wrongly called Scotch Corner quite a number of times on traffic news
though!

Scotch House used to be the shop at that junction (now Burberrys). The
junction itself may once have been known as Scotch House Corner, but it
*is*
now known as Scotch Corner.
The BBC site has a traffic cam called "A4 Knightsbridge / Scotch Corner",
and it's also mentioned at the Visit London (ex London Tourist Board)
site:
"Opposite, on Scotch Corner, you'll find Burberry"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/j...ps/040261.html
http://www.visitlondon.com/html/inde...pgd=59&rcd=329

Maybe so. I still reckon they're all wrong :-) My A-Z still calls it
Scotch House (and that's the 2003 edition as well).

Anyway, it doesn't bother me, as I always cut through Beauchamp Place/Pont
Street/Chesham Place/Belgrave Square/Chapel St, and then up around Hyde Park
Corner when heading into Central London on the A4 - saves all that queuing
up to Scotch Corner (or whatever it's called). Even though there's an
underpass at the end of all the queues I still find it quicker on the vast
majority of occasions to go via Belgave Square.

Peter