On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:48:33 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Christopher A. Lee wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:38:56 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Basil Jet wrote:

Several stations are named after pubs: IIRC the Angel pub at Angel is
not the original, which is gone.

Wasn't that a cake shop rather than a pub? Oh, i see it was a pub before
that.

Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,
which has not one but four stations named after it!

Heathrow was a village on Hounslow Heath, which gave its name to the
airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:He...War_II_Map.jpg

Firstly, i believe that was called Heath Row, not Heathrow, and secondly,

Not according to the map in the above URL.


the stations aren't named after the village, they're named after the
airport.

tom