On Jul 24, 7:06*pm, Ian Jelf wrote:
In message , Christopher A.
Lee writes



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.

More correctly, the village/locality/whatever was named from an actual
"row" of houses alongside the Great West Road on Hounslow Heath. * The
locality was apparently once especially notorious for highwaymen and
footpads.......

Might this be why the highwayman in the Beggars' Opera is named
Captain Macheath?

Andy