On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:42:39 -0700 (PDT), Andy Kirkham
wrote:

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?

There are lots of period references, as well as later stories. I
remember reading one as a boy in the 1950s.
Andy