Junctions named after defunct landmarks
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Re: Junctions named after defunct landmarks
The junction between the A371 and the road to Holton is called "Jack Whites Gibbet" even though the unfortunate man was hung there and the gibbet subsequently removed several hundred years ago.
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Re: Junctions named after defunct landmarks
Please don't forget that we are trying to capture all junction names on the SABRE Wiki, so if people could add them there, it would be very useful as them being in a forum post will mean that the information will quite rapidly just get lost.
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Re: Junctions named after defunct landmarks
Near me, where the A5190 crosses the A460, is the optimistically named 'Mill Green Island'.
The mill itself is long defunct - though happily the buildings remain, some distance from the junction - and the nature reserve of the same name is even further away. The new 'designer outlet' is right next to the island, so that may influence future naming strategies.
For most locals it's still 'Tip Island', due to the continuing and looming presence of an enormous landfill/recycling facility which has long since turned an old opencast mine very convex...
The mill itself is long defunct - though happily the buildings remain, some distance from the junction - and the nature reserve of the same name is even further away. The new 'designer outlet' is right next to the island, so that may influence future naming strategies.
For most locals it's still 'Tip Island', due to the continuing and looming presence of an enormous landfill/recycling facility which has long since turned an old opencast mine very convex...
Re: Junctions named after defunct landmarks
The area around the junction of the A3062 and B3110 in Bath is known as Glasshouse, but I'm not sure whether it refers to the actual junction (a pair of mini roundabouts) or the general area. Any glasshouse has long since disappeared.
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Re: Junctions named after defunct landmarks
The Uncle Charlie's interchange is one of South Africa's best-known interchanges. (See map here). In the 1960's it was an ordinary cross-road with a second-rate restaurant called "Uncle Charlies" in one of the corners. If you were going southwards, Johannesburg's built-up area ended at Uncle Charlies. For the people of Soweto, it was the point where you turned off the main road to get to the township. Uncle Charlies restaurant has long since gone, but the junction has adopted the name.