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Thread #60464   Message #967499
Posted By: greg stephens
17-Jun-03 - 07:22 AM
Thread Name: BS: Oxymoron place names
Subject: RE: BS: Oxymoron place names
The nasty little estates round here(Cheshire,Staffordshire UK) are all called Badgers' Walk, Nightingale Close, Bishops Mews, Hawthorn Coppice etc etc. A likely story, as they say. Then there's the develoment on the canal near us with the notice "The Wharf: no mooring".
   I drove past a sign to Valley Hill the other day, which was more strictly oxymoronic. And the fact that you have to walk(or drive) up to get to the Downs in southern England must qualify.