For a couple of years, there appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth a place called Argleton. It was shown as being near Aughton, Lancs, just off the A59. It had a Liverpool postcode (L39), potentially annoying any local residents who might have preferred a Lancashire postcode, except that the only residents were likely to be field mice, rabbits and wild birds: it turns out that Argleton has never existed, and was in the middle of a few fields. It was removed by Google after a couple of years without a convincing explanation as to how it had come to be there in the first place, but if you're curious, some speculation can be found here.What a brilliant excuse!
"Where have you been?"
"The Argleton beer festival."
"But there's no such place as Argleton!"
"Then I can't have been to a beer festival."
Don't mapmakers put in ghost towns, places of interest etc. deliberately. If they spot someone else producing a map with the same 'ghost' they know that there has been a breach of copyright.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is a possible expanation. Another is that it was Aughton misspelt. But then, here's a website set up by Argletonians asserting they do exist.
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