The Knowhere Guide
The Knowhere Guide is a crowd-sourced online guide to British towns. It was originally a guide to the skateboarding scene in the UK.[1] The Guide was founded in 1994.[2] It is quoted by British guidebooks, such as Rough Guides, as a recommended source of online information.[3][4][5] The guide also included a fictional town known as "Chuffing Hell", which has been mistaken as a real town by commercial web based directories.[6]
The site's comments about the town of Crawley were seen to be so negative that local MP Laura Moffatt stated, "We should have the ability to take things down."[7] The site was also blamed for encouraging illegal skateboarding in Halesowen.[8] As of December 2023, the site is no longer available online.
References
[edit]- ^ Page 176, The Vicar's Guide: Life and Ministry in the Parish, by David Ison
- ^ Jimbo Wales: Wikipedia servers in UK? No way, not with YOUR libel law, The Register, Andrew Orlowski, August 2012
- ^ Rough Guide to England
- ^ Rough Guide to Britain
- ^ The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands
- ^ Page 514, for Electronic Cartography By Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh
- ^ Website used to slate Crawley, Mid Sussex Times, 8 May 2009
- ^ Cheeky skateboarders snub official skatepark, Halesowen News
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