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Mayday at Stinky Bay: local place nicknames added to rescuers' tool
The Guardian
|May 09, 2024
From Stinky Bay to Sausage Island local nicknames for UK landmarks have long been a source of amusement. But in an emergency the last thing rescuers need to grapple with is how to find Crazy Mary's Hole.
Now Ordnance Survey (OS) has added thousands of these unofficial names, for cliffs, caves, sandbanks, coastal car parks and buildings, to a database for the emergency services.
The OS Vernacular Names Tool (VNT) holds the nicknames of more than 9,000 locations, many of which were created by local people.
Stinky Bay refers to Pentire on the north Cornwall coast, Sausage Island is a popular rock for jumping off on the coast of north-west Wales, while Crazy Mary's Hole is a deep ravine in Pakefield, Suffolk, said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman whose husband was lost at sea.
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