The Knowhere Guide

The Knowhere Guide was a crowd-sourced online guide to British towns. It was originally a guide to the skate boarding scene in the UK[1] and was founded in 1994.[2] It is quoted by British guide books, such as Rough Guides, as a recommended source of online information.[3][4][5] The guide includes 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 the then MP, Laura Moffatt stated "we should have the ability to take things down.[7] It has also been blamed for encouraging illegal skateboarding in Halesowen.[8]

As of April 2022, search functionality is present, and pages for individual towns can be edited.[9]

References
  1. Page 176, The Vicar's Guide: Life and Ministry in the Parish, by David Ison
  2. Jimbo Wales: Wikipedia servers in UK? No way, not with YOUR libel law, The Register, Andrew Orlowski, August 2012
  3. Rough Guide to England
  4. Rough Guide to Britain
  5. The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands
  6. Page 514, for Electronic Cartography By Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh
  7. Website used to slate Crawley, Mid Sussex Times, 8 May 2009
  8. Cheeky skateboarders snub official skatepark, Halesowen News
  9. The Knowhere Guide


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