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
- 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
- The Knowhere Guide