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]

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


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