"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:18:50 +0100, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

Can we decide to call it 'Faversham' please, rather than Brogdale, or
Bogdale as I'm sure some will accidentally write/say? Brogdale
does not appear on my 1:50000 OS map for a start. It may well
be that it's a commercial name rather than a historic/geographic one
(can anyone who lives locally confirm?).

It's a historic site, Philip, appearing on Victorian mapping.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ (do an address search there, for the
postcode ME13 8XZ ) or, on currrent mapping, http://tinyurl.com/pbw5

Thanks, Dave, for filling that small gap in my knowledge ... :-)

Brogdale seems to be a former privately owned estate but now it's
owned (or run) by the Brogdale Horticultural Trust. It seems to be of
National importance horticulturally, being the home of the National
Fruit Collections. Here's another link covering this aspect (I posted
the Trust's own website address in my previous message):
http://www.foodloversbritain.com/org...ation-560.html

And the station is a darn
site nearer to Faversham than Gravesend is to Gravesend,
if you see what I mean. And it was always called "Faversham" in the
good old days when all these stations appeared in the Monthly Weather
Report. And, and, and ....

Hehe, try telling that to the BBC Weather presenters, who were saying
"Brogdale in North Kent" this afternoon on News 24 (no mention of
Faversham at all).

All the more reason not to call it Brogdale, then :-)

Brogdale is a mere 1.2 miles SSW of Faversham Town
Hall (albeit in open country) but in view of the site's apparent
National importance, it's possible that both names will be used in the
media. Faversham Brogdale? I'll go with the flow...

Well, in my corner, it will be "Faversham" when used as a passing
reference, and "the station run by the Brogdale Horticultural Trust
at (or, perhaps, adjacent to) Faversham" in any detailed discussion.

The Met Office's use of geographical names over the years has not
exactly been a model of consistency, although it is likely that they have
had to submit to external directives in respect of naming sites at, for
example, international airports and RAF stations. One small example ...
the site we all know and love called Barbourne was practically in the
middle of Worcester, whereas the one called "Bedford" is six miles
north of the town in the parish of Thurleigh. Other (one-time)
sites closer to Bedford, but still not in Bedford itself, were called by
the name of the nearest village (e.g. Cardington, Goldington), while
other sites in Worcester were called Worcester (Perdiswell) and
Worcester (Cornmeadow).

Philip Eden