"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
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
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). 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...
Just to tidy up ... I note that it appears on current OS mapping, but
it is un-named on my 1:50000 OS map which was published in
the 1980s. Presumably the OS map changed after the farm changed
hands (it was a MAFF research station from the early-1950s
until 1991 when it was sold to the present owners). It would be
interesting to know how this happens ... I should imagine that a certain
amount of lobbying goes on. Before the government bought it, it was
simply Brogdale Farm. A google search suggests that it was such
as early as the 1840s.
I'm told that the official name of the climatological station there
is simply "Faversham".
Philip Eden