Do you know something unusual about a place, building or street? Some odd factoid, rumour or tidbit? Share it here, and if you're lucky someone will follow up with more info on your place.

Use the arrows and the zoom on the map to browse to places, and click on the red pins to see more info about each place. Go to Add Your Place to create a new place.

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"Hello, and welcome to YourHistoryHere, the place where you can share your knowledge about those unusual places, buildings or things that make places interesting to live. This site is on limited circulation at the moment, and is only supposed to be a mySociety demo, not a big posh project like PledgeBank. It may not be obvious, but the most important feature of YourHistoryHere is the construction of an underlying system for collecting and sharing geographic annotations in an open syndicated format, so you can use the yummy local data people leave for your own purposes. We're building two sites that show how this can be useful, this one and Placeopedia.com, and we'd love to share the code for other ideas. Anyone want to build WhereIHadMyFirstKiss.com? Tom Steinberg, mySociety Director - 23/08/2005"

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Miss

Look for person

added 17th Aug 2008 by Nicolai Cirus Scarlett | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
tibas

my home town

added 17th Aug 2008 by Nicolai Cirus | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Municipal Town Hall of Sykies

This is the municipal town hall of Sykies

added 20th Jun 2008 by darloonia | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Haifa

A city located on Israel's costline

added 10th May 2008 by Galit | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Lansdowne

A very beautiful place in garhwal region, india.

added 12th Jan 2008 by Love Kumar | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Bhondsi

A hill top hidden temple in a green forest belt near Gurgaon. Very nice cycling track away from traffic and very quick get away from city. There is a lake near the temple where you can relax and enjoy the untouched beauty of nature with white swans.

added 8th Jan 2008 by Love Kumar | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Start Point Lighthouse

Start Point Lighthouse

added 13th Aug 2006 by David Ansell | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Buncefield Oil Depot

Site of the infamous Buncefield Oil Depot which exploded to dramatic effect in December 2005.

added 6th Aug 2006 by Georgina Hayes | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Cambridge Railway Station

In the distant past, maps used to include railway stations.

added 25th Jul 2006 by David MacKay | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Croghan Hill

Its an extinct Volcano. Pope JPII flew over during his 1979 visit....

added 19th May 2006 by Joe Cleary | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Spread Eagle Public House

On the site of the current Lidls supermarket there once stood the Spread Eagle bikers pub.

added 4th Apr 2006 by Louise Hamilton | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
WestLeigh guild

this used to be a playing field, ruby pitch and informal BMX track. Heavily used by me between 1980 and 1985. It is now a housing estate.

added 3rd Apr 2006 by john | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Jaw Bones

There is a road-side feature here called the Jaw Bones.

added 22nd Feb 2006 by Rob | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Tinker's Corner

This junction is referred to locally as Tinker's Corner.

added 22nd Feb 2006 by Rob | read more | 13 responses | abusive?
Sheep!

There is a dangling sheep above Siop Yr Oen. Here's the reason why.

added 20th Feb 2006 by Alison | read more | 6 responses | abusive?

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