A friend of mine: Rob Hindle has had a number of poetry collections published. His most recent was called "Neurosurgery in Iraq", and included poetry on a range of locations, including some from time spent living in Spain. A lot of his poetry is to do with place, and memory of place, and the connections with family members.
Some of the places near to where we live have names which would not be recognised by official map makers: they wouldn't be on the OS map... Local people though would recognise the names though... Perhaps it's a field or section of a wood, or a snicket / alleyway between two streets.
Without realising it, you probably do something similar...
The PEOPLE'S PLACE NAMES site has now been launched to try to capture some of these informal or vernacular place names....
It has been set up by Cardiff University.
Thanks to Steven Feldman for the tip-off to this site via Twitter.
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