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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Forfarian on Friday 05 December 25 14:09 GMT (UK)
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Has anyone ever heard of Cortland? (No, I didn't mean to search for it!)
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There's nothing with that spelling in my 1935 gazetteer, but there is a Courtland near Exmouth. But as a Scot I suspect that is of no interest ? :D
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I would never say anywhere was of no interest, so thank you for that.
It was just bizarre to be asked if I was looking for somewhere quite so obscure when I was searching for somewhere rather well known.
There seem to be several places called Courtland or Courtlands:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST0931
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST0705
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST1926
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SX9983
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST8869
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TQ3040
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TQ3832
all but one of which are in counties on the English Channel coast. There may of course be others that didn't come up in my search.
Doing a similar search using England produces an even more peculiar result. See attachment. And when I click on the suggested alternative there are no results!
The weird and wonderful ways of the internet :)