The Knowhere Guide is a crowd-sourced online guide to British towns. It was originally a guide to the skateboarding scene in the UK.[1] The Guide was founded in 1994.[2] It is quoted by British guidebooks, such as Rough Guides, as a recommended source of online information.[3][4][5] The guide also included a fictional town known as "Chuffing Hell", which has been mistaken as a real town by commercial web based directories.[6]

The site's comments about the town of Crawley were seen to be so negative that local MP Laura Moffatt stated, "We should have the ability to take things down."[7] The site was also blamed for encouraging illegal skateboarding in Halesowen.[8] As of December 2023, the site is no longer available online.

References

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  1. ^ Page 176, The Vicar's Guide: Life and Ministry in the Parish, by David Ison
  2. ^ Jimbo Wales: Wikipedia servers in UK? No way, not with YOUR libel law, The Register, Andrew Orlowski, August 2012
  3. ^ Rough Guide to England
  4. ^ Rough Guide to Britain
  5. ^ The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands
  6. ^ Page 514, for Electronic Cartography By Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh
  7. ^ Website used to slate Crawley, Mid Sussex Times, 8 May 2009
  8. ^ Cheeky skateboarders snub official skatepark, Halesowen News