please empty your brain below

Did this post come 6 days late?!
Most interesting,DG, thankyou.
So Great Burgh will have been the source of the unusually named Burgh Heath, presumably. Or perhaps the other way round.
Houses in the pic are semi-detached so not all housing in Nork is detached.

dg writes: 60%.
This was an interesting post, but the level of fame of David Walliams is open to interpretation, if anyone still knows who he is, say 20 years after his death, then you can start to evaluate his level of fame, most 'celebrities' tend to grow old with their audience, and don't cross into the following generations.
This was an interesting post, but... is the kind of picky, pedantic praise normally meted out to the writers on London Reconnections.

I described David Walliams as "ridiculously famous", a phrase which can be interpreted in a number of ways. My apologies that your interpretation displeased you.
I have to confess that I lived in the immediately adjacent connurbation for six years before I found out about N**k...

And, it still leaves me with a weird feeling every time I go (good fish and chip shop), or pass by, 'there'. How can such a big place not feature on any destination signeage - bizzare?
"Banstead instead joined with Tandridge" (opening para). Since the present-day borough is Reigate and Banstead, was the joining with Tandridge an intermediate stage, or am I missing something?

dg writes: No, I was missing something. Fixed, thanks.
This was an interesting post, but...

you failed to mention that some of the roads have a Perrinesque feel about them. When visiting someone in Burns Drive I used to park in Chaucer Close.

Indeed, even today, I still can't take a place with a name like Nork seriously as I go through it and forever have visions of Reginald Perrin striding along its well kept streets.
This was an interesting post, but...

you failed to mention that the railway line at Epsom Downs was curtailed by several hundred metres in the 80's when the current terminus was built, thereby rendering it even less useful than previously.

The tedious Bunbury Way housing development was built on the original formation. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3227852,-0.2387623,490m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en I'm not quite sure why it has two mini roundabouts.

My sister lives nearby, but in Banstead itself rather than Nork. She has never told us about Nork Park even though it appears to be a short stroll from her gaff. Will have to investigate, thanks for the tip. She did tell us about the Seine Rigger fish and chip pla(i)ce which must be in Nork propper.
“shiny objects that no home genuinely needs” – the perfect shop to find a wedding present for the well-heeled couple.
And on the 'what would they call it?' theme, I guess they would call this one Epsom, as being much the most famous place in the borough, and also reasonably central to it.
And I thought I knew this area like the back of my hand!

Thanks for enlightening me!
A piece of trivia about Nork. Professional northerner Paul Heaton, he of the Beautiful South and The Housemartins, attended Nork Park Secondary School during his teen years. The school - later renamed 'The Beacon School', sits, on part of the former Nork estate. Unfortnately, Heaton actually lived in Chipstead, but nevertheless, I nominate him as a more worthy (honorary) Nork personage, in preference to Walliams, who actually commuted to Reigate Grammar School.
This was an interesting post. No buts.
OH COME ON!!

"There are no plans to rename the two stations Nork West and Nork North, which is a shame, because it'd be fun to see Nork on the destination board at Victoria."

Could have been

"..because it'd be fun to see a pait of Norks together on a map".

No?
"it'd be fun to see a pait of Norks together on a map"

Yes, indeed.
The punchline that never was.

Deliberate DG teasing or genuine boob?
drD,

Congrats, quite probably the funniest comment I've read. Glad I wasn't drinking coffee at the time...
Is this the start of an occasional series? Clearly we could do with some up-to-date information about Pratts Bottom.
I've seen the word "Nork" so often that I don't know what is real any more
This was an interesting post, but..

.."Norks" have a pleasant alternative meaning. At least according to my pal who is ex-RAF, and originally from Rotherham.
You've been close a few times but now you've actually included my place of work. Just to say our HQ building has a big round bit, but is actually shaped like a four-fngered hand, with wings pushing back from the rotunda. Great post, thanks.
It took a long time to get to the Norks gag. Are DG readers really too polite to make it? (Except Geoff of course!)
"if you like interwar detached houses..." followed by pic of semis is the bit of the post I was referring to DG.
B - At no point in the post, including the sentence you quote, do I claim that "all housing in Nork is detached".

If you'd prefer a photo of detached houses, here's one you can print out and use to cover up the offending semi-detached houses in the post.



DG - you seem somewhat feisty today....
Sorry, DG, I'm behind with my reading. Those Who Like Buses either will or will not be interested in the planned diversion of route 164 to serve Nork in 1961. The story forms the postscript at http://www.red-rf.com/red-rf_events/worcester_park_2008/event_pages/the_routes/164.aspx - this is itself rather an old page now, and the event is long past.
I lived in Epsom for 20 years. I went to school near Nork. I had friends from Nork. But I really couldn't tell you where it is, or where it starts or finishes. I think of it as part of the huge and equally ill defined area that I would know as "Banstead".

Thanks for enlightening me!










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