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Not as many as I'd have thought, but what about Bow St E15? Given its age, it seems strange that it does not lead to Bow. It may be a good place for lockdown (or up) exercise!
Ian J | 19.06.20 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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Well done. Take a Bow.
popartist | 19.06.20 - 7:24 a.m. | #
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You beat me to it popartist, so I will simply bow to DG's gazetteer knowledge.
Waterhouse | 19.06.20 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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Drat, you two beat me to it, however, neither of you explicitly said that you would bow down to DG's exceptionally good Googling ability.
I wonder if there are any others in different languages, after all it's only a three letter combination.
Ken | 19.06.20 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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Hippopotamus emergency!
When the Bow River flooded in June 2013, and 75,000 people were evacuated from Calgary, the giraffes at the zoo had to be rescued from belly-deep cold water, and it took the urgent blockage of an open door using a "Bobcat" earth-mover to stop the two hippos from leaving the park and heading down river.
The Bow River can offer drama as well as drainage.
Martin | 19.06.20 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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Bow, Burkina Faso: a hamlet near River Mouhoun, 85 miles west of Ouagadougou. The 2006 census counted 835 people in 123 households.
Joachim | 19.06.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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That was worth reading just to hear about the one in Washington.
Who knows, maybe some mayor somewhere will see the light and rename their town to "Bus Stop M"
Nick | Homepage | 19.06.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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With the list of places with the same name,DG obviously has other strings to his Bow.
Jo W | 19.06.20 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Place list posts often cause commenters to compete for most-visited status. Let me therefore be the first to say that I've visited none of these Bows.. although I've driven through Bow Brickhill.
Frank F | 19.06.20 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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The happen-chance and irony of Loch Doon (Lock Down) appearing is quite amusing too 😉
Kevin Too | 19.06.20 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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Thanks to Joachim, I now realise that I have passed close to the village of Bow in Burkina Faso (along the N14 highway): that's on the way to the National Park "Mare aux Hippopotames".
Martin | 19.06.20 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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Do any rhyme with how or cow?
Alan | 19.06.20 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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popartist took the words right out of my mouth. Great minds and fools...
Blue Witch | 19.06.20 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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Bow, WA isn't the most outlandish thing to be named for an fairly unremarkable London station - see this surprisingly interesting Londonist article for another.
martin | 19.06.20 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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One of your also-rans, Bow Brickhill, has a hymn tune named after it written by Sydney H Nicholson, one time organist of Westminster Abbey and founder of what became the Royal School of Church Music.
James Bunting | 19.06.20 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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Martin. Excellent link. Thank you.
Stuart | 19.06.20 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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When I spent a week on the Isles of Scilly, the guides said the locals never call it the S..... Isles, but rather The Isles of Scilly.
I don't know if he was winding us up.
Joho | Homepage | 19.06.20 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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There is also of course Bow Street WC2, but I think that it gets its name from its curved shape rather than leading to Bow.
Martin | 19.06.20 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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Impressive scouting. I live a few miles away from one of those, and often walk in the countryside nearby, with my Ordnance Survey may well pored-over, and have on numerous occasions been on a bus that has gone maybe half-a-mile at most away: but this is still the first time I've heard of it, so obscure and tiny is it.
Dominic H | 19.06.20 - 11:24 a.m. | #
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A town in Switzerland (where I happen to live) goes by the name of Bowil. Thats's five letters, of course, and pronounced differently (try Bauveel). But it's close enough. The -wil part of the name is something like your -ham (e.g. Chesham).
This is an opportunity to say: Thank you DG, I'm here almost every day.
Roland | 19.06.20 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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Oddly enough the only two Bows I know exactly where they are one the in London and the one beside the I-5 freeway in Washington between Burlington and Bellingham. Bow Hill Road is one of the offramps on the way to Vancouver from Seattle.
The renaming the town from Brownsville to Bow must not have worked as its now an unincorporated area. The fate of all failed towns.
If anyone is planning to visit Bow, WA I would recommend a visit around April when the Tulip Festival is held, further south in the Skagit Valley proper around La Conner to Mt Vernon area. Mile after mile of tulip fields, all blooming. A little unnerving at times given that landscapes generally are not supposed to be quite so many colours all at the same time.
jmc | 19.06.20 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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martin - That article may not be not entirely true - see here
vladimir | 19.06.20 - 2:44 p.m. | #
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Stratford, Ontario, Canada has the Avon River and is known for its theatre.
But if you ever do make it over here, you will probably want to visit the larger city of London, Ontario, where the Thames River flows under Blackfriars Bridge, and you can park on Oxford Street.
There are three types of placenames here: First Nations ones (Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Penetanguishene), ones lifted from the UK (Windsor, Chatham, Southampton, Hamilton) and old dead white landowners (Vaughan, Dundas).
Quin | 19.06.20 - 3:50 p.m. | #
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I grew up in Devon, and went to school with the son of the landlord of the pub in Bow (the Burston Inn).
Sadly but unsurprisingly it does not seem to survive as a pub.
Klepsie | 19.06.20 - 6:24 p.m. | #
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Nice to know Bow Street will be gaining a station soon.
Cau1khead | 19.06.20 - 6:24 p.m. | #
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Bow Selecta!
Darren | 19.06.20 - 7:47 p.m. | #
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I wonder if any of the others have a bus stop M.
Nick L | 19.06.20 - 8:07 p.m. | #
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Loving the love for all things Bow today.
The DG correspondents, like DG, are a class apart from the usual blog drivel. It would be invidious to name my particular favourites.
scrumpy | 19.06.20 - 9:17 p.m. | #
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Have passed through Bow village in Devon a number of times but don't think I've ever got out to explore; it's overshadowed by its more interestingly named neighbour Zeal Monachorum.
A few miles north of the hamlet in the South Hams there is another Bow, though I think it is more commonly known as Bow Bridge. Excitingly you can even stay in the pub there.
cjw714 | 20.06.20 - 1:48 a.m. | #
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Is there information on the pronunciation of these various places called "Bow"? Which rhyme with "blow" and which rhyme with "brow" for example...
Cau1khead | 20.06.20 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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Don’t forget Bow River, a great number by Cold Chisel
Jim | 20.06.20 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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