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Did you discover the reason for the flurry of Hertfordshire tributes?
At your rate of progress you should reach Croydon in a couple of days. Is the West Croydon Bus Station on your route? As a major hub it is really awful - badly designed, bleak, confusing, and with a complete lack of information about when buses will be arriving.

Please give it the once-over - maybe the fame of DG will shame those in charge into making improvements!
On repeated words... we have Victoria, which is 'London Victoria', and Paddington, which becomes 'London Paddington' when book tickets on train websites, etc.. so surely therefore London Bridge should become 'London London Bridge' :-)
Also your map makes me very happy, but with two thoughts:

- I don't know where the edge of London is. anyway you could draw on the boundaries of the boroughs so we could see how close you're sticking to the edge?

dg writes: If you want to see how these buses relate to the edge of London, click the first link in today's post... TfL's essential "Southeast London bus map".

- Google Maps has an undisclosed maximum number of nodes for maps like this. I predict you'll get about halfway round, and it'll then start being flaky on you when you try and edit/update it. Good luck with that...
Apropos of not very much, the New Vaudeville Band had a song about Green Street Green.
There is a Junction Road Junction on the Goblin (near Upper Holloway), and plenty of churches named after St Simon & St Jude.
Your link to Green Street Green goes to a splendid example of a DIY community website. However, it is bang up to date and, Bryn above will be glad to hear, has a piece about the New Vaudeville Band song.
Try putting Green Street Green into Google Maps it will give you the other one, not far away from your first bus, next to Bean. To get to it you go along Green Street Green Road.
I was going to point out that there are two Green Street Greens, one in former Kent, the other in still-Kent, here: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=DA2+8DP&ie=UTF-8&ei=Sd_LUoTRBIO47AbjxYDYCQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg
Not sure if it counts as a 'place' as such, but between Gospel Oak and Upper Holloway stations on the Overground, you pass Junction Road Junction.
Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria has the word "hill" in four languages in its name, and there are several "River Avon"s - "avon" is Celtic for "river".
Indeed, in Welsh, (which has no letter "V"), they would be translated to "Afon Afon"

So, having guessed wrong yesterday, (and I'm glad you envisage the blog still going strong in three years' time!), what is it to be tomorrow: another R route to stay close to the border, or the more direct (and historically quirky) route?
Having childhood dreams that feature St Pauls Cray heavily - no good will come of that whatsoever....I'm sorry to say.
I have a question about a British word here... can someone please tell me what a Cray is, exactly? Does it have more than one meaning within this context? Thank you in advance.
Cray, in this Kentish context, is the name of the river along whose valley DG has been travelling since Crayford.

DG - I looked at the bus stop at St Mary Cray on GSV - I can't see any typographical oddities: has it been modified since 2012 when the Google Car went by?

dg writes: Yes.
Well, as a fellow former resident of Croxley Green (Herts.) I'm excited! I genuinely never knew of the existence of this "tribute". Every day is a school day. Cheers DG!
timbo, oh, okay, I see. I did some reading at DG's links and see that these are place-names based on historical settlements, all intersecting the Cray, hence "___ Cray". That is what I didn't understand earlier. I am not familiar with this way of naming places and that is where I got confused!
In Melbourne (Australia) there is a suburb Footscray - typical Australians simplifying everything...
Geofftech - the live bus map also shows where the edge of London is

Tim - for those of us playing 'guess the next bus I think the clue is in the fact that DG got off in Orpington rather than staying on until Green Street Green; therefore I'm expecting him to take the more direct, and more frequent, route.

Thrown Olives - the name Cray dates back at least as far as the Domesday Book of 1086 but a quick google gives no clue to the derivation of the name.
Geoff - For an overlay on DG's map, load up the map, type 'Greater London', press enter, and hit the back button to go back to the routes. The outline of London remains superimposed on the map in a desktop browser. dg writes: I think I've now managed to add that border to the map permanently, thanks.










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