Guardian Notes & Queries: Places

These are some of the many questions about places tackled over the years by the Guardian's celebrated 'Notes & Queries' columns. Eternally popular, the column has spawned ten books, two television series and a website. Now, the first book for three years, this is the definitive collection of the very best of the queries about places, providing informed and ingenious answers to those questions that provoke and puzzle, enlighten and entertain.