Making sense of it
In North Yorkshire there was a village called Boulby. They opened a mine (potash, I recall) south of the town and called it South Boulby Mine. The mine prospered and soon they opened another mine, south of the village but north of the first mine.
So they called the new one North Boulby Mine.
A hamlet grew up around the new mine and was called, not unreasonably, North Boulby.
Then the mines closed and vanished. So now we have the village of North Boulby, some 1 mile south of the village of Boulby.
This is something of a myth for our times. I suspect that many events and situations that we now find baffling and upsetting are the result of a chain of perfectly good decisions taken at the time.
I'm named after the street where I was born. But that street has gone now - where does that leave me ?
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