Talk:Edgware (disambiguation)

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I've tidied this page but I'm not at all sure a disambiguation page is needed at all. Edgware does not seem to be ambiguous and it is the only article linking here! Edgware Road may well be an area (in Edgware) as well as a road but that does not need disambiguating here. Edgeware (NZ) has a different spelling: it does not seem to be mentioned in Christchurch#List_of_Christchurch_suburbs but Google finds it. Lord Edgware, if anyone was bothered, would go in as such. Thincat 16:12, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

07-Jun-2006: The difference between Edgware Road and the Underground, Edgware Road tube station, is a valid concern. Also, the title "Lord" might be omitted for "Lord Edgware" as another valid concern. The issue is analogous to the term Lord Delamere: the man (also called "Delamere"), or the character in Out of Africa, or the pub/bar in the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The more one knows, the more it matters. Note that Enc. Britannica often lists several matching paragraphs because disambiguation occurs quite, quite often. Remember, Wikipedia contains only a very tiny, hollow, miniscule fraction of the common knowledge in the World. -Wikid77 07:48, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Edgware Road is not "an area (in Edgware) as well as a road". Reminiscent of the situation of there being many London Roads - roads which lead to London - the Edgware Road is a named highway both distant from and passing through the town of Edgware in Middlesex, Greater London. I recently was in communication with an eBay seller who was confused over this very point. He was listing a historical print of Cato Street off the Edgware Road 'in Edgware'. After my communicating the above to him he remained firm in his opinion that "Edgware was an area of London which the Edgware road runs through. Edgware still exists as an area of London, which Cato Street is a thoroughfare." The Wikipedia entry informed me about the 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy in London, but Edgware itself cannot claim it as part of its history. Brenont 15:33, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I echo wikid77 '07-Jun-2006: The difference between Edgware Road and the Underground, Edgware Road tube station, is a valid concern.' At the time of 7 July 2005 London bombings it was reported that a bomb had exploded on a train that had just left platform 4 at Edgware Road. Newsgroup discussions referred to the 'Edgware Road bomb' which predictably led to confusion as to the location of this happening. Brenont 16:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)