{"id":231,"date":"2013-02-01T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=231"},"modified":"2013-04-12T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T18:30:58","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In A Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marsh Fla<strong>tt<\/strong>s or Marsh Fla<strong>t<\/strong>s?<\/p>\n<p>The Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map clearly shows &#8220;Marsh Flatts&#8221; and the Land Registry agree with that spelling since the official title record shows &#8220;Marsh Flatts Farm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Post Office have different ideas and spell it &#8220;Marsh Flats Farm&#8221;. It seems they take their instructions from the local council highways department.<\/p>\n<p>There seem to be quite a few places called &#8220;<em>Something<\/em> Flatts Farm&#8221;. In particular, Church Flatts Farm (only 16 miles away) has a claim to fame through being <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/derbyshire\/3090539.stm\">the furthest point from the sea in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s worth trying to get the Post Office to add the second &#8216;t&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>2013-02-22: Two updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">I now have the updated Land Registry title record which shows me taking over\u00a0ownership, and they&#8217;ve aligned with the Post Office spelling so now they show Marsh Flats Farm.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I got a response to my query with South Derbyshire County Council who agree that the correct spelling is Marsh Flatts and they&#8217;re going to tell the Post Office and others to use that spelling instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now (or at least soon) only the Land Registry should be out of synch. Maybe I can get them to change too, once the Post Office start showing the new spelling.<\/p>\n<p>2013-04-12: Just spotted that the Post Office are now listing the right address on their Address Finder; two t&#8217;s. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marsh Flatts or Marsh Flats? The Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map clearly shows &#8220;Marsh Flatts&#8221; and the Land Registry agree with that spelling since the official title record shows &#8220;Marsh Flatts Farm&#8221;. Unfortunately, the Post Office have different ideas and spell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}