mansr,
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What's so special there?

penguin42,
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@mansr Please tell me that's the correct orientation.

mansr,
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@penguin42 I didn't rotate the map.

mansr,
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@penguin42 Can you figure out where it is?

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@mansr From the name of the shop shown, I think it's Salisbury.

mansr,
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@penguin42 Well done. What did you search?

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@mansr Originally I got it wrong and searched for 'Adom' East Street; searching for Adom "East Street' got me https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=File:Adorn_in_East_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1897851.jpg¶ms=051.069614_N_-001.802994_E_globe:Earth_type:camera__heading:45.00&language=en

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@mansr I've also just asked a couple of AIs; Gogole's told me such a junction was very improbable and gave up. ChatGPT's first go told me there was one in Wellington, NZ and I looked and couldn't find it; I told it to give me a location and it apologized and gave me one in Chichester, which it then told me was where there was a medieval market cross and it gave me the location; not too bad; I asked it if there were any others in the UK and it seems to have made one up in Horsham.

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@penguin42 The Chichester one is real and unsurprising. It's pretty much the centre of the city with a fairly large monument in the middle. The Salisbury one is just some residential streets on the outskirts of the city.

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@mansr It doesn't seem modern though; they're still labelled that way in a 1830-1880 map; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20.0&lat=51.06957&lon=-1.80314&layers=257&b=22&o=100

mansr,
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@penguin42 Curious. I wonder what inspired that naming.

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@mansr My bet is that there was a basic cross there sometime long ago.

mansr,
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@penguin42 Some unrelated Wikipedia browsing led me to this sort of related article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadripoint

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