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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? 12:26 - Sep 25 with 2466 viewsSitfcB

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/25493526.bury-st-edmunds-mistaken-town-error-footbal


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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 15:49 - Sep 25 with 517 viewsTangledupin_Blue

A few years ago a Bulgarian lorry driver should have taken his load to Gibraltar. Instead, he took it to Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire.

I know a couple of occasions when drivers have gone to Newport in Wales but should have gone to Newport in Shropshire.

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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 16:28 - Sep 25 with 455 viewsiamatractorboy

Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 14:49 - Sep 25 by _clive_baker_

Could've been worse, you could've bought tickets to see Griff Rhys Jones.


I was expecting that as the punchline too
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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 16:51 - Sep 25 with 433 viewsronnyd

Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 13:14 - Sep 25 by bluefunk

It definitely didn’t happen to me but just be careful if you’re going to Sherbourne, there’s several of them😁


Don't go "up north" to Newbiggin. There's loads of 'em.
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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 17:01 - Sep 25 with 408 viewsKBsSocks

Another one. I went from Apperley Bridge (Bradford) to Manchester on the train, bought ticket on train, and was charged for Appley Bridge (Chorley) - wondered why the ticket was so cheap, and did question the conductor, but to no avail.

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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 17:34 - Sep 25 with 374 viewsArnoldMoorhen

Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 12:39 - Sep 25 by FBI

My Stepdad once met a Swiss lorry driver looking for the airport in Stansted, just outside Glemsford.


At least he was in the right region!
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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 20:08 - Sep 25 with 304 viewsSitfcB

Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 12:50 - Sep 25 by Pinewoodblue

Some friends, musicians, had a gig in Whitby, N Yorks and booked a B£B. They were walking the streets, after midnight and couldn’t find . They rang them for directions seems there is another Whitby on the Wirral.

Read a few weeks ago about Americans who booked a flight from Rome to Nice.They boarded their flight and wasn’t until the plane landed in Tunis that thry. realised they had made a big mistake.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/12/us/video/tourists-accidentally-end-up-in-afri

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I watched that Tunis- to Nice - one play out on TikTok as the girl was uploading videos in real time they realised whilst they were mid air, funny.

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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 21:16 - Sep 25 with 257 viewsPendejo

In the world of Chauffeuring (posh minicabs) there's a couple of urban legends

The driver who dropped in Orpington who was sent a pick up as part of a 4 car job from Leeds Castle (the days before trackers & sat nav), when he wasn't there 30 mins before pick up the controller rang him up to ask where he was he received a volley of abuse for only being given 2 hours to get to Leeds...

Passenger picked up from Heathrow from a red eye promptly goes to sleep, drivers ancient "coggie" goes tech, stuck on a screen that said "S. Wales", pax wakes up to enquire where they were, the driver said he was glad he woke up as he didn't know where in South Wales they were going....
"That's my name, Steve Wales"

Hythe Kent & Hythe Hampshire were regular errors (even I did that one), see also Gillingham, Kent & Dorset, Farnborough Hampshire & Kent

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Anyone ever travelled to the wrong place with the right name like this? on 22:49 - Sep 25 with 193 viewsIndependentlyBlue

Several years ago my Dad, a lorry driver, was asked by another lorry driver, who’d driven from Glasgow, where a particular address was in Norwich (this was in Norwich). My Dad looked at the adddress and had to tell the guy he’d misread it as Northwich.

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

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