Talk:Shooter's Hill

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[edit] Apostrophe? - Shooter's Hill vs Shooters Hill

Regardless of whether one is right and the other wrong, two spellings are used in published material. and both should therefor be mentioned.

I have found many maps, books and other places using apostrophe and many not; and some using both, such as here look at place name and road name on this map. I have found on Google searches there are more with. Greenwich Council does not use one. Different Collins Road Atlases use either spelling but usually with apostrophe, OS maps have used both but usually without one. I don't know if one is right and the other is wrong, so cannot say what the title of the article should be. But as a loose rule all times it is mentioned in the article should be the same. I am changing all in text to "Shooter's Hill" for this reason, but mentioning the other. I have only chosen Shooter's Hill as it is the present title and has more links to it. I have left the Samuel Pepys thing as the spelling maybe a direct quotation. If anyone can provide a source one is right and the other is wrong please do. Or in fact any source discussing the fact there are different spellings of the name. If Someone feels that strongly it should be Shooters Hill with no apostrophe they should move the article to that title and change all in text appearances to match, but still mention there is another spelling as well as changing other links and templates in other articles.

The roadsign in the area has it as "Shooters Hill" -- RND  T  C  18:21, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Carlwev (talk) 17:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No History?

Why is a history section missing from this article. Apart from a brief statement about the origin of its name it has a lot of history and would have played a vital part in the defence of London in World War II. -- RND  T  C  18:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)