The hunt for Laycock

The wrong Laycock

Maybe fifteen years ago, BH got taken around a place called Laycock in the margins of my having important bank holiday business near Wootton Bassett, now Royal Wootton Bassett - the 'Royal' bit being a consolation prize for losing RAF Lyneham in 2012, once the home of the entertaining Fat Alberts. With Laycock being a sort of living chocolate box cover. 

Then yesterday the place came up in conversation over lunch. So having taken the odd glass and keen to demonstrate the wonders of OS Online to BH, I log in and ask for Laycock. To find myself near Keighley, up north somewhere. All most confusing. OS didn't seem to have heard of Laycock, Wiltshire. Insisted on going up north.

Next stop, gmaps. They knew about Keighley too. But Google was able to explain that the Laycock with the abbey somewhere near Swindon was actually called Lacock. Armed with which information I was able to direct OS to the right place. All this having taken between five and ten minutes.

I suppose it is not reasonable to expect the search feature within OS Maps Online to cope with this sort of thing.

PS: in slow time, I must inquire as to why Lacock is the way it is: most villages have moved on from their sort of National Trust thing.