Wrong place, wrong time
The name of the village of Nelson, north of Cardiff, was described as ‘problematic’ in an audit commissioned by the Welsh parliament, on the grounds that Admiral Nelson is claimed to have opposed the abolition of slavery. Some other place names that might not be safe:
— Blackboys, East Sussex
— Blackgang, Isle of Wight
— Churchill, Devon, North Somerset, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire
— Colston Bassett, Notts
— Lower Bitchfield, Lincs
— Nelson, Lancashire
— Pett Bottom, Kent
— Rhodes, Greater Manchester
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