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The result was Speedy delete as hoax. Hut 8.5 21:14, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Monvilla[edit]

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Today's entry from CAT:HOAX. This village does not exist. The grid reference given is a one-kilometre square in the location described, but the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map, which is detailed enough to show individual farms, does not show "Monvilla", there or anywhere nearby. To check the map, go to the Ordnance Survey website here, click the large pink button and enter SJ325375 in the search box. You can try entering "Monvilla", but if you have popups blocked you won't see the popup which says the Ordnance Survey can't find it.

A quick look at Google does give the impression that this place exists; but I think automatic systems must have been picking it up from this article (which has been in for more than two years) because, when you try to pin Monvilla down, it fades away like a mirage. "Thetownguide.com" has an entry for it under Shropshire here; but if you scroll down the long list of villages and click on "Monvilla" there is no information. If you then choose "aerial photo and road map", you get a map of Tennessee because "The closest match for 'Monvilla, Shropshire' is 'Monoville, Smith, Tennessee, United States'". "England for all" has a page about it here, but it doesn't say anything, and the "Books about Monvilla" it offers are just general books to do with Shropshire. I can't find anything about its "Druidic temple" either.

Originator Nikolas.Evans (talk · contribs) has made no other constructive edits.

Delete as a hoax article which may have been misleading other sites. JohnCD (talk) 20:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom, seems to be a hoax — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beeblbrox (talk • contribs)
• Speedy delete G3 Appears to be a hoax to me, given the utter lack of information. So tagged. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 21:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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