Argleton

Argleton
Google Maps location
Aerial view of the locality. One field is marked with a red pin and labelled "Argleton". A nearby settlement is marked "Aughton".
Created byGoogle LLC
In-universe information
TypeCopyright trap or mistake
LocationsWest Lancashire, England
Photo of a large, flat field, surrounded by trees in the far distance.
View of an empty field from Bold Lane in Aughton, looking north towards the supposed location of Argleton.

Argleton was a phantom settlement that appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth but was later removed by Google.[1] The supposed location of Argleton was between the A59 road and Town Green railway station within the civil parish of Aughton in West Lancashire, England, in an area of empty fields.[2][3] Data from Google is used by other online information services, which consequently treated Argleton as a real settlement within the L39 postcode area. As a result, some web services described local businesses from the postcode district as being located in Argleton, and gave weather reports for the area.[2][4]

  1. ^ Kleinman, Zoe (18 May 2010). "FutureEverything gathers technology's avant garde". BBC News. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013.
  2. ^ a b Lefort, Rebecca (31 October 2009). "Mystery of Argleton, the 'Google' town that only exists online Archived 2 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine". The Telegraph. Retrieved on 6 November 2009.
  3. ^ Hickman, Leo (3 November 2009). "Welcome to Argleton, the town that doesn't exist Archived 14 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 6 November 2009.
  4. ^ Ramachandran, Arjun (4 November 2009). "Argleton: the phantom town that Google created Archived 23 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 7 November 2009.