No Place
No Place is a small village near the town of
Etymology
The origins of the village's unusual name are uncertain; however, theories include a shortening of "North Place", "Near Place" or "Nigh Place", or that the original houses of the village stood on a boundary between two parishes, neither of which would accept the village.[3] It could also be a literary play on the word "Utopia", which comes from the Greek: οὐ ("not") and τόπος ("place") and translates as "no-place".
The village originally consisted of four terraced houses, known as No Place. In 1937, residents of the terrace of houses to the north, known as Co-operative Villas, demolished these houses, but took on the name for their own village.[2] Derwentside Council tried to change the name of the village to Co-operative Villas in 1983; however, they met with strong protests from local residents at the removal of all signs pointing to No Place.[4] Today the signs say both No Place and (at the request of some residents) Co-operative Villas.[1]
No Place has been noted for its
Film references
Sharing the village's name is
References
- ^ Time Magazine, January 25, 1954
- ^ a b No Place finds its way into a history book, The Northern Echo, 16 March 2001
- ^ Nameless Girls – New Scientist, 18 March 2006
- ^ Earth movers and the mysterious history behind naming of No Place[permanent dead link], North East History, 5 December 2007
- ISBN 978-1-4481-5271-1.
- ^ IMDB