The Knowhere Guide

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| url = {{URL|https://www.knowhere.co.uk}}

| type = Online guide to British towns

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| language = English

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| launch_date = 1994

| current_status = Online but defunct (March 2022)

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The Knowhere Guide was a crowd-sourced online guide to British towns. It originally started life as a guide to the skateboarding scene allowing contributors to add and review skateboarding spots,[https://books.google.com/books?id=47OxwbFaHXcC&dq=Knowhere+guide&pg=PA178 The Vicar's Guide: Life and Ministry in the Parish], by David Ison, page 178 and was created in 1994[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/08/jimmy_wales_wikipedia_listen_up_london_and_learn/ Jimbo Wales: Wikipedia servers in UK? No way, not with YOUR libel law], The Register, Andrew Orlowski, August 2012 by Tim Leighton-Boyce and Paul Sanders.[https://romancandlemagazine.com/2022/03/16/the-road-to-knowhere-tim-leighton-boyce-and-paul/ The Road to Knowhere – Tim Leighton-Boyce and Paul Sanders on the History of the Knowhere Guide], Roman Candle Magazine, 16 March 2022 It has been quoted by British guidebooks such as Rough Guides in the past as a recommended source of online information,[https://books.google.com/books?id=sXrZmU-2TsoC&dq=Knowhere+guide&pg=PA22 Rough Guide to England][https://books.google.com/books?id=AOt1Hb8MOQUC&dq=Knowhere+guide&pg=PA22 Rough Guide to Britain] and the guide also included a fictional town called "Chuffing Hell" which has been mistaken as a real town previously by commercial directories.[https://books.google.com/books?id=CiO5JtP171oC&dq=%22knowhere+guide%22&pg=PA514 Mapping Hacks for Electronic Cartography] By Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh, page 514

The site's comments about the town of Crawley were seen to be so negative that local MP Laura Moffatt stated, "We should have the ability to take things down."[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233801/http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/local/website-used-to-slate-crawley-1-979306 Website used to slate Crawley - Mid Sussex Times], Mid Sussex Times, 8 May 2009