MIG wrote:

A while back, I had some correspondence with TfL about not being able
to get bus directions to Highgate Village (instead being directed to
some college about a mile away).

A mile away? I just tried it and got sent to Ligh****er Village School in
Bagshot!

The person at the other end insisted
that it was because I was entering something obscure and it was
guessing. I suggested that Highgate Village was well-known.

It is the normal name for the area... although people could say "Highgate
High Street" and achieve much the same result. I thought that it can't be
the only place in London where the station is so far from the High Street,
but a quick search around the map of London led me to Wimbledon, where the
phrase "Wimbledon Village" is also used. I don't think the phrase "Stanmore
Village" is widely used, since the station of that name closed at any rate.

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