Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old June 27th 06, 04:02 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
In message , at
08:21:09 on Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Ned Carlson
remarked:
However, the official royal website calls the palace, St. James's
Palace.

And all the old maps I have ever found (going back centuries) also use
that spelling (for the palace and nearby roads, churches etc).
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