Type of site | Online guide to British towns |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| URL | www |
| Launched | 1994 |
| Current status | Online but defunct (March 2022) |
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, [1] and was created in 1994 [2] by Tim Leighton-Boyce and Paul Sanders. [3] It has been quoted by British guidebooks such as Rough Guides in the past as a recommended source of online information, [4] [5] and the guide also included a fictional town called "Chuffing Hell" which has been mistaken as a real town previously by commercial directories. [6]
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." [7]