Imaginary Town on Google Maps: Argleton

Located in the Northwest of England If you decide to go to Argleton You may be a little disappointed, because there is actually no residential area at this address. When you go, all you will see is a muddy, empty land.

Well, a place that doesn’t really exist, on the map Why is there?

Argleton was a strange place that popped up in Google Maps’ database in 2008.

Here, in the Lancashire region of England, was shown on the map as a town stated to be near Liverpool. But as you just learned, there is actually no town or settlement in this region.

People, on Google Maps When they realized the existence of Argleton, they wanted to visit there to visit this imaginary town. Because on the surface, this was an ordinary town. However, the fact that this place does not physically exist has dragged this strange situation to an even more interesting dimension.

According to Google, the only explanation for this situation was that it was an ‘error’. Actually, when you think about it, it’s not unreasonable. Because most of the time, data in mapping services is collected from many sources. It is inevitable that sometimes inaccurate or misleading information enters databases.

But things did not go so easily. The media examined this strange incident for a long time and many theories were put forward about it.

The address shown as a town on the map.

While some claim that this imaginary town is a map error, others say conspiracy theories or they thought it might be associated with mysterious events.

Nearby places of this name The village called Aughton, It was even suggested that it was a typo and might have been added to the map by mistake. There were even those who thought that Argleton was a fake town created by mapmakers to protect their copyright.

What made things even weirder was that this place had a zip code.

The postcode existed, but people, businesses, and settlements were found to be located elsewhere in the same postcode area, even though they were real. The town was later marked as “closed” on Google Maps. The only reason for this mistake is Google error It was suggested.

We can say that Argleton is not the only example of this. For example Agloe in New York was one of such ‘imaginary’ settlements. Argleton remained in the memory of Google Maps as one of the strange and interesting memories of the online world.

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