Alphabetical thing: Burnt Oak

Burnt Oak Underground station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, the stop before Edgware itself. There are two tracks with an island platform, and steps leading up to the ticket office.

What's immediately outside the station? Watling Avenue, as full of downmarket, cheap-'n'-cheerful shops as the streets round Buckhurst Hill were full of expensive, upmarket ones.

Is Watling Avenue part of Watling Street? No, but it is just round the corner from it. This obviously confused the original builders of the Underground station into thinking the area must be called Watling:

But in reality, Watling is as imaginary an area as Brondesbury.

Thankfully one street (well, a back lane actually) round there has a much more accurate and less confusing name: