The Knowhere Guide is a crowd-sourced online guide to British towns. It was originally a guide to the

skateboarding Skateboarding is an extreme sport, action sport originating in the United States that involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry Profession, job, and a ...

scene in the UK. The Guide was founded in 1994. It is quoted by British guidebooks, such as Rough Guides, as a recommended source of online information. The guide also included a fictional town known as "Chuffing Hell", which has been mistaken as a real town by commercial web based directories. The site's comments about the town of

Crawley Crawley () is a large town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Crawley covers an area of and had a population of 106,597 at the time of th ...

were seen to be so negative that local MP

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stated, "We should have the ability to take things down." The site was also blamed for encouraging illegal skateboarding in Halesowen.Cheeky skateboarders snub official skatepark

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As of December 2023, the site is no longer available online.

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