Short British Town Names
Posted: 06 Aug 2024 17:31
Hi folks. I've made a NewGRF that contains 3,821 place names that are at most six characters long. These are names of cities, towns, villages (and hamlets) in Great Britain (i.e. England, Scotland and Wales).
I made this back in April, and I've been using it in a number of playthroughs. It's nice not having long place names, and makes it a bit easier naming stations, groups and the like. There are definitely some pretty odd names in there, though!
I used data taken from the Gazetteer of British Place Names (https://gazetteer.org.uk/), but I have removed a small number of place names that I deem to be overly generic, confusing or otherwise inappropriate in the context of OpenTTD. All the town names are equally likely to appear. Attached is version 1.1, also updated on BaNaNaS, having just removed a few more place names from the list.
Hopefully this NewGRF might be useful to someone out there. I'd be curious to hear any thoughts you might have. Cheers
I made this back in April, and I've been using it in a number of playthroughs. It's nice not having long place names, and makes it a bit easier naming stations, groups and the like. There are definitely some pretty odd names in there, though!
I used data taken from the Gazetteer of British Place Names (https://gazetteer.org.uk/), but I have removed a small number of place names that I deem to be overly generic, confusing or otherwise inappropriate in the context of OpenTTD. All the town names are equally likely to appear. Attached is version 1.1, also updated on BaNaNaS, having just removed a few more place names from the list.
Hopefully this NewGRF might be useful to someone out there. I'd be curious to hear any thoughts you might have. Cheers