title: The Knowhere Guide
text: # The Knowhere Guide
  
  The Knowhere Guide is a crowd-sourced online guide to British towns. It was originally a guide to the skateboarding 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 were seen to be so negative that local MP Laura Moffatt stated, "We should have the ability to take things down." The site was also blamed for encouraging illegal skateboarding in Halesowen.
  
  