Looks like the lamppost variety, then - and I hadn't noticed the alliterative names (Trev near Tennyson's etc.). The must have been heroes in the office (or school) for a few days.

Iain

Hi Iain, I hope this is not inappropriate language, but if you look to the left of Rob below Tennyson Down I'm I sure you can see the word Arse, or is it just my corrupted mind.

A few days ago I read that a cartographer named Bill had included his own name in the marks denoting a cliff edge on the 1:50,000 OS map of the Isle of Wight. I had a look on Streetmap. Sure enough, it's there, just above Blackgang on the coastline NW of St. Catherine's Point, the most southerly tip of the island.

A few minutes' googling turned up another, again on the Isle of Wight, this one Trev (west of Tennyson's Monument, east of the Needles). On the same stretch of coast, I noticed, his mate Rob had a go as well. And NW of Bill (near Whale Chine) is Mike.

Are these isolated cases (Bill, Trev, Rob and Mike seem to be only ones on the Isle of Wight), or is the coastline of other islands (or other OS features) round the UK peppered with 'Easter Eggs' ? Just dogs and lamposts, or anything more interesting ?

Iain.