one of my favourite subjects as you may know is "British place names that can't possibly be real", and there is one place that I don't think has escaped containment from this preposterous island yet
welcome to His Majesty's Prison, Wormwood Scrubs
the list of notable prisoners also scratches the Not A Serious Country itch:
- Horatio Bottomley
- Basil Bunting
- William Montague, 9th Duke Of Manchester
- someone just called "Nines"
and if you're wondering where it got the name, it's named after the patch of London land it's built on - a name from the 11th century, where Scrubs refers to shrubs and marshland and Wormwood is an archaic English word for a snake-infested forest
























