From "Notes From a Small Island" by Bill Bryson

"The best part of Underground travel is that you never actually see the places above you. You have to imagine them. In other cities, station names are drearily mundane: Lexington Avenue, Potsdamer Platz, Third Street South. In London, by contrast, the names nearly always sound sylvan and beckoning: Stamford Brook, Turnham Green, Browley-by-the-Bow, Maida Vale, Drayton Park. That isn't a city up there, it's a Jane Austen novel."

p. 41-42