[1] The supposed location of Argleton was between the A59 road and Town Green railway station within the civil parish of Aughton in West Lancashire, England, in an area of empty fields.

As a result, some web services described local businesses from the postcode district as being located in Argleton, and gave weather reports for the area.

[2][4] The anomaly was first written about by Mike Nolan, head of web services at nearby Edge Hill University, who posted about it on his blog in September 2008.

[3][5] In early 2009 it was investigated further by Nolan's colleague, Roy Bayfield, who walked to the area shown on Google Maps to see if there was anything special about it.

[3] A spokesman for Google stated that "While the vast majority of this information is correct there are occasional errors", and encouraged users to report any issues directly to their data provider.