Case Nightmare Greenfield

Phantom islands are fairly abundant, if it makes sense to call nonexistent things abundant, but a phantom town in Lancashire seems fairly novel—at least, now that the earthwork at Old Sarum and the submerged town of Dunwich no longer return Members to Parliament. The Museum of Hoaxes wonders whether it might be Google's version of a trap street, but persons of a certain literary taste, already used to wondering whether Dunwich really is merely a vanished ex-constituency, may be thinking:

Argleton... That looks like... something familiar...