Which US comedian and actor shares his name with a traditional English ballad and an area of the Eldon Square Shopping Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne?
The Ballad of Chevy Chase from the engagement famed in ballad and history". A tract of land in British America was named "Cheivy Chace" by 1725, and was eventually developed into the modern affluent areas of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C. A golf club in the Maryland Chevy Chase inspired the name of Chevy Chase, Lexington, Kentucky. In naming things after elements of local culture, a shopping mall in the Eldon Square Shopping Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, is named "Chevy Chase" after the ballad. The ballad inspired the childhood nickname and adult stage name of the American comedian and actor Chevy
Eldon Square Shopping Centre Eldon Square Shopping Centre Eldon Square is a shopping centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It opened in 1976 and was built on the site of Old Eldon Square, a famous part of Georgian Newcastle designed by John Dobson in about 1824. This redevelopment, which left only the eastern terrace standing, has been criticised, with one writer calling it "the greatest single example of architectural vandalism in Britain since the war." When the centre opened it was the largest city-centre shopping centre in the UK. In 2013 it was rebranded as intu Eldon Square. The Shopping Centre occupies an area