For any other non Sheffield based readers, the clue in Pitsmoor is in the first four letters. It really is the Pits. Hawley has now done Lowedges (which is a place rather than a description of something with er, low edges), Coles Corner and Lady's Bridge. (Late Night Final was the last daily print run of The Sheffield Star rag). Personally I'm betting on 'Brightside' for the next 'un, with a cosmic outside tip for 'Crystal Peaks' if he goes psychedelic.

Or an aching reverb-drenched hymn to t' Castle Market.

all the chip butty wrapping flowing down?

I actually spent the Labour day weekend in Asbury Park many years ago and I found it quite an appealing place, in the way that just about all seaside towns are appealing when the sun's shining. To a Brit brought up on the prom the very word "boardwalk" is a beautiful thing in itself.

Apparently it's not really worth knowing the way to San Jose, as I'm told it's a very dull city.
And I'm led to believe that it's a long way to Tipperary only because Tipperary scans properly. If you were closer to it you might as well head on west or south to the gorgeous Cork or Kerry.
Two rose-tinted views of home, then.

I've got lots of friends in Stoke Poges.

Mint Royale's 'From Rusholme with love' certainly exaggerates the charms of a crowded street of dodgy curry houses surrounded by rough terraced houses.

"From Rusholme With Blood", as Barry Adamson put it, another musician prone to romanticizing his home town (in a dark but pun-filled pulp novel type way).

and the free flowing but dubious charms of Ladbroke Grove have been greatly enhanced by various hairy characters over the years.

Of course my hometown, Walsall, has the distinction of being the former name of Joy Division. It's certainly equally devoid of joy.

David did a good piece about romantic/romanticised place names in song for radio not long ago. A very American thing, though London, Dublin and some other big cities support a fairly large repertoire of passionate paeans.
Here we should mention Billy Bragg's attempt at a British Route 66, "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea".
Shane - you might know that Nantwich is already mentioned in popular song; it's on a big list of Northern towns that form the basis of the KLF's "It's Grim Up North". Not exactly romanticised though; after a stirring sample of "Jerusalem" it ends with the desolate sound of a swirling wind and a few cawing crows.

... to Abergavenny! A piece of sixties pop nonsense from Marty Wilde. Coming from just up the road in Hereford I'd agree that Abergavenny is a pleasant little town, but why it prompted a song lord knows. The Beatles did play there once, though.

Scottish crooner Chris Thompson of The Bathers has a song called 'Weem Rock Muse' after Weem Rock which is in deepest, darkest Perthshire (I think). To wit: 'In the village of Weem, she moved through the brightest dream.' I passed through Weem once and it looked very pastoral...

I think Chris Rea wrote the song "Steel River" about the Middlesborough area and he certainly manages to conjure up a certain romantic charm about a town that was recently voted the worst place to live in Britain. Never been there myself, maybe one day though. Jimmy Nail's "Big River" also springs to mind, quite a lovely song sung by a man who perhaps has a face that only a mother could love.

Just want to add "Fareweel Regality" by Rachel Unthank and the Winterset to this list, which sings the praises of the Rock 'n' Roll capital of the world, Hexhamshire in Northumberland. It's absolutely gorgeous. They played it in a session on Maconie & Radcliffe, and someone texted in saying they'd heard it as they drove home by Hadrian's Wall as dusk fell, and it brought tears to their eyes.

Fairport Convention surely hold the world record for mentioning place names in their songs. Cropredy Capers, Chelsea Morning, Babbacombe Lee, Bridge Over The River Ash, Hexhamshire Lass, The Widow Of Westmoreland, The Eynsham Poacher, Barwick Green, I could go on and on, and these are just the place names that appear in song titles. There are hundreds more that are just in the lyrics of the song. I've heard Rotherhithe mentioned in a song. I used to live near Rotherhithe and until it got yuppified, you would have had to pay local people to live there. Costello got it right with "I don't want to got to Chelsea".

Check out Jackie Levens Germanic version of 'I've been everywhere' where he celebrates just about every German city we can think of including the legendary Baden Baden, so good they named it twice.

Shane you are right. Edinburgh is surely not the place The Blue Nile refer to in many of their (early) songs, that honour goes to Glasgow from where they hail. Granted there are places in Glasgow where no man should walk alone but it is a wonderful place with an equally wonderful musical heritage. I can think of no other band who soundtrack this city so well, whenever I hear their music it fondly reminds of a place quite near home. I do however concede that most if not all of their early music was recorded in Edinburgh though.