Cheerleaders for the St. Louis Rams NFL team pose for photographs on the Abbey Road zebra crossing made famous by the Beatles in London, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The Rams are to play the New England Patriots at Wembley stadium in London, Sunday, Oct. 28 in a regular season NFL game. (AP Photo/Dave Shopland/NFL UK) 
A tribute band dressed as members of British band, the Beatles, walk across the famous pedestrian crossing on Abbey Road, in London, in a recreation of the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover as hundreds of people gathered to mark the 40th anniversary of the album, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Characters from the recently-opened Universal Studios' release "Chicken Run" mimic a scene in a photo of the Beatles used as the cover for the band's "Abbey Road" album, during the opening ceremonies for a new attraction called "Chicken Run Maze," which is based on the movie, at Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, Calif., Tuesday, June 20, 2000. (AP Photo/Universal Studios Hollywood, Michael Tweed)
Tourists cross over the zebra crossing in Abbey Road in London, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. The world-famous zebra crossing which features on the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road sleeve has been given "listed" status by the Government. The crossing - just outside the renowned Abbey Road studios, where the Beatles recorded much of their output - has been given Grade II listing by heritage minister John Penrose. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Bonhams Auctioneers staff dressed in Beatles outfits similar to those worn on the cover of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, walk across the crossing at Abbey Road in London to where an announcement was made of the sale of the original lyrics for John Lennon's song ' A Day in the Life' which appeared as a track on the Sgt. Pepper album, in London Tuesday Jan. 31, 2006. The lyrics are to be sold in a sealed-bid auction concluded on March 7 with an estimated price of 1.5 million, (US$2.6 million, 2.1 million), London, Tuesday, Jan 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
In this file photo dated Feb. 16, 2010, a man walks across the zebra crossing made famous from the album cover of The Beatles 'Abbey Road' in front of Abbey Road Studios, seen at left, in London. Feb. 16, 2010. Struggling music company EMI Group has shelved plans to sell Abbey Road, the London recording studio made famous by The Beatles. The company now says, Monday Feb. 22, 2010, it wants to keep the facility and is talking to "interested and appropriate third parties" about a revitalization project. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori, File)At the London Beatles Store, which sells Fab Four memorabilia, owner Howard Cohen said the mix-up over the location of the studio is not new — because there are so many Abbey roads in London — but that the mishaps have been exacerbated by the new Abbey Road Station in a distant part of the capital.
“We get so many people coming in looking for the studios that we have maps printed up with directions, free, as a service,” he said. “It’s a bit confusing.”
Even worse, he said, are the hapless tourists who arrive at Liverpool Street Station in central London and think they, in fact, are in Liverpool, the Beatles’ hometown.
“They ask how to get to Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields,” he said, referring to places in Liverpool made famous by Lennon-McCartney songs.
The answer, sadly, is 210 miles to the north.
How to get to the Beatles’ Abbey Road: From central London, take the Jubilee Line north to St. John’s Wood Station. Then walk west for three blocks on Grove End Road. Abbey Road will be on your right.
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