Historical version 5 of Earl's Court But Barons Court (view current version)

At least according to tube stop names, Earl's Court has an apostrophe, but [Barons Court]? doesn't. Apparently, the latter probably had an apostrophe at one point, but it got lost:

http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-most-recent/msg04651.html

And let's not even think about St James's Park ...

See also: Easily Made Mistakes.

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