How are road names allocated?

[Telstarbox]

Gran Canaria has the thrilling "Avenida Touroperador Thomson Holidays" (and others)

https://goo.gl/maps/BkePSfFxZEhDo1Ln7

[Marzo]

Underground stations! Rats! Why did I never think of those when I was dealing with road naming? So many names to choose from.

[PhilC]

The street numbers on the A34 Stratford Road also reset to 1 at the Birmingham/Solihull boundary where Hall Green becomes Shirley. And the odd and even numbers again swap sides.

And interestingly, Stratford Road, Solihull has the highest house number in the UK, at 2679.

How far out is that? Hockley Heath?

Yes, it's on the left just after Spring Lane. There are details and photos on Zoopla.

[Big Nick]

Clearly whoever laid out this part of Baltimore liked aeroplanes. Who wouldn't want to live on Yawmeter Drive https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/604 ... 76.4625381

Considering the builders were the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company it's not too surprising!
They had a lot of factories in the Baltimore area (next to Martin State Airport) and providing homes for their workers was essential in 1941. Slight downside is that the hundreds of homes were prefabricated out of asbestos cement

I do like the use of Tailspin Lane and Slipstream Court, and the nod to De Havilland and Sopwith is nice.

[vlad]

Chelmsford has a Dickens-themed area.

Alongside roads like Copperfield Road, Oliver Way and Magwitch Close you find a couple of characters who've given their full name to the road in question, so some people have an address on Barnaby Rudge or Little Dorrit (here).

[RichardA626]

A lot of streets in Gander, Newfoundland have aviation connections, as the airport has been an important stop-off point for decades.

The Stockport area has a few themed estates, one which has streets named after sea birds, another after British painters & another after European cities.

Newton Heath has an estate where all the roads are named after the Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster.

[the cheesecake man]

Further options for naming your road include:

Stating the obvious: Steep Hill, Lincoln
Lying: Market Hill, Cambridge or Flat Street, Sheffield
Efficiently combining the name with restrictions: One Way Street, Sutterton
Promoting your political opinions: Rue de Brexit, Beaucaire

[Chris Bertram]

Further options for naming your road include:

Stating the obvious: Steep Hill, Lincoln

However:
Steep Hill, Chobham. Flat as the proverbial pancake.

[the cheesecake man]

Further options for naming your road include:

Stating the obvious: Steep Hill, Lincoln

However:
Steep Hill, Chobham. Flat as the proverbial pancake.

Just like my Market Hill example!

[Chris Bertram]

Further options for naming your road include:

Stating the obvious: Steep Hill, Lincoln

However:
Steep Hill, Chobham. Flat as the proverbial pancake.

Just like my Market Hill example!

Your Market Hill at least seems to have a market on it.

[the cheesecake man]

However:
Steep Hill, Chobham. Flat as the proverbial pancake.

Just like my Market Hill example!

Your Market Hill at least seems to have a market on it.

But it's probably even flatter and further from anything resembling a decent hill. On the way home from university we used to play "Spot The Hill" where the first person to point a decent hill after nine weeks won. There wasn't one until the A1 in Rutland.

[vlad]

Further options for naming your road include:

Lying: Flat Street, Sheffield

That's Sheffield. Compared with other roads it is flat.

[Vierwielen]

Just like my Market Hill example!

Your Market Hill at least seems to have a market on it.

But it's probably even flatter and further from anything resembling a decent hill. On the way home from university we used to play "Spot The Hill" where the first person to point a decent hill after nine weeks won. There wasn't one until the A1 in Rutland.

Ever been to the Netherlands? Their highest point is 323 meters above sea level, but they share that point wth the Germans and the Belgians. Apart from the hills between there and Maastricht, nothing is over 50 metres above sea level.

[RichardA626]

Your Market Hill at least seems to have a market on it.

But it's probably even flatter and further from anything resembling a decent hill. On the way home from university we used to play "Spot The Hill" where the first person to point a decent hill after nine weeks won. There wasn't one until the A1 in Rutland.

Ever been to the Netherlands? Their highest point is 323 meters above sea level, but they share that point wth the Germans and the Belgians. Apart from the hills between there and Maastricht, nothing is over 50 metres above sea level.

The American Mid West from Texas to the Canadian prairies must be even more dramatic in terms of flatness.

[FleetlinePhil]

The Stockport area has a few themed estates, one which has streets named after sea birds, another after British painters & another after European cities.

Bosden Farm, I assume? I remember my very early days in the Schedules Office at Stockport, and being mildly amused (yet slightly horrified) that nobody there knew that Turnstones, Shearwaters or Sanderlings were birds.

Newton Heath has an estate where all the roads are named after the Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster.

I didn't know that - my football allegiance is with the other lot . It took a bit of finding on Google Maps, which doesn't show all the named streets, nor are they all shown on GSV. Late 1970s or early 1980s vintage, at a guess?

[Isleworth1961]

I do like the use of Tailspin Lane and Slipstream Court, and the nod to De Havilland and Sopwith is nice.

I couldn't find, or work out which ones they were.

[Isleworth1961]

The Mackworth Estate in Derby has all but one of the roads named after areas, suburbs or well-known roads in the London area.

[the cheesecake man]

But it's probably even flatter and further from anything resembling a decent hill. On the way home from university we used to play "Spot The Hill" where the first person to point a decent hill after nine weeks won. There wasn't one until the A1 in Rutland.

Ever been to the Netherlands? Their highest point is 323 meters above sea level, but they share that point wth the Germans and the Belgians. Apart from the hills between there and Maastricht, nothing is over 50 metres above sea level.

Only Amsterdam, but I did spend three years at university in the Strange Land Of East Anglia. The Fens are similar (and of course were drained by a Dutchman). Many people find them boring but I find them interesting and majestic (obviously this partly due to living in Sheffield). The only "hills" are the river banks. There are few contour lines except 0m. Ely Cathedral is only 20m above sea level. The first time I went north of Ely towards Littleport I wondered "where's the river gone?" then realised "it's up there!" Sometimes I came home at the end of term, walked up a hill and thought "oh dear I haven't used that muscle for a while".

I remember a question in one of those silly newspaper columns "Do Dutch driving tests include a hill start?". The reply was "Yes: they've got an artificial hill to do them on"!

[RichardA626]

The Stockport area has a few themed estates, one which has streets named after sea birds, another after British painters & another after European cities.

Bosden Farm, I assume? I remember my very early days in the Schedules Office at Stockport, and being mildly amused (yet slightly horrified) that nobody there knew that Turnstones, Shearwaters or Sanderlings were birds.

Newton Heath has an estate where all the roads are named after the Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster.

I didn't know that - my football allegiance is with the other lot . It took a bit of finding on Google Maps, which doesn't show all the named streets, nor are they all shown on GSV. Late 1970s or early 1980s vintage, at a guess?

A pair of twins who were friends of my sister lived on the Bosden Farm estate.

It was by chance I found the estate in Newton Heath, from an address I saw at work.

[Big Nick]

I do like the use of Tailspin Lane and Slipstream Court, and the nod to De Havilland and Sopwith is nice.

I couldn't find, or work out which ones they were.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Sop ... 6665?hl=en