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vlad wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:24 I'd say there are a number of these, for example:

Cat And Kittens Lane north of Wolverhampton.
City Of Three Waters near Coalville.
Plough And Harrow Road in Birmingham.
Sir Gerald Kaufman Close in Manchester.
There And Back Again Lane in Bristol.

Personally I find one-word street names far more interesting but that's another story.
One-word names are quite common on new town housing estates. Those are really not interesting at all.
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Chris Bertram wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:31
vlad wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:24 I'd say there are a number of these, for example:

Cat And Kittens Lane north of Wolverhampton.
City Of Three Waters near Coalville.
Plough And Harrow Road in Birmingham.
Sir Gerald Kaufman Close in Manchester.
There And Back Again Lane in Bristol.

Personally I find one-word street names far more interesting but that's another story.
One-word names are quite common on new town housing estates. Those are really not interesting at all.
The council estate near to me, with two exceptions*, has one-word names for all the addresses that lead off the main estate road in alphabetical order.

*The shopping precinct and the flats above has a two word name although it fits alphabetically along with the one other road that takes you off the estate.
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vlad wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:24 Personally I find one-word street names far more interesting but that's another story.
Dozens of those in Tamworth. Look at all the road names off Leyland Drive:
Allard
Belsize
Cowley
Dennis
Healey
Hillman
Jaguar
Jenson
Jowett
Lagonda
Napier
Riley
Sunbeam
Swift
Talbot
Triumph
Trojan
Wolseley
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I like the name Tak Ma Doon Road (Take Me Down Road). While not the scariest hill road, it is well named especially in winter conditions. Seen quite a number of accidents on it over the years.

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New Inn Hall Street, Oxford. This is named after New Inn Hall, which was a medieval hall of the University that closed in 1887.
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This stretch of the A30 near Heathrow is Great South-West Road:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4752306 ... 384!8i8192
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Thanks for all the input, folks. Really interesting. Please keep them coming.

I've actually thought of one, and found three, further instances of five-barrelled names:
Dick o' th' Banks Road, Crossways, Dorset https://goo.gl/maps/xTQqBCAdHSuzTndz5 (and I see there is a Dick o' th' Banks Close as well)
Head of the Hill Court, Tredegar https://goo.gl/maps/nBkpFXrnY7wTZWV88
Milton of Craigie Road North and South, Dundee https://goo.gl/maps/tw5EigHmgefC1A877
Cock and Yew Tree Hill, Winford, Somerset https://goo.gl/maps/J7m8AQiJ39X2ymRKA

Then I've thought of a few more Dorset fours:
New Zealand Farm Close, Bridport https://goo.gl/maps/dgb5ygvCPUjFyrZf6
R. L. Stevenson Avenue, Bournemouth https://goo.gl/maps/E3fHpYxjfgW9SDY46 (Google Maps lists it as Robert Louis Stevenson Avenue but postally and on signage it's R L)
White Cliff Mill Street, Blandford Forum https://goo.gl/maps/E3fHpYxjfgW9SDY46
New Harbour Road South, Poole Port https://goo.gl/maps/cp7evKx3wYR7GN376 (Google Maps also gives the North and West but only South is signed)
St Ives End Lane, St Ives https://goo.gl/maps/o6z6NCeJuJf1Htzz6

And researched and found lots more fours here and there. Among the most interesting, I think, are:
Bird-in-Eye Hill, Uckfield https://goo.gl/maps/EbH7hxyWj1ae3zKb7
Back of Mount Pleasant, Tewksebury https://goo.gl/maps/yQrHTqwsQDWnLK228
Arm and Sword Lane, Hatfield https://goo.gl/maps/29tWTocvscgVQDoj9
Cut and Fry Road, Lydney https://goo.gl/maps/YbQAGE8DBKF4ENnB9

...the truly mysterious...

Fair-a-Far Shot in Edinburgh https://goo.gl/maps/ZpuxRdb8aJziUaTw8

...and my current favourite:

Dog In The Lane, near Telford https://goo.gl/maps/N9TPt8tzySAqALybA !
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After thinking for a while, I came up with Rochester Way Relief Road.
Someone already said Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach, so how about Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach?
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What about the M25?

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MotorwayPlannerM21 wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 23:56 After thinking for a while, I came up with Rochester Way Relief Road.
That was the one I immediately thought of when I saw this thread, as one of the most important 4 word roads, but you just beat me too it :D

Not too far away in Charlton is "Anchor and Hope lane" which leads to a similarly named pub by the Thames!
"Duke of Wellington Avenue" is further along the river in Woolwich
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Al__S wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:28 I believe the only example of this with Cambridge (though not the shire) is "Dame Mary Archer Way", on the Addenbrooke's hospital site. Bonus points for containing no conjunctions or articles?
Ultimate challenge: any without a road-type in the name?
Cambridge also has Adam and Eve Street, and Little St Mary's Lane. One other I'm aware of is South Park Hill Road in Croydon.

Having downloaded it, the list of publicly maintained roads in the county also has: Red Lodge Link Road (Chippenham), Horseley Fen Middle Drove (Sutton), Long North Fen Drove (Sutton), Isle of Ely Way (A141 Chatteris-March), John F Kennedy Court (Wisbech), Prince of Wales Close (Wisbech), Milk and Water Drove (Farcet), High Fen Straight Drove and High Fen Crooked Drove (Warboys - this is a good pair), Second Turf Fen Drove (Warboys), Down Hall Farm Road (Abingdon Pigotts), Great North Fen Drove and Smithy Fen Engine Drove (Cottenham). The B1043 (old A1) is listed variously as Old Great North Road, The Old North Road and Old North Road. There are also bits of bypassed roads whose official name is things like St Neots Road Old Alignment, but obviously these won't be signposted on the ground.
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TS wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 22:11 ..the truly mysterious...

Fair-a-Far Shot in Edinburgh https://goo.gl/maps/ZpuxRdb8aJziUaTw8
Likely related to the golf courses nearby
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Open Streetmap says the road up to Rest And Be Thankful is called Rest And Be Thankful.
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Sir Harry Lauder Road, aka the A199, aka the Portobello By-Pass.

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I've found perhaps the longest, in terms of letters in its name, for a four-word name:

Blairmuckhole and Forestdyke Road https://goo.gl/maps/w8Fexry62qrZfnwv7
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Have we missed a rather important one in Scotland - General Wade's Military Road?
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Chris Bertram wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:31 One-word names are quite common on new town housing estates. Those are really not interesting at all.
The council estates at Hemlington are some of the worst offenders, know locally as the ABCD's they seem to have simply picked a letter and worked their way through the dictionary. The A's start with Aberfalls Road and end with Aviemore Road.
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Big Nick wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 09:09 Have we missed a rather important one in Scotland - General Wade's Military Road?
Which one ? there were several.
http://www.oldroadsofscotland.com/milit ... s.htm#wade
https://maps.nls.uk/view/74400311
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There’s definitely a Bettws-y-Coed Road in Cardiff.

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Alderpoint wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:53
vlad wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:24 Personally I find one-word street names far more interesting but that's another story.
Dozens of those in Tamworth. Look at all the road names off Leyland Drive:
Allard
Belsize
Cowley
Dennis
Healey
Hillman
Jaguar
Jenson
Jowett
Lagonda
Napier
Riley
Sunbeam
Swift
Talbot
Triumph
Trojan
Wolseley
They've missed out Rover, which lasted longer than almost all of those. Outrageous!
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