Roads with 4 (or more) words in their names
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The UK may have some long street names, but not sure if they reach up to the length of some French ones
This is rue Charles Nugesser et François Coli, St Cyr (78). IIRC there are streets and squares with longer names in France.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@48.80195 ... 6656?hl=en
This is rue Charles Nugesser et François Coli, St Cyr (78). IIRC there are streets and squares with longer names in France.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@48.80195 ... 6656?hl=en
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Well, Berlin has Straße des 17. Juni, or 17th June Street in English. Formerly Charlottenburg Chaussee, it received its present name in 1953 after an uprising of the citizens of East Berlin which was, as was routine back then, brutally suppressed on that date. It's a wide boulevard that connects the Brandenburg Gate with the Charlottenburg Gate at the other end of the Tiergarten, with the Victory Column about halfway along, and has more recently been famous for the Love Parade and other mass-participation events.
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The Latin American countries often have streets named after a significant date.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 22:20 Well, Berlin has Straße des 17. Juni, or 17th June Street in English. Formerly Charlottenburg Chaussee, it received its present name in 1953 after an uprising of the citizens of East Berlin which was, as was routine back then, brutally suppressed on that date. It's a wide boulevard that connects the Brandenburg Gate with the Charlottenburg Gate at the other end of the Tiergarten, with the Victory Column about halfway along, and has more recently been famous for the Love Parade and other mass-participation events.
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Blaby near Leicester has the less peaceful sounding Dog and Gun Lane, no ampersand!Skipsy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 17:51I love the use of ampersand in the name, never seen that beforejervi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 19:59 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.41415 ... 312!8i6656
Dog & Duck Lane. Depends if you could & as a word. Either way I like ducks. Quack.
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Yes, and the way the languages are structured tends to generate multi-word names of the "Boulevard de la Revolution" type. The Berlin example stands out in German due to their practice of running words together to make single-word names like Goethestraße and Beethovenallee.RichardA626 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 22:22The Latin American countries often have streets named after a significant date.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 22:20 Well, Berlin has Straße des 17. Juni, or 17th June Street in English. Formerly Charlottenburg Chaussee, it received its present name in 1953 after an uprising of the citizens of East Berlin which was, as was routine back then, brutally suppressed on that date. It's a wide boulevard that connects the Brandenburg Gate with the Charlottenburg Gate at the other end of the Tiergarten, with the Victory Column about halfway along, and has more recently been famous for the Love Parade and other mass-participation events.
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Looking eastwards to Ipswich: Lower Dales View Road, the standard Prince of Wales Drive, and Sir Alf Ramsey Way, unsurprisingly leading to the football ground, and formerly known as Portmans Walk. Renamed when Sir Alf passed away.
Also nearby, and in the same obvious vein, is Sir Bobby Robson Bridge, but this is pedestrian only.
Sir Edward Stracey Road in Rackheath, near Norwich, whereas Bury St Edmunds has St Andrews Street North and South.
Finally, quite an important piece of road, the A14 Dock Spur, is officially known as Port Of Felixstowe Road.
Also nearby, and in the same obvious vein, is Sir Bobby Robson Bridge, but this is pedestrian only.
Sir Edward Stracey Road in Rackheath, near Norwich, whereas Bury St Edmunds has St Andrews Street North and South.
Finally, quite an important piece of road, the A14 Dock Spur, is officially known as Port Of Felixstowe Road.
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If you really want long names you need the former Soviet Union, where naming streets after various socialist ideas was normal - many have remained as it's not worth thinking up new names!
For example, this road is officially Проспект имени газеты "Красноярский Рабочий", ("Krasnoyarsk Workman" Newspaper Avenue) whilst this one is Проспект 50-летия Всесоюзного ленинского коммунистического союза молодёжи (50th Anniversary Of The All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union Avenue). Both are abbreviated in everyday conversation....
For example, this road is officially Проспект имени газеты "Красноярский Рабочий", ("Krasnoyarsk Workman" Newspaper Avenue) whilst this one is Проспект 50-летия Всесоюзного ленинского коммунистического союза молодёжи (50th Anniversary Of The All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union Avenue). Both are abbreviated in everyday conversation....
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South Park Hill Road, Croydon. Scene of a famous unsolved murder from the 1920s.
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I spotted this one, Old Drill Hall Road in Cefn Coed, Merthyr Tydfil this morning when walking on the Taff Trail.
https://goo.gl/maps/zVJn9My1MReQ51k66
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A similar one is Bread and Cheese Lane near Cheshunt!
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7319636 ... 384!8i8192
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They are especially with plum sauce and pancakes.
West Yorkshire seems to be the have the most four word street names:
Ring Road Lower Wortley
Mill Carr Hill Road
Ring Road Beeston Park
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Green Lane (Industrial Park), also a very rare example of a street name with brackets in it.
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Resurrecting this topic again (apologies if I've missed mention of it earlier) but how about Ducks and Green Pease Row in Pontefract. Admittedly it's more a passageway than road but still had me choking on my Haribo.
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I was in Kings Langley last week, and walked along the mouthful that is "Home Park Mill Link".
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7061896 ... 384!8i8192
For some reason Google Maps calls it "Home Park Mill Link Road", but I'm not sure the 5th word is correct!
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7063736 ... 4036,17.5z
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7061896 ... 384!8i8192
For some reason Google Maps calls it "Home Park Mill Link Road", but I'm not sure the 5th word is correct!
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7063736 ... 4036,17.5z
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Sir Winston Churchill Place in Coventry
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.39261 ... 6656?hl=en
Duke of Wellington Avenue in London
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.49290 ... 8192?hl=en
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.39261 ... 6656?hl=en
Duke of Wellington Avenue in London
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.49290 ... 8192?hl=en
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Green Street Green Road makes no sense at first, but then you realise there is a place named Green Street Green.
Could this be the only road that has a repeated word in it?
Could this be the only road that has a repeated word in it?
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Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate is probably the nearest thing to another example.
Unless there's an East Grinstead Road East or similar.
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Bristol to Bath Railway Path? Not sure it counts as a road...