Roads with 4 (or more) words in their names
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Cardiff has a King George V Drive North (and the same East, and the same West). I would pronounce those as King George The Fifth Drive North, so perhaps you can count them as six words each. Other towns also have streets with names beginning King George V.
The full official name of the A580 is Liverpool - East Lancashire Road, so at least four words, or five if you pronounce the hyphen somehow, perhaps as "to".
Given that there's a village called Green Street Green, it ought to have some potential ... yes, there's a Green Street Green Road ... damn! Telstarbox has mentioned it already, but I can add that part of it would seem to have the address Green Street Green Road, Lane End.
The full official name of the A580 is Liverpool - East Lancashire Road, so at least four words, or five if you pronounce the hyphen somehow, perhaps as "to".
Given that there's a village called Green Street Green, it ought to have some potential ... yes, there's a Green Street Green Road ... damn! Telstarbox has mentioned it already, but I can add that part of it would seem to have the address Green Street Green Road, Lane End.
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The best I can do is: Stainsacre Lane To Raikes Lane. An otherwise un-named road between, well, you get the idea. There are five properties and 14 electors on this road, so it had to be assigned some sort of name.
I also have Lane To Whitby Light and Sneaton to Ugglebarnby, and - unfortunately - Road Going West.
I also have Lane To Whitby Light and Sneaton to Ugglebarnby, and - unfortunately - Road Going West.
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Havant: Park House Farm Way
Tenuous: Guildford and Godalming Bypass Road
Tenuous: Guildford and Godalming Bypass Road
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Well, I paged through the thread and was surprised not to find Cheylesmore And Stivichall Bypass, being A444 between the Coventry bypass and the London Road junction.
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There are quite a lot of roads which were known at the time of their planning and construction as "X and Y bypass" though sadly not always shown as such on maps and atlases today.
Possibly the longest name of this type was the Horsley, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Throckley and Walbottle Bypass:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/iss ... /page/9330
Others included the Ripley, Swanwick and Alfreton bypass and the Whaley Bridge and Chapel-en-le-Frith bypass.
Possibly the longest name of this type was the Horsley, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Throckley and Walbottle Bypass:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/iss ... /page/9330
Others included the Ripley, Swanwick and Alfreton bypass and the Whaley Bridge and Chapel-en-le-Frith bypass.
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Sir Cyril Black Way - https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4185954 ... 384!8i8192
Prince of Wales Road - https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3755067 ... 384!8i8192
Prince of Wales Road - https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3755067 ... 384!8i8192
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I wonder if you know why the A202 here on google maps is labelled as the 'Peckham - Camberwell - Vauxhall - Westminster Highway", and if that even officially counts?wrinkly wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 14:50 There are quite a lot of roads which were known at the time of their planning and construction as "X and Y bypass" though sadly not always shown as such on maps and atlases today.
Possibly the longest name of this type was the Horsley, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Throckley and Walbottle Bypass:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/iss ... /page/9330
Others included the Ripley, Swanwick and Alfreton bypass and the Whaley Bridge and Chapel-en-le-Frith bypass.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4754731 ... 674,14.75z
(You have to zoom in a little bit for it to show up)
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It says Camberwell New Road if you zoom in further, and I see signs saying that if you go to streetview.Skipsy wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 19:16I wonder if you know why the A202 here on google maps is labelled as the 'Peckham - Camberwell - Vauxhall - Westminster Highway", and if that even officially counts?wrinkly wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 14:50 There are quite a lot of roads which were known at the time of their planning and construction as "X and Y bypass" though sadly not always shown as such on maps and atlases today.
Possibly the longest name of this type was the Horsley, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Throckley and Walbottle Bypass:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/iss ... /page/9330
Others included the Ripley, Swanwick and Alfreton bypass and the Whaley Bridge and Chapel-en-le-Frith bypass.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4754731 ... 674,14.75z
(You have to zoom in a little bit for it to show up)
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For me it only shows that name instantaneously, when I'm going from one zoom level to the next!Skipsy wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 19:16 I wonder if you know why the A202 here on google maps is labelled as the 'Peckham - Camberwell - Vauxhall - Westminster Highway", and if that even officially counts?
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4754731 ... 674,14.75z
(You have to zoom in a little bit for it to show up)
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I was about to post that one but you've beaten me to it (by over a year ).
The mouthwatering name is almost certainly not a reference to Fred Astaire's famous culinary disaster (the time he got pudding on his top hat and pudding on his tails) but to local unpowered coal barges called Tom Puddings.
Over in Leeds there's Low Moor Side Lane. Is that the lane at the side of the low moor, of the lane at the low side of the moor, or the low lane at the side of the moor?
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I think the "Highway" bit has come from mangling the geodata for Cycle Superhighway 5 which runs along the A202, although only from Vauxhall Bridge to Oval station.Skipsy wrote:
I wonder if you know why the A202 here on google maps is labelled as the 'Peckham - Camberwell - Vauxhall - Westminster Highway", and if that even officially counts?
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4754731 ... 674,14.75z
(You have to zoom in a little bit for it to show up)
Re: Roads with 4 (or more) words in their names
Dublin's got a few, but many based on using cardinal directions.
North/South/East/West Saint Stephens Green
North / South Great Georges Street
Saint Johns Road East/West - neither of these are even close to each other.
Sir John Rogersons Quay
North/South/East/West Saint Stephens Green
North / South Great Georges Street
Saint Johns Road East/West - neither of these are even close to each other.
Sir John Rogersons Quay
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Well I suppose there is always
"The London-Carlisle-Glasgow-Inverness Trunk Road"
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/198 ... view=plain
"The London-Carlisle-Glasgow-Inverness Trunk Road"
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/198 ... view=plain
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Torquay has Braddons Hill Road East, Braddons Hill Road West and Upper Braddons Hill Road. Also a St Luke's Road North and St Luke's Road South.
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Sally in the Wood near Bath, very odd name for a road, there's also a street in Bristol called Free Tank.
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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.
Dog & Duck Lane. Depends if you could & as a word. Either way I like ducks. Quack.
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On the Isle of Wight, there's St John's Wood Road and Upper St. James's Street.
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I 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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Ducks are good.jervi 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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