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Roads with 4 (or more) words in their names

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I am looking for examples of roads with at least four words in their names.

We have a few hereabouts:
St Swithun's Road South and Durley Chine Road South, both where the original road has been revamped for parts of a ring road, and are now split in two.
Prince of Wales Road is, I imagine, a common name and I expect there are a few Duke of York Roads as well.
Queen's Park West Drive and Queen's Park South Drive for slightly more unusual positioning of the compass-point word.

I've come across a couple of 5s, those being St John's Wood High Street in London and There And Back Again Lane in Bristol.

I expect there are a few more in the pattern of maybe Sir Xxx Xxx Road, or Rose and Crown Close on the site of a former pub.

But what others are there?
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Coventry has Coat of Arms Bridge Road, named for a bridge over the railway that has a coat of arms on it.
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Gamston Lings Bar Road, part of the A52 Nottingham ring road.
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Upper Batley Low Lane in Batley, Land of Green Ginger in Hull and Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate in York.
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The different sections of A4150 all have four word names of the format "Ring Road St. Patrick's". The equivalent in Coventry and Birmingham are "Ringway" and "Queensway", so are only three words long.

There are also a few "Sir Bob Smith Way" type roads dotted around the country.
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The A4150 (also known as the Wolverhampton Inner Ring Road) forms a loop of the city centre of just over two miles, meeting the vast majority of the radial routes heading into the city centre.

It is entirely dual carriageway throughout its length, and the individual sections (except one) are named after nearby churches. The number A4150 does not appear on any signs throughout its length, and indeed is only used at the nearby roundabout junction between Waterloo Road

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Does the Sir Steve Redgrave Bridge count? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.50587 ... .67z?hl=en

East India Dock Road, West India Dock Road

It's easier when you add in a title, but some are easier for places or buildings than roads.
How do you say Charles II Street? I'd say it as Charles the Second Street. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.50785 ... .17z?hl=en

Duke of Cambridge Close, Twickenham
Duke of Wellington Avenue
Duke of Wellington Place
Duke Street St James https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.50769 ... .46z?hl=en
Duke of York Street

And finally, does the B4351 have a name? Could it possibly be the Hay-on-Wye Road? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.08085 ... .55z?hl=en
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Green Street Green Road to the south of Dartford:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Green ... d0.2592327
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The B1095 between Pondersbridge and Stanground is called Milk and Water Drove
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There are a few in the centre of Edinburgh:

Rose Street North Lane & Rose Street South Lane
Similarly, Young Street and Hill Street both have North and South Lanes
Thistle Street takes it a step further and we get Thistle Street North East Lane, with associated variants for NW, SE and SW
Going a little further out, we have North West Circus Place, North East Circus Place and South East Circus Place. Curiously there is no South West Circus Place; there is a street where you would expect to find that name, but it's called Circus Gardens.

There are a few other examples around the New Town, where a street has lanes behind it which take the name of the street, add a compass point prefix and the Lane suffix.

Going to the very edge of Edinburgh, the A720 is called The City of Edinburgh Bypass.
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Calling it a "road" is a bit of a stretch, but my favourite in Wigan has always been King of Prussia Yard.
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Pudding and Dip Lane gets there using "and".
I'm surprised nobody has suggested any bypasses which relieve two places at once.

In Dublin there is South Great George's Street which combines two prefixes. Similarly St John's Road West.
Big Nick wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 08:45 It's easier when you add in a title, but some are easier for places or buildings than roads.
How do you say Charles II Street? I'd say it as Charles the Second Street. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.50785 ... .17z?hl=en
Similar confusion with the busiest candidate we are likely to find: QEII Bridge.
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In my neck of the woods, we have Upper Golf Links Road and Lower Golf Links Road in Broadstone, Dorset.
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In Old Trafford is Sir Matt Busby Way, which was originally part of Warwick Road.
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A particularly exotic sounding one is Land of Green Ginger in Hull.

I'll try to come up with some more local to me.
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Could we count Horace Waller V C Parade or John Ormsby V C Way in Dewsbury?
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Let it snow.
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Does Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate (in York) count? Streetmap lists it both with and without hyphens. However, the street sign seems to include them.
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Alderpoint wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 10:20 Bread and Meat Close in Warwick.
Or is it Bread & Meat Close ?
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I've found this one online but it appears to be more of a path than a road but exists as an address:

https://londonist.com/london/best-of-lo ... treet-name

The article also mentions Stoke Newington Church Street which is quite a major road in that part of London.
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