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vlad wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 20:24Personally I find one-word street names far more interesting but that's another story.
The shortest is surely:
Dob https://goo.gl/maps/xqfKFsBG77o9URVw5
Alt https://goo.gl/maps/G96JLLpdwaNwk7kw9
Rye https://goo.gl/maps/fPWFXaWiajvbebGt5

Just helping to derail my own thread!!
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TS wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 12:04
Top o' th' Hill Road in Todmorden https://goo.gl/maps/1DHdgwBZ8SLTTkyv7
I was actually going to suggest Top o'th' Close Road as my local entry, partly because it is visible from the A6033, partly because Google Maps commits my pet peeve of shortening it to "Top o'th' Cl Rd" and partly because it has a mildly botched roadsign - it is possible to drive out the other end back onto the A6033.

I can't see any reference on the thread to a more impressive Calderdale example - the the A644 Brighouse and Denholmegate Road through Shelf. Google Maps wants to split Denholme and Gate to add a further word, although further north beyond Queensbury the A644 is just Brighouse and Denholme Road.

Similarly, the A58 Bury and Bolton Road. I suspect this sort of example came about where a main road passed through an intermediate smaller local authority, and they did not want to give preference to one town over the other?
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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?
Plenty in Tamworth - many of the new estate roads are single words, eg Craven
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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?
There's the aforementioned Land of Green Ginger.
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skiddaw05 wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 12:17 Here's a five worder
There can't be many Plains in the UK.
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Big Nick wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 16:05
skiddaw05 wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 12:17 Here's a five worder
There can't be many Plains in the UK.
Salisbury? :coat:
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Big Nick wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 16:05
skiddaw05 wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 12:17 Here's a five worder
There can't be many Plains in the UK.
There's "The Plain", a roundabout junction at the east end of Magdalen Bridge in Oxford, being the junction of A420, B480 and A4158. Actually, a check on Streetmap suggests there are quite a few more streets with that name.
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Big Nick wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 16:05
skiddaw05 wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 12:17 Here's a five worder
There can't be many Plains in the UK.


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Alderpoint wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 20:04
Ruperts Trooper wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 13:14 Plenty in Tamworth - many of the new estate roads are single words, eg Craven
Clearly you didn't read this thread yesterday.
Ahem. As threads get longer, it's easier for people not to read right back to the beginning of the thread. This isn't a sin, so please go easy on those who don't - a polite pointer back to the original reference might be in order, but let's keep it civilized, however we do it.
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In Ashford, Kent, there is a four word name ("Sir John Killick Way") that meets a five word name ("Laurens van der Post Way"). And that in turn meets another four word name
("Sir Henry Brackenberry Road").

The map of all three of them is here.

In Canterbury there is also "Wife of Bath Hill" in an estate named after the characters from The Canterbury Tales.

The Channel Tunnel Terminal is surrounded by "Terminal Service Ring Road".
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In Boston, we have North Forty Foot Bank

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There's actually a section of F99 with this property: the A38 Northfield bypass in Birmingham is "Sir Herbert Austin Way". "The new A38" or "the bypass" is a much faster way to refer to it, though. (The road's usual name in that part of Birmingham is "Bristol Road South" – fair enough, it does actually go to Bristol – but that name stuck to the original path of the A38, so the new route needed a new name to avoid ambiguity.)
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.03557 ... 312!8i6656
Lighter Than Air Road. Despite the armed personnel on the entrance, I managed to cycle along it yesterday cause it is a PRoW, although the "Public Bridleway" Sign is missing from the this side of the camp.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.08334 ... 312!8i6656
Old Brighton Road (South)
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De La Warr Parade (although I couldn't find a name plate on GSV)
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jervi wrote: Wed May 20, 2020 04:20 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.03557 ... 312!8i6656
Lighter Than Air Road. Despite the armed personnel on the entrance, I managed to cycle along it yesterday cause it is a PRoW, although the "Public Bridleway" Sign is missing from the this side of the camp.
In streetview, it looks like the bridleway sign is attached to the post of the "stop" sign - a rather unconventional way of installing it.
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SteelCamel wrote: Wed May 20, 2020 08:50
jervi wrote: Wed May 20, 2020 04:20 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.03557 ... 312!8i6656
Lighter Than Air Road. Despite the armed personnel on the entrance, I managed to cycle along it yesterday cause it is a PRoW, although the "Public Bridleway" Sign is missing from the this side of the camp.
In streetview, it looks like the bridleway sign is attached to the post of the "stop" sign - a rather unconventional way of installing it.
Oh yeah, so it is. Not surprised that I missed it in that case.
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Manchester Airport Eastern Link Road is a five worder. And yes, that's its official name for now until they no doubt find a Z lister to name it after.

Do the turnpikes around here with names like Bury and Bolton Road count? See also Preston Lancaster New Road.

However, for the real insanity you must head west. After it was rebuilt post Katrina, the I-10 Twin Span in Louisana was renamed The Frank Davis "Naturally N'Awlins" Memorial Bridge. Go on, I dare you to beat a 7 worder.
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Bryn666 wrote: Wed May 20, 2020 12:04 Manchester Airport Eastern Link Road is a five worder. And yes, that's its official name for now until they no doubt find a Z lister to name it after.
Howard Webb Road would be appropriate for all the man did for football in Manchester.
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Gareth Thomas wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 23:10 In Ashford, Kent, there is a four word name ("Sir John Killick Way") that meets a five word name ("Laurens van der Post Way"). And that in turn meets another four word name ("Sir Henry Brackenberry Road").

The map of all three of them is here.
Slightly off topic, but why does Ashford have an estate named after people, who although eminent, seem to have no obvious local collection, and aren't nationally famous either!
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