Roads with 4 (or more) words in their names
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I googled some of the names and it seems like these roads are named after people noted for their military service. I've heard of van der Post who was also an author, philosopher, explorer and spiritual adviser to Prince Charles. Killick was later an ambassador and one of the others was an SOE agent executed by the Nazis. I wonder if some kind of military camp or barracks used to be on this site. It is unusual to see so many roads with full names.Scratchwood wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 12:19Slightly 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!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.
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St Johns Wood Road
Prince of Wales Road
Leeds and Bradford Road
New Street Bus Link
Oxclose Park Road North
Old Scotch Spring Lane
Old Brick Works Lane
Mellor Lea Farm Chase
Mellor Lea Farm Close
Mellor Lea Farm Drive
Mellor Lea Farm Garth
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Ley Hill Farm Road in Northfield, Birmingham
Catherine de Barnes Lane in Solihull
Sir Henry Parkes Road in Coventry
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Just around the corner from that is Great King Street North.trickstat wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 21:57 New John Street West in Birmingham:
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Great Charles Street Queensway in central Brum.Steven wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 08:40 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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From the SABRE Wiki: A4150 :
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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Actually, thinking about it, it ought to be New John Street West Middleway, as it's part of the ring road, but somehow it seems to be the only part of the RR lacking that suffix.trickstat wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 21:57 New John Street West in Birmingham:
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I'm surprised there isn't a road in the area named after John Alcock, if not the whole airport.
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Repton Park South was named for British War Heroes. https://www.kentlive.news/news/nostalgi ... ed-3951650trickstat wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 15:30I googled some of the names and it seems like these roads are named after people noted for their military service. I've heard of van der Post who was also an author, philosopher, explorer and spiritual adviser to Prince Charles. Killick was later an ambassador and one of the others was an SOE agent executed by the Nazis. I wonder if some kind of military camp or barracks used to be on this site. It is unusual to see so many roads with full names.Scratchwood wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 12:19Slightly 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!
And yes, the army had Templer Barracks on the site, latterly used by the Intelligence Corps. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by ... ht=BingHyb
But I cannot find any links between these people and the Ashford area or this site.
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This sort of thing is quite common. I suppose it is a little like re-developing a site formerly occupied by a hospital (usually when a new hospital has been built elsewhere) and calling the new roads something like Lister Close, Nightingale Drive, Anderson Court and Fleming Avenue. Not because they had links with the area or the hospital but because they are linked to medicine.Big Nick wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 09:48Repton Park South was named for British War Heroes. https://www.kentlive.news/news/nostalgi ... ed-3951650trickstat wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 15:30I googled some of the names and it seems like these roads are named after people noted for their military service. I've heard of van der Post who was also an author, philosopher, explorer and spiritual adviser to Prince Charles. Killick was later an ambassador and one of the others was an SOE agent executed by the Nazis. I wonder if some kind of military camp or barracks used to be on this site. It is unusual to see so many roads with full names.Scratchwood wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 12:19
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!
And yes, the army had Templer Barracks on the site, latterly used by the Intelligence Corps. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by ... ht=BingHyb
But I cannot find any links between these people and the Ashford area or this site.
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Saintfield: Old Grand Jury Road and Manor
Bangor: Bay Lands First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Avenues - and each is signed with "Bay Lands" as two words rather than one.
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North Side Wandsworth Common (part of the A3/A205)
St. John's Wood Road (part of the A5205)
As well as St. John's Wood Terrace and St. John's Wood High Street (5 Worder!)
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L'Avenue et Dolmen du Pré des Lumières - Meadow of Lights Avenue and Dolmen
L'Avenue de la Reine Elizabeth II - Queen Elizabeth II Avenue (colloquially however the Airport Road).
Mont de la Grève de Lecq - Grève de Lecq Hill
There's a few names that are fun to say as well: Mont du Bu de la Rue - not sure what that means but it could be translated to Bu de la Rue Hill and La Rue du Douet de Rue - de Rue Stream Road (alternatively could be translated to The Road of the Stream of the Road).
La Rue du Mont de la Mare - La Mare Hill Road and its neighbour Le Chemin du Mont de la Mare - La Mare Hill Lane
Le Mont de la Mare St Catherine - La Mare St Catherine Hill
La Rue de la Pouclée et des Quatres Chemins - Dolmen and Four Lanes Road
La Rue de la Fontaine de St Martin - Fountain of St Martin Road
Most of the main roads have names like La Grande Route de St Jean, which means St John's Main Road
An English name example: Gorey Village Main Road
There's also the Colloquial names of St Clement's Coast road and St Clement's Inner Road though the former is officially called in England just the Coast Main Road.
There is the Vallée des Vaux which in French only has three words but the English translation is longer "Valley of the Valleys" (though that may be me mistranslating).
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Or even better five words in Bury and Rochdale Old RoadFleetlinePhil wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 12:43 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?