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gepree68 wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 09:32 Along Northover Road, from east to west on the left-hand side, the numbers go 130, 128, 126, ..., 26, 24 and then 22. But then there are no more even numbers. 22 is the lowest.

When building the road did they start numbering from high to low, and someone miscalculated how many numbers they would need?

And is that why there is no house with number 20, 18, 16, ..., 6, 4 or 2?
There is a cul de sac called Northover Close next to number 22 with a block of flats on it. Maybe it was originally planned to have flats that were accessed from Northover Road?
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trickstat wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:09
gepree68 wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 09:32 Along Northover Road, from east to west on the left-hand side, the numbers go 130, 128, 126, ..., 26, 24 and then 22. But then there are no more even numbers. 22 is the lowest.

When building the road did they start numbering from high to low, and someone miscalculated how many numbers they would need?

And is that why there is no house with number 20, 18, 16, ..., 6, 4 or 2?
There is a cul de sac called Northover Close next to number 22 with a block of flats on it. Maybe it was originally planned to have flats that were accessed from Northover Road?
But there is a similar gap in numbers on the other side of Northover Road.

The house numbers from east to west on the right-hand side are 37, 35, 33, 19, 17, 15, 13, 11, 9. 7, 5, 3, 1A.

So Northover Road has missing odd numbers: 31, 29, 27, 25, 23 and 21. And missing even numbers 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2.
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gepree68 wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 16:09
trickstat wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:09
gepree68 wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 09:32 Along Northover Road, from east to west on the left-hand side, the numbers go 130, 128, 126, ..., 26, 24 and then 22. But then there are no more even numbers. 22 is the lowest.

When building the road did they start numbering from high to low, and someone miscalculated how many numbers they would need?

And is that why there is no house with number 20, 18, 16, ..., 6, 4 or 2?
There is a cul de sac called Northover Close next to number 22 with a block of flats on it. Maybe it was originally planned to have flats that were accessed from Northover Road?
But there is a similar gap in numbers on the other side of Northover Road.

The house numbers from east to west on the right-hand side are 37, 35, 33, 19, 17, 15, 13, 11, 9. 7, 5, 3, 1A.

So Northover Road has missing odd numbers: 31, 29, 27, 25, 23 and 21. And missing even numbers 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2.
17 and 19 are large detached houses. Perhaps there was a plan to have a block of 8 flats on the land on which these stand?
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The road I grew up on in a village in Somerset had number 1 at one end, and number 3 at the other end, with everything in between having a name instead. No one knew why

The street I live on now is an Edwardian terraced street numbered consecutively up one side and back down the other, while all the other nearby streets of a similar age are numbered normally with evens on one side.

But then Somerset is a bit weird
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Herned wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 21:27 The road I grew up on in a village in Somerset had number 1 at one end, and number 3 at the other end, with everything in between having a name instead. No one knew why
I wonder if the numbered houses were built later and the respective builders didn't suggest any names so they were just given numbers by the Local Authority? I would be surprised if a Local Authority insisted on numbers on a street where all the other houses have names.
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Herned wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 21:27 The road I grew up on in a village in Somerset had number 1 at one end, and number 3 at the other end, with everything in between having a name instead. No one knew why
I now live on a cul-de-sac in Hampshire where there are 11 houses. All are named, except for four, which share a single name and are numbered 1-4. Their addresses sound like a house number and street name, but they’re not. Number 1 is furthest from the entrance to the street. And down the other end, one of the names houses has been split into two separate dwellings which now share the same name and have no differentiating number or name to tell them apart :roll:
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trickstat wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 23:34 I wonder if the numbered houses were built later and the respective builders didn't suggest any names so they were just given numbers by the Local Authority? I would be surprised if a Local Authority insisted on numbers on a street where all the other houses have names.
Hard to tell as they were all at least 150 years old, with no doubt major alterations. Possible that the owners didn't bother giving them names, or perhaps they were owned by the same landlord at one time?
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Chris5156 wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 09:28 I now live on a cul-de-sac in Hampshire where there are 11 houses. All are named, except for four, which share a single name and are numbered 1-4. Their addresses sound like a house number and street name, but they’re not. Number 1 is furthest from the entrance to the street. And down the other end, one of the names houses has been split into two separate dwellings which now share the same name and have no differentiating number or name to tell them apart :roll:
That's nuts. Must lead to some interesting conversations with utility providers etc
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Herned wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:32
Chris5156 wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 09:28 I now live on a cul-de-sac in Hampshire where there are 11 houses. All are named, except for four, which share a single name and are numbered 1-4. Their addresses sound like a house number and street name, but they’re not. Number 1 is furthest from the entrance to the street. And down the other end, one of the names houses has been split into two separate dwellings which now share the same name and have no differentiating number or name to tell them apart :roll:
That's nuts. Must lead to some interesting conversations with utility providers etc
And delivery drivers. For extra bonus points, our house shares its name with the street (X House, X Road) so drivers in a hurry or who haven’t read the address properly tend to just dump parcels on our doorstep.
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Chris5156 wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:55 And delivery drivers. For extra bonus points, our house shares its name with the street (X House, X Road) so drivers in a hurry or who haven’t read the address properly tend to just dump parcels on our doorstep.
I used to live at 72 Boxtree Lane, which was off Boxtree Road. We regularly exchanged parcels with the people at 72 Boxtree Road
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Herned wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:59 I used to live at 72 Boxtree Lane, which was off Boxtree Road. We regularly exchanged parcels with the people at 72 Boxtree Road
Round here there's Westover Close, Westover Drive, Westover Gardens, Westover Rise and Westover Road.
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gepree68 wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 12:07
Herned wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:59 I used to live at 72 Boxtree Lane, which was off Boxtree Road. We regularly exchanged parcels with the people at 72 Boxtree Road
Round here there's Westover Close, Westover Drive, Westover Gardens, Westover Rise and Westover Road.
My cousin used to live on an estate with Meadow Drive, Meadow View, Meadow Close & Meadow Walk. all were odd shaped so it was hard to find her house as normally I couldn't park outside.

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Cannon Street in Wisbech numbers 1-33 consecutively, then 34-71 consecutively on the other side, with 33 opposite 37 due to a church.
Looking at historical maps, it used to be a road in two halves, so possibly renumbered when they were completed.
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Herned wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:59
Chris5156 wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:55 And delivery drivers. For extra bonus points, our house shares its name with the street (X House, X Road) so drivers in a hurry or who haven’t read the address properly tend to just dump parcels on our doorstep.
I used to live at 72 Boxtree Lane, which was off Boxtree Road. We regularly exchanged parcels with the people at 72 Boxtree Road
Like in some countries Austria and Australia or Slovakia and Slovenia have to exchange post?
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The various series of A House Through Time have shown several have changed number a few times as more properties were built. Can't remember an exact example right now, where the house numbers start at ten, eleven, upto fifteen or twenty. But a railway was cut a cross and what was Victoria Road is now North Victoria Road and South Victoria Road.
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gepree68 wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 12:07
Herned wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:59 I used to live at 72 Boxtree Lane, which was off Boxtree Road. We regularly exchanged parcels with the people at 72 Boxtree Road
Round here there's Westover Close, Westover Drive, Westover Gardens, Westover Rise and Westover Road.
It's been discussed on SABRE before, but Leeds specialises in having whole districts of streets that share the same first part of their name.

For example, are you looking for Bayswater Road, Bayswater Place, Bayswater Mount, Bayswater Grove, Bayswater Row, Bayswater Terrace or Bayswater Crescent (which is not a crescent)? Or perhaps you're on the other side of the main road trying to differentiate Ashton Place, Ashton View, Ashton Mount, Ashton Terrace, Ashton Avenue and Ashton Street.

It doesn't help that these are streets of back-to-back terraces so they all look identical!
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A road near my parents’ house has the even numbers go ...194, 196, 206, 208, 212. A cul de sac sits where 210 was but 198 - 204 have never existed. 190, 192, 194, 196, 206 and 208 were all built at the same time.

The strangest one I can think of locally is Lynwood in Folkestone. Alder Road feeds straight into it, so on the let you have 1, 3, then Beech Close before it resumes with 29. All the houses, including those in the upper part of Beech Close, are identical and were built at the same time; and there are too many houses in Beech Close for those to be the “missing numbers”.
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London Road in Stoke has multiple jumps in the numbers and either side of the road are massively out of sequence with each other. I think this is largely down to the development along the road having taking place over a long period of time and not in a linear way. Plus clearly older houses have made way for newer ones and industrial sites have also been replaced by housing.

The thing that is really odd and annoys me is that around half way along the road there is a terrace of seven houses with the numbers 582-594, next to them is a set of ten maisonette houses which are numbered 598, 596, 602, 600, 606, 604, 610, 608, 614 and 612. The next set of housing then starts from 624.

I believe that where the maisonettes are there used to be a courtyard of very small cottages/terraces which may have accounted for a greater quantity of numbers. Still though I don't understand why the replacements ended up being numbered back to front!
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Westover Drive in Bristol does an "M65" in that the numbers go 1A, 1, 2, 3, ...

This is because 1A was built later than 1 to 9, and they couldn't give the new house number 0.
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Herned wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:59
Chris5156 wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:55 And delivery drivers. For extra bonus points, our house shares its name with the street (X House, X Road) so drivers in a hurry or who haven’t read the address properly tend to just dump parcels on our doorstep.
I used to live at 72 Boxtree Lane, which was off Boxtree Road. We regularly exchanged parcels with the people at 72 Boxtree Road
My parents live at 12 [redacted] Way, and another gentleman lives at 12 [redacted] Road. They often get his post.

I wouldn't mind but one is in BB2 and the other is in BB1, so the delivery bod just isn't assigning the package correctly.
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