Amusing road names
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What is a Covert?
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a thicket in which game can hide. Apparentlyroverman wrote:What is a Covert?
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In Norwich we have Unthank Road. The origins of this is it's the road that led from Norwich to the nearby village of Ketteringham where the Unthank family lived. If you visit the village church the graveyard is full of them.
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One or two of them escaped to Leicestershire too.Derek wrote: In Norwich we have Unthank Road. The origins of this is it's the road that led from Norwich to the nearby village of Ketteringham where the Unthank family lived. If you visit the village church the graveyard is full of them.
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Time to give this one a dust off I think, as I've just found "Crooked Usage" in London, N3
Given the size of the houses, I wonder who acquired wealth here in shady ways?
Given the size of the houses, I wonder who acquired wealth here in shady ways?
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In Hull city centre, old street called Land of Green Ginger.
There is a property on this street with the postal address
2nd Star on the Right
And straight on till morning
Land of Green Ginger
Hull
There is a property on this street with the postal address
2nd Star on the Right
And straight on till morning
Land of Green Ginger
Hull
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This road name makes me smile.. the Hawes sounds like a posh person saying Holes... The Asshawes... heath charnock near chorley..
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Sir Titus Salt named the streets of Saltaire after members of the royal family and of his own.
This, inevitably, is every schoolboy's favourite.
This, inevitably, is every schoolboy's favourite.
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The B9112 in Perth is called Necessity Brae - vital for getting up the hill, obviously.
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I remember seeing that when I visited.ellandback wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 12:48 Sir Titus Salt named the streets of Saltaire after members of the royal family and of his own.
This, inevitably, is every schoolboy's favourite.
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The Dingle, Stapenhill, Burton on Trent
This is A Road. (B Road and C Road are nearby)
Flat Street, Sheffield is a hill but Market Hill, Cambridge is flat.
This is A Road. (B Road and C Road are nearby)
Flat Street, Sheffield is a hill but Market Hill, Cambridge is flat.
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A nice example of a road name, that appears to be a bit tautological. In the north of Hertfordshire is the hamlet of "Hare Street". Thus naturally the road between there and Buntingford is called "Hare Street Road"!
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We have "Avenue Road" near here.Scratchwood wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 10:38 A nice example of a road name, that appears to be a bit tautological. In the north of Hertfordshire is the hamlet of "Hare Street". Thus naturally the road between there and Buntingford is called "Hare Street Road"!
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Make that ex Central Government War Headquarters.
It was decommissioned in 2005 and most of it is up for sale. The MOD do still have a presence there in the form of a computer data centre and cyber security centre with the fancy name of Defence Digital.
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By Cambridge standards its positively Alpinethe cheesecake man wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:45 The Dingle, Stapenhill, Burton on Trent
This is A Road. (B Road and C Road are nearby)
Flat Street, Sheffield is a hill but Market Hill, Cambridge is flat.
Then we have Hill Street Middlesbrough.
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Hill Street Belfast, a flat part of the city centre https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6019309 ... ?entry=ttuKeithW wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:45By Cambridge standards its positively Alpinethe cheesecake man wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:45 The Dingle, Stapenhill, Burton on Trent
This is A Road. (B Road and C Road are nearby)
Flat Street, Sheffield is a hill but Market Hill, Cambridge is flat.
Then we have Hill Street Middlesbrough.
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