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Unleashed is discussing silly place names, but what about road/street names?

Bewdley has a "No Road", Little Wenlock has a "Dog in the Lane", there's a "Cat and Kittens Lane" North of Wolverhampton...

Then you have wonderful historical oddities like "New Road" - well, it was new about 400 years ago, and "Old x Road", helpfully informing you of the existence of a bypass elsewhere in town...

Then if you thought unimaginative names like "Road No. 1" were restricted to industrial estates, then (again in Wolves) the Low Hill estate has First --> Fifth Avenues...

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Also something slightly different, but I can't be bothered to start a new thread: road numbers that 'remember' their previous identities, e.g. A3400 (was A34), A4600 (was A46), B4091 (was A491).
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You want numbered streets? I give you Blackhall Colliery, Co Durham.
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A4601 is also the former A460.

There's "Wrekin View"s in both Cannock and Brownhills. There's no way you can see The Wrekin from either location. More sensibly, though, there are two more of them in Telford.
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Steven wrote:There's "Wrekin View"s in both Cannock and Brownhills. There's no way you can see The Wrekin from either location. More sensibly, though, there are two more of them in Telford.
There's one in Sedgley, too. It's in the right orientation, but again I think there is too much in the way to allow a view of the Wrekin. On the other hand, from our house in Sedgley I used to have a fine view of the Clee hills, rather further south in Shropshire, but I don't remember a "Clee View".
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Who can forget about Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate, York's shortest street.
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And from Shortest Street, it's probably also worth a look at this thread...
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In a previous job I had a contact who lived at No. X, Motorway Link Road. It was somewhere in East London or Essex, IIRC. It conjured up images of endless concrete (no idea if this is true, btw -- never been to the area in question).

I'd rather live on Butt Hole Lane any day...
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Is there not a road called Letsby Avenue, named by a policeman, at Luton Airport? Or did I make that up?
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There's a road in Leeds called Short Street which is, indeed, a short street.

Middlesbrough's A1085 is called Trunk Road, which I also quite like.

But my favourite is a small alleyway in Bradford, next to the Tesco on the A650/A6037 Canal Road, where at one time there presumably used to be a builders' merchants. It's called "Street of Building Materials". Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
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Ha-Ha Road in Charlton, SE London! Ha Ha!

(actually a Ha-Ha is a sort of dyke or protective wall or something, IIRC)
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mittfh wrote: Then if you thought unimaginative names like "Road No. 1" were restricted to industrial estates, then (again in Wolves) the Low Hill estate has First --> Fifth Avenues...
Manor Park, E London has
First to Eighth Avenues!
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the spices in Meir Park (stoke)

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Manor Park, E London has
First to Eighth Avenues!
Blyth,Northumberland goes http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi? ... 000&icon=x
one further by having First to Eleventh Avenues then starting again at Twentieth to Twenty-Sixth.
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The Hush wrote:Is there not a road called Letsby Avenue, named by a policeman, at Luton Airport? Or did I make that up?
Multimap shows one at Sheffield City Airport here.

I seem to remember, 20 or so years ago, visiting relatives in Grantham, going to a shopping arcade and their being a Letsby Avenue in there.

And the States of Jersey have, in a sample HTML file for income tax, James Bond living at 1 Letsby Avenue, St Helier here
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The Hush wrote:Is there not a road called Letsby Avenue, named by a policeman, at Luton Airport? Or did I make that up?
Surely there must be one in Norwich! :wink: Anywhere near Carrow Road?!
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bucephalus wrote:the spices in Meir Park (stoke)

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There are more spices in London's Docklands!

The abbreviations are Sorrel, Oregano and Rosemary.
bob@romiley1 wrote: Blyth,Northumberland goes one further by having First to Eleventh Avenues then starting again at Twentieth to Twenty-Sixth.
Hat's off to Blyth for the number of "avenues" :)
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Post by DavidBrown »

Theres some sill names in Roundswell, near Barnstaple. My personal favourite, although the name isn't given on the map, is Cauliflower Close! :lol:
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What about Love Lane, Lad Lane or Long Lane? All within walking distance of each other!


Edit: Never noticed these front and rear streets before! Anybody got any other examples of this from Britain?

I used to work in this part of town years ago and often wondered about the origin of all those Viking street names!
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My mum would never buy a house in Pilchards Avenue in Fair Oak near Eastleigh, Hampshire!
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Post by Lewis »

On the subject of spices we have the Herb Estate in Shoreham.

Here

A popular theme I think.
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