Smallest place signed from a motorway?
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Yes, I would concur with this. Scotch Corner is a junction, in the village of Middleton Tyas. The village is not signed from a motorway, but the junction is. I'd put it in the same category as airports and bridges in that sense.
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Edit, if we were including streets/junctions and the like as 'places', then Carliol Square is signed from the A167(M). I'm not aware that it currently has any residential properties on it. Plummer House, a student halls with 251 rooms according to its website so a similar population I guess, borders it but its address is Market Street.
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It won't win any prizes on this thread, but it must be one of the smaller places in southern England to have merited a motorway sign. The parish population was 455 at the 2021 census according to Wikipedia. No doubt Whipsnade was signed partly as a proxy for the zoo, and also to keep northbound Dunstable traffic on the motorway until J11.
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The Birches is also now signed from the M1 (eastbound only) - population 319.wallmeerkat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 15:26 Northern Ireland will be like shooting fish in a barrel
Loughgall for example - population (2011 census via wikipedia) - 282, signed from the M1 (NI)
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4810552 ... ?entry=ttu
Sprucefield is a retail park area around the junction for the M1/A1 (NI), probably differentiates where they want to move Dublin traffic onto the next junction nearby (when it is probably quicker to go via Sprucefield)
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4948914 ... ?entry=ttu
Carn and Seagoe (small areas around Portadown) from M12 (NI)
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4516187 ... ?entry=ttu
Greencastle on the M2 (NI) is a fairly large junction before the motorway heads uphill, but it's an old village in North Belfast that was decimated by said junction
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6453868 ... ?entry=ttu
Cushendall on M2 (NI) Ballymena bypass population (2011 census via wikipedia) - 1280
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.8699515 ... ?entry=ttu
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Plus, in these days when many people are forced to live in tents rather than have a mortgage, there could be a few of those too.Steven wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 17:12There are some hotels at Scotch Corner and a caravan park, so it will have a non-zero population at any given time, up to a maximum of not very much when the hotels and caravan park are full.
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No no, living in a tent is a lifestyle choice, according to Cruella.Owain wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 00:26Plus, in these days when many people are forced to live in tents rather than have a mortgage, there could be a few of those too.
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