UK Tackle Oddities! – The Unusually Named Weblog

2023-10-09 05:46:49

A couple of of my earlier weblog posts have been about quirks within the UK postal handle system. On account of these posts being reasonably widespread, folks have contacted me to inform me about different such quirks. This pleases me vastly – I like quirks.

Mmmmm quirks.

Additionally, since discovering the HM Land Registry property gross sales information, I’ve found another vaguely attention-grabbing stuff, so I believed that I’d collate all this info into one massive weblog submit of address-based quirky goodness.

I promise this would be the final address-related factor for some time. If I uncover extra quirks, I’ll simply edit them into this submit.

PS. Should you’ve not learn my earlier posts, The HM Land Registry property gross sales information is a listing of most residential property gross sales in England and Wales since 1995. It’s not a complete record of each home within the UK, so the findings beneath are usually not complete.

Home Numbers

Highest Home Quantity

Within the HM Land Registry property gross sales information, the best home quantity is 9156, which belongs to a home close to Beccles in Suffolk. Nonetheless there aren’t any different homes on the identical highway, nor actually anyplace close by, that are numbered above 2000. I assume that, in the identical manner that you would be able to give your home a reputation, it’s essential to additionally have the ability to give it a quantity as a reputation. There can’t be another motive why a home on a road with fewer than 10 different homes can be quantity 9156. Or why a home in Owls Inexperienced, a village of about 20 homes close to Ipswich, can be numbered 2820 (cute).

If we solely embrace streets the place the home numbers increment kind of constantly upwards, in line with the HM Land Registry there are 5 streets in England and Wales with respectable home numbers above 2000 (with the variety of the best home in brackets):

Bristol Street South, B45 9JL (2022)
Hessle Street, HU13 9NN (2063)
Warwick Street, B93 0EF (2111)
Coventry Street, B26 3PX (2599)
Stratford Street, B94 5NH (2679)

4 of those streets have Birmingham postcodes.

Anyway, it signifies that the highest numbered home is: 2679 Stratford Street, B94 5NH.

Lowest Home Quantity

Sure, you heard me.

You would possibly assume that the bottom home quantity can be 1, however there are fairly a number of homes numbered zero. Listed below are some (however most likely not all) of them:

There are even some homes which go into destructive numbers:

There’s an excellent probability, nonetheless, that the bottom home quantity is that this:

Non-integer Home Numbers

The standard factor to do in case you’re placing a brand new home in between two current homes with consecutive numbers, is so as to add a letter: 10a, 17b, and so on. However there are a shocking variety of homes with fractions of their home numbers.

Listed below are a number of the “midway” homes:

99 & A Half, Western Street, Brighton, BN1 2AA
10 And A Half, Preston Park Avenue, Brighton, BN1 6HJ
38 & A Half, Copperkins Lane, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 5QP
Ten & Half, Watcombe Circus, Nottingham, NG5 2DU
One & A Half, Hamilton Drive, Nottingham, NG7 1DF
1 & A Half, Praeds Lane, Marazion, Penwith, Cornwall, TR17 0AT
19 & A Half, Previous Elvet, Durham, County Durham, DH1 3HL
11 & A Half, Entrance Avenue, Quebec, Durham, DH7 9DF
44 & A Half D, Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QS
24 & A Half, Gilesgate, Durham, DH1 1QW
91 & A Half, Hawthorn Home, Rothbury Street, Durham, DH1 5QE
3 & Half, St Martins Lane, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1UD
44 & A Half, The Mint, Rye, Rother, East Sussex, TN31 7EN
5 & A Half, Albion Hill, Loughton, Epping Forest, Essex, IG10 4RA
Three & Half, Weeley Street, Nice Bentley, Colchester, Tendring, Essex, CO7 8ND
13 & A Half, Spaniards Finish, Barnet, Larger London, NW3 7JG
60 & A Half, Scotts Lane, Bromley, Larger London, BR2 0LX
2 & A Half, Edward Street, Biggin Hill, Westerham, Bromley, Larger London, TN16 3HL
Two & A Half, Ospringe Street, Camden, Larger London, NW5 2JE
One And A Half, Woodchurch Street, Camden, Larger London, NW6 3PL
12 & A Half, St Vincent Avenue, Metropolis Of Westminster, Larger London, W1U 4DE
One & A Half, Fairdene Street, Coulsdon, Croydon, Larger London, CR5 1RD
68 & A Half, Sandringham Street, Hackney, Larger London, E8 2LL
1 1/2, Disbrowe Street, Hammersmith And Fulham, Larger London, W6 8QG
34 & A Half, Clarence Street, Wooden Inexperienced, Haringey, Larger London, N22 8PL
15 & A Half, Jacksons Lane, Haringey, Larger London, N6 5SR
Fifty Two & A Half, Arundel Drive, Harrow, Larger London, HA2 8PR
21 & A Half, Carnforth Gardens, Hornchurch, Havering, Larger London, RM12 5DJ
18 & A Half, Sekforde Avenue, Islington, Larger London, EC1R 0HL
18 & A Half, Cloudesley Sq., Islington, Larger London, N1 0HN
24 And A Half, Richmond Crescent, Islington, Larger London, N1 0LZ
6 & A Half, Yeate Avenue, Islington, Larger London, N1 3EW
64 & A Half, Englefield Street, Islington, Larger London, N1 3LG
65 And A Half, Northchurch Street, Islington, Larger London, N1 3NU
73 And A Half, Northchurch Street, Islington, Larger London, N1 3NU
27 And A Half, Gerrard Street, Islington, Larger London, N1 8AY
30 & A Half, Cheverton Street, Islington, Larger London, N19 3AY
The Pink Home 32 & A Half, Bickerton Street, Islington, Larger London, N19 5JS
1 & A Half, Manor Mount, Lewisham, Larger London, SE23 3PY
25 & A Half, Wickham Street, Lewisham, Larger London, SE4 1PL
53 & A Half, Tressillian Street, Lewisham, Larger London, SE4 1YA
40 & A Half, Valmar Street, Southwark, Larger London, SE5 9NG
136 & A Half, Slender Avenue, Tower Hamlets, Larger London, E14 8BP
45 & A Half, Hazlewell Street, Wandsworth, Larger London, SW15 6LS
1 & A Half, Linden Avenue, Previous Basing, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 7HG
8 And A Half, Financial institution Avenue, Bishops Waltham, Southampton, Hampshire, SO32 1AN
30 & A Half, Fordington Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5AW
27 & A Half, St Swithun Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9HU
Beechbrook 16 & A Half, Colebrook Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9LH
27 & A Half, Courtroom Chambers, Friar Lane, Leicester, LE1 5RB
48 & A Half, Wolverton Street, Leicester, LE3 2AH
1 & A Half, Oakley Street, Leicester, LE5 3NJ
Forty Seven & A Half, Cambridge Street, Cosby, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 1SJ
31 & A Half, Hungate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1ET
33 & A Half, Hungate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1ET
60 & A Half, Bailgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AR
19 And A Half, St Josephs Means, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG3 6HN
Two & A Half, Faringdon Street, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5BH
81 & A Half, Marmion Street, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 2AX
2 & A Half, Portland Avenue, Southampton, SO14 7EB
Six & A Half, Fen Avenue, Hopton, Diss, Suffolk, IP22 2RF
Six & A Half, Westbury Avenue, Sunderland, Tyne And Put on, SR4 6EF
75 & A Half, Roker Avenue, Tyne And Put on, SR6 0HP
12 & A Half, Previous Place, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 3AU
6.5, St Peter’s Grove, York, YO30 6AQ

Different Fractions

The two buildings marked with pink arrows are retailers, and in line with their web sites (here and here), they’re each 3 Windsor Avenue, however it appears that evidently formally one is 3½ and the opposite is 3¼.

Likewise, the home marked with the purple arrow has the title Windsor Cottage on its title plate, however once more it appears that evidently formally it’s 1¼.

There’s additionally 1¼ Woodchurch Road, Camden, London.

And on the Excessive Avenue, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, there are 5 consecutive homes that are numbered: 75, 75a, 75b, 75½, 75¾

Bizarre Numbering Schemes

Tony identified that Nesta have a map on their contact page exhibiting that they’re quantity 58 in a run of numbers, on London’s Victoria Embankment, which matches: 40, 58, 50, 56, 60.

Bryn notes that the Excessive Avenue in Kingswinford is numbered by the distance from one end of the road in metres. They’ve nonetheless stored odd and even numbers on reverse sides of the highway.

The broadly acknowledged ‘reality’ that each one you have to present is a home quantity and postcode in your submit to achieve the best handle just isn’t at all times true. There are lots of cases of various buildings having the identical quantity and postcode. For instance…

1-4 Jubilee Cottages, Warwick Street, B94 6AZ and 1-4 Cedar Cottages, Warwick Street, B94 6AZ
1-3 Weymouth Avenue, BA1 6AG and 1-3 Riverside Mews, Weymouth Avenue, BA1 6AG, and 1-3 Weymouth Courtroom, Weymouth Avenue, BA1 6AG
1 The Chase, HA5 5QP and 1 Rose Cottages, The Chase, HA5 5QP and 1 Park Cottages, The Chase, HA5 5QP and 1 Leamington Cottages, The Chase, HA5 5QP

The postcode CV12 8UE appears to cowl Gatehouse Lane, Emes Stroll, Bucklers Yard, Homers Yard, Lye Nook, Sleets Yard, and Previous Penns Yard – which all share home numbers in varied combos. This should be tremendous complicated – I can’t work out the place most of those are on a map!

All of them seem within the Royal Mail’s address finder.

The postcode HD7 5UZ in Huddersfield additionally covers about seven completely different roads.

Avenue Names

Twin Named Streets

David identified that in Edinburgh there are streets resembling Haddington Place/Elm Row, which have completely different names in reverse instructions.

These streets have a tiny barrier down the center, making them twin carriageways, however Shay went one higher with two streets in Gateshead the place either side of a single-carriageway highway has a distinct title. Cambridge Terrace / Oxford Terrace and Ashgrove Terrace / Richmond Terrace. The second of those has separate units of numbers on either side of the road, so 1 Richmond Terrace faces 1 Ashgrove Terrace, on the identical highway. A few of the mapping websites battle with this, simply exhibiting one of many names.

Scotty factors out an analogous factor with Queen Street / Grosvenor Terrace in Carlin How, North Yorkshire – besides on this case either side of the road have matching units of solely even numbers. Google Maps has transferred the title Grosvenor Terrace to the back-alley operating behind the homes.

The same factor additionally exists with St Marks Road / Vine Place in Ealing, West London. St Marks Street appears to have been given dominance on the highway signal, however Google Maps calls them Vine Place. Once more, either side of the highway has its personal set of numbers.

There’s additionally Croft Parade / Croft Avenue in Cheltenham, every with its personal set of numbers. About midway down the road either side change into Croft Gardens.

Anthony notes that the homes on the west aspect of Lainey’s Shut, Marlborough SN8 1BS, even have the handle Chiminage Shut, which is a highway operating to the north. On one map I discovered, and in reality in real life as well, it appears to be like as if Chiminage Shut extends spherical and turns into the pavement of Lainey’s Shut!

Ralf factors out an odd phenomenon in Stevenage the place total estates, together with the primary highway and all of the spur roads, share the identical title. So there’s Wisden Road, Jessop Road, Archer Road, Ripon Road, and others.

Unimaginative Names

There are over 600 streets known as The Avenue, and over 400 known as New Avenue. There are nearly 1000 roads known as New Street, however oddly not a single highway simply known as The Street.

In Cumbria there’s a highway merely known as Street.

In Somerset there’s a highway known as Street Road! It goes to a city known as Street.

There are nearly 2500 streets known as Excessive Avenue, and lots of extra that are <title of city> Excessive Avenue, however there are solely 59 streets named Low Avenue!

A number of industrial estates don’t hassle naming streets in any respect and simply give them numbers as an alternative. Typically this occurs with housing estates as effectively, like this one in Grimsby, and this one in Hull.

Apparently, the shortest handle in Royal Mail’s handle database is:

Elba, Duns, TD11 3RY

The longest handle of their database is on the Isle Of Man, so not really within the UK. It’s a authorities division the place two thirds of the handle is simply the title of the division and the constructing it’s in.

Superstar Names

There are no less than three celebrities who’ve been named after UK streets:

Single Phrase Roadnames

And at last, impressed by Paul’s comment, I took a listing of single-word streetnames, and cross-referenced it with the SOWPODS Scrabble dictionary to discover a record of road names that are actual phrases. Listed below are only a few of probably the most random ones…

Fairyland, Chemistry, Tweed, Football, Solid, Dolphins, Goldilocks, Playground, Hobgoblin, Countryside, Dart, Badgers, Panorama, Antlers, Chapter, Dungeon, Loan, Bohemia, Flush, Groats, Hide, Jesters, Valentines, Drawback, Sixpence, Viking, Side, Paris, Equilibrium, Liberty, Tranquility, Butts, Butts, Butts, Bottoms, Bottoms, Sprays, Swallows, Butts.