Basil Jet wrote:

On 2010\09\24 01:05, Mizter T wrote:
Although of course there is a Liverpool Road running up from Angel which
also does not go to Liverpool, so this is not an iron rule.

It does go towards Liverpool. I believe that the original Great North
Road ran down Friern Barnet Lane, Colney Hatch Lane, Crouch End Broadway
and Hornsey Road... Liverpool Road seems to be a continuation of this
line, so will have been the road from London to Liverpool at one point.


Typical Londoner! No geographical knowledge outside the M25. ;-)

The Great North Road went to Peterborough, York and Newcastle, not to
Liverpool. The "road to Liverpool" was what is now the A41.

For much of its length, it followed the Roman road Akeman Street, and
went via Baker Street, through Swiss Cottage, Brent Cross, Hendon,
Mill Hill, Watford, Aylesbury, Bicester, Banbury, Warwick, Solihull,
Wolverhampton, and Whitchurch (Shropshire). From the 1930s onwards it
went via Chester and Birkenhead then through the Mersey Tunnel to
Liverpool. Prior to the 1930s it went from Whitchurch via Warrington
to Liverpool.

More recently, the A5 (Watling Street) was the favoured route for car
travel until it met the A41 north of Wolverhampton, then as above.
Finally, the M1, M6 and Midland Links motorways were built.