Why do so many Ranelagh Roads in London have a Napier Road nearby, but the
same pattern is not common in the rest of the country?

On 20 Mar, 02:58, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Why do so many Ranelagh Roads in London have a Napier Road nearby, but the
same pattern is not common in the rest of the country?

From the TFL planner it appears that 6 Rangelagh Roads have a nearby
(same postcode) Napier Road, but 4 don't, and 8 Napier roads are on
their own. So is there that much of a connection?

MaxB

MaxB wrote:
On 20 Mar, 02:58, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Why do so many Ranelagh Roads in London have a Napier Road nearby,
but the same pattern is not common in the rest of the country?

From the TFL planner it appears that 6 Rangelagh Roads have a nearby
(same postcode) Napier Road, but 4 don't, and 8 Napier roads are on
their own. So is there that much of a connection?

They aren't just in the same postcode, they are parallel and adjacent, or
intersecting. Look!

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

John Rowland wrote:
MaxB wrote:
On 20 Mar, 02:58, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Why do so many Ranelagh Roads in London have a Napier Road nearby,
but the same pattern is not common in the rest of the country?

From the TFL planner it appears that 6 Rangelagh Roads have a nearby
(same postcode) Napier Road, but 4 don't, and 8 Napier roads are on
their own. So is there that much of a connection?

They aren't just in the same postcode, they are parallel and
adjacent, or intersecting. Look!

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

I forgot to mention Ranelagh Ave and Napier Ave...

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

On Mar 21, 1:32 am, "John Rowland"
wrote:
MaxB wrote:
On 20 Mar, 02:58, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Why do so many Ranelagh Roads in London have a Napier Road nearby,
but the same pattern is not common in the rest of the country?


Napier has to be Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853),
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/people/napier.htm , but the Ranelagh
could be a few people, I would guess one of these,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Ranelagh
I can't see any connection - it's a real puzzle.

On 21 Mar, 07:08, Offramp wrote:
On Mar 21, 1:32 am, "John Rowland"

wrote:
MaxB wrote:
On 20 Mar, 02:58, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Why do so many Ranelagh Roads in London have a Napier Road nearby,
but the same pattern is not common in the rest of the country?

Napier has to be Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853),http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/people/napier.htm, but the Ranelagh
could be a few people, I would guess one of these,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Ranelagh
I can't see any connection - it's a real puzzle.

Ranalegh was a stream once called the Kilburn, also part of the
Westbourne. It entered the Thames besides Ranelagh Gardens, named
after Richard Earl of Ranelagh, a treasurer of Chelsea Hospital.

The Napier name seems to come from noble friends of the Earl of
Holland (hence Holland Park etc). Not necessarily Sir Charles.
Wikipedia lists a whole load of them!

I don't know why they should run in pairs however - unimaginative town
planners? Roads were/are often named after local celebs or after some
recent historical event e.g. Coronation, Jubilee etc.

MaxB