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August 26th 08, 10:59 AM
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Who names new roads?
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (Roland Perry) wrote: In message , at 23:48:17 on Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Alasdair remarked: I have come across several cases where roads have been named by developers. There is a street in Grimsby called Thorgam Court named after the builders Thornber and Gammon. There's a Docwra's Close next to Shepreth Station. Pronounce that! No harder than "Gwydir". Well, exactly. There are two streets in Ballachulish called Elizabeth Terrace and Angus Terrace called after the developer's parents. If you are allowing that kind of "naming after", then many of the Victorian roads in West Bridgford are apparently named after the developer's relatives... Albert, Florence, Mabel, Violet, Edward, George, Henry, Millicent etc. Ah! The Street family! Like Albert, George and Herbert in Chesterton, for example. All cousins of Miss Elizabeth Way, i believe. Speaking of Chesterton, why is there a cluster of caledonian streets there? There's Scotland Road, Edinburgh Road, Kinross Road, Inverness Close, Stirling Close. The road layout makes me think that Scotland Road is quite old, but that the other ones, which are branches off it, are newer; the houses on them are certainly all brand spanking new. My guess would be that Scotland Road was built many years ago, and named that for some reason, and then the new estate was built recently, and the names chosen as a riff on the parent road. tom -- MADSKILLZ! |
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