... Jon <jonathan.gurney@wlc.ac.uk> remarked: <jo...@journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> asked - who names new roads? All too often it is the marketing staff of building firms, leading to road names which are intened primarily to make the houses there ...s the case. The builders often give developments such fancy names, which are then ignored by the council with much more ...

...56, "John Rowland" <jo...@journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> asked - who names new roads? All too often it is the...marketing staff of building firms, leading to road names which are intened primarily to make... of 'walks', 'crescents' and 'avenues', and the silly tendency to towrads road names with no suffix at all,... are rural hamlets too small to have street names as such. Jon

...drives me to distraction with his perversity. Do many roads get named (without fanfare) after serving or former ... unspellable is one of the critieria for a new road name. Who knows? It's academic at present anyway. No road has been named after a current councillor. Incidentally, tonight I discovered that one of the road signs in Helvetia St SE6 says "Helvtia St". ...

... "John Rowland" <jo...@journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote: Surely being unspellable is one of the critieria for a new road name. Or equally unpronouncable. In Highworth (near Swindon), there's a "Wrde Hill". Yes, that is the full name, no letters missing. In Swindon we have a Deneb Drive and a Deben Crescent not that ...

... one in Cambridge sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity. Do many roads get named (without fanfare) after serving or former local councillors? A member of my family is ...being unspellable is one of the critieria for a new road name. Incidentally, tonight I discovered that one of the road signs in Helvetia St SE6 says "Helvtia St". ...

... Brainy? Plus "keys" college, of course. No. Like (the Bridge over the River) Kwai. Manea is the same ending as Whittlesey, formerly Whittlesea, and still spelt thus in the station name. I've heard claims that stiff-key is becoming accepted in Norfolk. They'll be calling it Happisburgh next! Then there is Marylebone.... Seems straightforward to me. -- Colin Rosenstiel

... we have induction for outsiders round here. They have to learn to pronounce Quy and Manea too. It's Cambridge, there must be a website. Aha: http://www.colc.co.uk/cambridge/gwydir/name.htm "Gwydir Castle is the ancestral home of the powerful Wynn family, descended from the kings of Gwynedd and one of the most significant families of North Wales during the Tudor and Stuart ...

... locally called Whitefrargate, with a missing middle "i", but there is no way of knowing that. It's Cambridge, there must be a website. Aha: http://www.colc.co.uk/cambridge/gwydir/name.htm "Gwydir Castle is the ancestral home of the powerful Wynn family, descended from the kings of Gwynedd and one of the most significant families of North Wales during the Tudor and Stuart periods. ...

..." maybe, or is it "doe-cur-uh" You amaze me. I've know that name since I were a lad in London Yes, I've seen the name for a long time, but never consciously heard anyone say it. But then it might be one of those names like Shi-vaughn (aka Sigh-Oban) that's so different you don't even marry them up. On ...

...Road, Edinburgh Road, Kinross Road, Inverness Close, Stirling Close. The road layout makes me think that Scotland Road is quite old, but ..., 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 ...