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Thread #35268   Message #481088
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
11-Jun-01 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
I had to type out Headstone Lane, Harrow 6 times this afternoon.... And my dad used to live in a dead end road called Cemetary Road. Most people who went down it were lying down and didn't come back!!

The stupidest names must be those that do it twice - not New York, NY, but things like Tor Hill (Tor meaning hill) or the River Thames - Thames is a corruption of two words, Thame & Isis, one ancient Briton, one Roman, both mean river. So the River Thames is the River River River. Somewhere in Cornwall is Hill Hill Hill Hill. Avenue Road always gets me, but I've also seen Street Road (going to the village of Street, Somerset).

And it's true about the police station. It's the only building down it, so they had a bit of a sense of humour with it.

LTS