OT - grasp of simple concepts like road names

[Steve Walker]

Or gate. Gate is an old word meaning street, so Churchgate, Watergate, etc. okay, but Hale Gate Road, etc. just seem odd.

SteveW

[bert]

Same with the Big Market and Quayside in Newcastle.

[bert]

Near Ruabon

[DJC]

Oi! I lived there for 31 years

[Steve Walker]

Indeed.

I'll be honest and state that I only know it because of the road name here and having travelled to Trevor by narrowboat in my youth.

[Cursitor Doom]

Bound to. Because *all* roads lead to Rome.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, it isn't.

It means gate. The way into a walled or fenced enclosure.

German developed thast to 'gasse', or street, but that was later.

so Churchgate, Watergate,

Only because your original premise is wrong.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well, exactly :-)

[S Viemeister]

Depends on how old you mean. In Spenser's Faerie Queen (written in the

1500s), he uses gate to mean lane or pathway, and gate is frequently used in Scotland for the names of streets, for example, the Canongate in Edinburgh.

[Bob Martin]

Useless fact : Glasgow has more parkland / green space than any other city in Europe.

[Huge]

IMNSHO, your NSHO is a load of old hooey. :o)

On that we can agree.

[Huge]

[Andy Burns]

Might as well rename it to "Dustbin Alley"

[Huge]

Indeed. It certainly didn't look like that when I lived in Bristol.

[NY]

When I was at university in Bristol, I walked up that road on my way to Brandon Hill to have my sausage rolls and pork pies from the bakery nearby (Devon Savouries - no idea what the shop has become now) and I never noticed that sign.

In north Leeds, near where I was born, there is a road called Street Lane

On the railways, there were Box Signal Box (near Box Tunnel on the GWR) and Junction Road Junction (on the Gospel Oak - Barking line in north London)

[spuorgelgoog]

It's no green space in Larkhall. It's "open space".

Neds in Larkhall burn the grass if it's too green.

Owain

[soup]

Maybe by total area I don't know.

By percentage of area,against area covered by the city, it is Edinburgh.

Edinburgh 49% Glasgow 32% Figures from :-

[paul.mccann]

In Northern Ireland that was called a Court. (An open doorway in a row of terraced houses on a street leading to a collection of tenements with one tap and one privy)

[paul.mccann]

Theres a town in Co. Cork, Ireland called Millstreet. THere is also a vill age in Co Westmeathe called Street.

[paul.mccann]

Some of the streets in Dublin have the numbers starting on the left at one end, running to the end of the street to cross over and come down the other side. Very confusing sepecially whan half the pillocks have no numbers on their doors