#97

Road with two churches on it. But the road name is singular! Which one is the road named after??? Yeah it’s the older one

Wish they’d name roads after other interesting buildings, like Barbers and a Caff Lane or Two Pubs Road

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#98

That’s true of a lot of places.

#99

Black Lion Street in Brighton is named after the Black Lion Brewery that was founded in 1546. The Black Lion pub that’s there isn’t the original pub (which was further up the road) but is partly made from bits of the brewers after it was knocked down.

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#100

My road name is [Something] Lane where [Something] is the name of the original farmland, then village, neither of which really exists anymore. It’s quite a funny word, but unique AFAIK so I won’t be repeating it on here.

#101

There’s a Red Lion Street near here that’s named after a pub (or an old coaching inn originally, I suppose).

Seen stuff like Dog and Duck Lane, but that’s probably to do with Tory pastimes rather than a pub name.

#102

Just like the Ram Quarter in Wandsworth! (was the Ram Brewery, now it’s posh flats https://www.theramquarter.com/)

RIP Youngs

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#103

There’s Red Lion street in Manchester also named after a pub, the pub building is still there but has been boarded up for many decades.

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#104

Aw. I went on the Youngs brewery tour years ago, in the days when they still had a farm in it. I got headbutted by a goat.

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#105

I did a whole load of research about the oldest pub in Brighton. If the Black Lion was the original Black Lion, then it could have been a contender. The pub next door - The Cricketers - is probably the building that’s been a pub for the longest, but there’s a couple of other pubs which are in older buildings which haven’t been pubs for quite as long.

There’s also a couple of pubs which make bullshit claims about being the oldest pubs just in the hope that they’ll reel a few tourists in.

#106

There’s a pub in Winchester that claims to be the oldest in England or whatever. Says it’s been there since 1035^. I’m barred because on a slightly boozy night out I politely suggested* that some people in the queue had probably been waiting there ever since.

(^ or whatever year)
(*sweary and shitfaced)

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#108

All the things they killed to put houses up

#111

All of the streets on this scheme are named after trees - Maplewood etc…

Annoying my street is (redacted) and elsewhere in the same town there is a (redacted) crescent and courier companies, takeaways, taxis and the royal mail keep getting them mixed up even though they have totally different post codes.

In-laws scheme, all the streets are named after football managers.

#112

The one road in London that I wish was the name of my street is Lonesome Way.

You really have to wonder how they came up with that one…

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#113

I once lived on Nun’s Street in Derby

#114

The street in which I was born and lived in until the age of 11 must have once been a place for keeping horses owned by Sephardic Jews who had originally come to England from Spain at one time. I think it is probably the only place in the UK, if not the entire world, with that road name.

#115

Pretty sure my street was named after the majesty of rock

#116

Loosely translated means ‘High Bare Rock’ in Gaelic.

Tried to find the etymology of Mt. Florida but didn’t get that far.

#118

Used to live on Dorrington Road, with the smaller Dorrington Green sparring off it. Unsurprisingly, we used to get a lot of post and parcels (and the occasional takeaway) turn up.

Our last place was ‘Apartment 2, 7…’, so our stuff used to variously go to numbers 2, 7 and 27 (and v.v.).

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#119

I live about 100 yards from the River Welland, although I’d have to hop the fence of a school if I wanted to take the most direct route to get there.

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#120

Reckon in the future there’ll be a housing estate somewhere with all streets named after Pokémon, in like 200 years time when it qualifies as classic literature

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