"Charlie Gibbs"  wrote in message
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> Other favourites are San Francisco (house numbers start wherever the
> street does, so on two adjacent streets that start in different places
> the house numbers don't line up), and London (streets change names
> every few blocks and the numbers start over each time).

My parents live on a long A road between two towns. There are *almost*
continuous houses along the whole length. The road is variously known as
Wendover Road, Aylesbury; Wendover Road, Weston Turville; Wendover Road,
Stoke Mandeville; Aylesbury Road, Wendover. And each of those has its own
numbering. The Weston Turville and Stoke Mandeville numbering systems relate
to houses that are opposite to each other, with the boundary between two
villages running down the centre line of the road.


But in general, it is easier to find a house if it has a number rather than
a name, because if you find number 10 and further on number 20, then you can
*usually* be sure that number 16 will be close by - and *probably* on the
same (even numbers) side of the road.

Mind you, the road where we live has names for most of the houses, with a
short terrace of numbered houses somewhere amongst that.

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