"Adrian"  wrote in message
news:AGkDj+B+CIWfFw3s@ku.gro.lloiff...
> In message , A. Dumas
>  writes
>>On 08-09-2020 23:10, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> 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),
>>
>>Huh? *Of course* numbering starts where the street starts. I had never
>>heard of the alternative, I suppose it comes with grid street plans, which
>>are awful & car centric & dehumanising.
>
> But where does a street start ?  Mine is T shaped.

When you say T-shaped, do you mean it's a cul-de-sac which joins another
road at the base of the T? I'd expect the numbering to start at the junction
between your road and another, and to continue either consecutively or else
alternately odd/even around the various legs of the T.

The problem comes when you have houses which back onto the nearby roads,
with the front doors (and therefore the letterboxes) facing each other
across a traffic-free central "village green". I discovered one like this
when I was trying to find someone's house. There wasn't even pedestrian
access from the road to each house, with a number on the roadside. Instead
you had to know that there was a single alleyway that gave access to the
front doors of all the houses. Ironically, the people I was visiting didn't
use their front door (which had the letter box in it) and had made a small
extra room (as a home office) in that area. So I got to the front door,
knocked on it, and was met with gesticulation to go to the back door.

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