"Alan" wrote in message
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In message , Peter Parry
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This is the oracle as far as addresses
are concerned but as others have said it isn't made up by RM - they
rely upon information from local authorities.


Consider also that many of the services you may want will be using
Satellite Navigation to find your property. There are only two main
suppliers in the world for the UK maps that all the Sat Nav software
suppliers use. Currently having a house number is a good idea whereas a
house name should be something that should be avoided if you want to use
services that rely on Sat Nav.

House names are for urban types who live in streets ( and my " street"
doesn't even have a name , it goes by the land registry title as " lane to
the west of a lane going from ABC to XYZ

My lane is a private road ( I own it), it goes nowhere except to my fields
and a river at the top. The main lane goes by the title of "lane that goes
from ABC to XYZ .

Sat Nav is useless in my area - even the ambulance gets lost. OS refs works
better. I am very isolated by most standards. My nearest neighbour is 20
mins walk away.

Hence if some idiot allows houses in the village two and a half miles away
to have the same name , I scuppered. No one will look for me when they are
so near and so visible are they?

By the way the issue is not so much with the post man who does seem to know
where I am. Its other deliveries - parceline, TNT etc. But it seems they
have more trade that the postie these days.
It was in fact the post man who told me that there was another house - or
two - with my name to cause confusion.