On 21/11/2020 15:35, gareth evans wrote:
On 21/11/2020 12:39, Max Demian wrote:

People who devise names for residential streets lack imagination. They
think of a name and append Road, Street, Avenue, Mews, Crescent, Close
&c. to it, regardless of the nature of the road.

Here in Chippenham (The Wiltshire one and not t'other) (England)
there are a large number of Meads and Closes which are named from
the historical fields and enclosures in which they are built.


To the north of Doncaster there is a long road called Jossey Lane, after
a recluse known as 'Old Jossie', who roamed it in the late nineteeth
century. Until approx 1900 it was called Bruisingholme Lane.
The continuation of Jossey Lane was called Middlegate until the 1940s,
when it was renamed Jossey Lane. The name Middlegate was then used for a
road on the new estate nearby, where I lived as a child.

Bill