It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..


--
Adam

On Thursday, 30 April 2020 21:14:49 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.
My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"
No house number no house name..

Almost opposite Dirty Lane?

Owain

On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..


You know how I rant and rave about this sort of thing! I fell out with
half the village because I moaned on the Facebook group about pizza men
getting me out of bed to ask directions.

Bill

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:14:47 +0100, ARW wrote:

It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..

Friends who used to live in Far Bank Lane carried maps for the first 3 years
that they were there, mainly for the surrounding lanes.
I spent a lot of time there cycling and driving and still needed a map at
times.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Jethro_uk wrote:

https://what3words.com/narrow.plantings.unicorns

That's all well and good, until someone remembers it wrong and ends up
in Borneo

https://what3words.com/narrow.unicorn.planting

On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

Bill

On 01/05/2020 14:40:56, williamwright wrote:
On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a
left hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

I sometimes give out an address with what3words.

On 01/05/2020 06:03, williamwright wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..


You know how I rant and rave about this sort of thing! I fell out with
half the village because I moaned on the Facebook group about pizza men
getting me out of bed to ask directions.

Bill

Those new gates will be useful then :-)

"williamwright" wrote in message
...
On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

I've had a number of people who live in rural areas who give me similarly
vague "addresses" when I'm going to fix their computer. I always try to get
a proper postal address (eg house number/name and postcode), and look the
house up on Google Streetview beforehand so I know what I'm looking out for.

I had one guy who seemed reluctant to give me the actual house name, and
when he gave it me, he said "It's called Willow Cottage, but that won't help
you because there isn't a sign on the gate". I thought "how the F do you
expect the emergency services to find you if you need an ambulance in a
hurry?".

My ploy of using Google does sometimes fall foul of Google's blurring of car
number plates, because that often blurs signs with house number/name.
Numbers are easy because if you find neighbours whose signs are not blurred,
you can count houses from them, and interpolate.

The best way of finding a house is if there's a village map. I found a site
that has PDF maps for a lot of villages in parts of North and East
Yorkshire. http://colinday.co.uk/maps/NorthYorks.shtml

On Fri, 1 May 2020 14:40:56 +0100, williamwright
wrote:



Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.


When I was an agency van driver nearly 20 years ago, and sometimes
covering for drivers on leave, it became apparent to me that there
were a lot of van drivers who couldn't read maps. It was also the case
that most of the companies I drove for didn't give their drivers road
atlases, either.

In article ,
ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..

My brother's house has no number or street name. Basically, the new part
of the town grew up around it. But has its own post code.

He usually says to a visitor just look out for the carbuncle. As it's an
old house on a hill surrounded by modern ones.

--
*The average person falls asleep in seven minutes *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 01/05/2020 15:02, NY wrote:
"williamwright" wrote in message
...
On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a
left hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a
proper address.

I've had a number of people who live in rural areas who give me
similarly vague "addresses" when I'm going to fix their computer. I
always try to get a proper postal address (eg house number/name and
postcode), and look the house up on Google Streetview beforehand so I
know what I'm looking out for.

I had one guy who seemed reluctant to give me the actual house name, and
when he gave it me, he said "It's called Willow Cottage, but that won't
help you because there isn't a sign on the gate". I thought "how the F
do you expect the emergency services to find you if you need an
ambulance in a hurry?".


A lot of people are too attached to the property name because it 'adds
value to the property' and refuse to use the number that the Post Office
Address File has allocated to the property.

This is why they have so much trouble buying stuff online.

My ploy of using Google does sometimes fall foul of Google's blurring of
car number plates, because that often blurs signs with house
number/name. Numbers are easy because if you find neighbours whose signs
are not blurred, you can count houses from them, and interpolate.

The best way of finding a house is if there's a village map. I found a
site that has PDF maps for a lot of villages in parts of North and East
Yorkshire. http://colinday.co.uk/maps/NorthYorks.shtml

On 01/05/2020 15:11, Peter Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2020 14:40:56 +0100, williamwright
wrote:



Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.


When I was an agency van driver nearly 20 years ago, and sometimes
covering for drivers on leave, it became apparent to me that there
were a lot of van drivers who couldn't read maps. It was also the case
that most of the companies I drove for didn't give their drivers road
atlases, either.



But everyone knows that real men never read maps, and women
simply can't.

In article ,
Andrew wrote:
On 01/05/2020 15:02, NY wrote:
"williamwright" wrote in message
...
On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a
left hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a
proper address.

I've had a number of people who live in rural areas who give me
similarly vague "addresses" when I'm going to fix their computer. I
always try to get a proper postal address (eg house number/name and
postcode), and look the house up on Google Streetview beforehand so I
know what I'm looking out for.

I had one guy who seemed reluctant to give me the actual house name,
and when he gave it me, he said "It's called Willow Cottage, but that
won't help you because there isn't a sign on the gate". I thought "how
the F do you expect the emergency services to find you if you need an
ambulance in a hurry?".


A lot of people are too attached to the property name because it 'adds
value to the property' and refuse to use the number that the Post Office
Address File has allocated to the property.

House numbers are allocated by the District Council (or Equivalent). The
Post Office simply makes use of them. Here, it is an offence not to display
your house number. -- We don't have one, ;-)

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

"Andrew" wrote in message
...
A lot of people are too attached to the property name because it 'adds
value to the property' and refuse to use the number that the Post Office
Address File has allocated to the property.

This is why they have so much trouble buying stuff online.

Do the Royal Mail allocate a number to every house? Our house has a name and
no number, as have a lot on our street. They are listed by the names in the
list of matching addresses that retailing websites display when you enter a
postcode.

On 01/05/2020 17:23, charles wrote:
In article ,
Andrew wrote:
On 01/05/2020 15:02, NY wrote:
"williamwright" wrote in message
...
On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a
left hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a
proper address.

I've had a number of people who live in rural areas who give me
similarly vague "addresses" when I'm going to fix their computer. I
always try to get a proper postal address (eg house number/name and
postcode), and look the house up on Google Streetview beforehand so I
know what I'm looking out for.

I had one guy who seemed reluctant to give me the actual house name,
and when he gave it me, he said "It's called Willow Cottage, but that
won't help you because there isn't a sign on the gate". I thought "how
the F do you expect the emergency services to find you if you need an
ambulance in a hurry?".


A lot of people are too attached to the property name because it 'adds
value to the property' and refuse to use the number that the Post Office
Address File has allocated to the property.

House numbers are allocated by the District Council (or Equivalent). The
Post Office simply makes use of them. Here, it is an offence not to display
your house number. -- We don't have one, ;-)


That maybe the case but it is the Post Office Address File that matters.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..

My brother's house has no number or street name. Basically, the new part
of the town grew up around it. But has its own post code.

How are letters addressed to him? Does he give his contact address in the
form "Fred Bloggs, Town, Postcode", and let the local postmen decode the
postcode into the relevant postman's round? What happens if you go onto the
Royal Mail website and do a reverse lookup from his postcode to the matching
address(es)? Are there no matching addresses in his case?

On 01/05/2020 17:23, charles wrote:
In article ,
Andrew wrote:

ambulance in a hurry?".


A lot of people are too attached to the property name because it 'adds
value to the property' and refuse to use the number that the Post Office
Address File has allocated to the property.

House numbers are allocated by the District Council (or Equivalent). The
Post Office simply makes use of them. Here, it is an offence not to display
your house number. -- We don't have one, ;-)



Charles.L Hope
Woodside Ockham Road North
West Horsley Leatherhead KT24 6PF


01483 283 856

--

On 01/05/2020 12:46:02, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Wouldn't that be on a 'right' hand bend?

I don't see any caravan in Google maps.

This is a left hand bend when coming from t'north.
https://what3words.com/magically.wipe.facing

"Jethro_uk" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 01 May 2020 13:50:49 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Jethro_uk wrote:

https://what3words.com/narrow.plantings.unicorns

That's all well and good, until someone remembers it wrong and ends up
in Borneo

Easier to remember 3 words than a series of numbers for lat/long I reckon.

Yes, but it makes no sense to remember either,
the only thing that makes any sense is to text it.

https://what3words.com/narrow.unicorn.planting

"williamwright" wrote in message
...
On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

No need anymore now that almost everyone
has a decent mobile phone that can give any
tradesman a much better location by text message.

Fredxx wrote:
On 01/05/2020 12:46:02, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Wouldn't that be on a 'right' hand bend?

I don't see any caravan in Google maps.


Dropped pin
Near Trundle Ln, Fishlake, Doncaster DN7 5LL
https://goo.gl/maps/SzzHgVvwKdbqNr558

Tim

--
Please don't feed the trolls

On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Actually the grid reference you have given is to the correct house. But
the house with the caravan in it's drive on Google maps is in next doors
driveway.

--
Adam

"NY" wrote in message
...
"williamwright" wrote in message
...
On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

I've had a number of people who live in rural areas who give me similarly
vague "addresses" when I'm going to fix their computer. I always try to
get a proper postal address (eg house number/name and postcode), and look
the house up on Google Streetview beforehand so I know what I'm looking
out for.

I had one guy who seemed reluctant to give me the actual house name, and
when he gave it me, he said "It's called Willow Cottage, but that won't
help you because there isn't a sign on the gate". I thought "how the F do
you expect the emergency services to find you if you need an ambulance in
a hurry?".

My ploy of using Google does sometimes fall foul of Google's blurring of
car number plates, because that often blurs signs with house number/name.
Numbers are easy because if you find neighbours whose signs are not
blurred, you can count houses from them, and interpolate.

The best way of finding a house is if there's a village map. I found a
site that has PDF maps for a lot of villages in parts of North and East
Yorkshire. http://colinday.co.uk/maps/NorthYorks.shtml

Why dont you get them to send their location by text from their smartphone
?

How long does it take to stick a post in the ground and put some numbers in
reflective paint on it, I wonder?
Brian

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"williamwright" wrote in message
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On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..


You know how I rant and rave about this sort of thing! I fell out with
half the village because I moaned on the Facebook group about pizza men
getting me out of bed to ask directions.

Bill

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On 01/05/2020 06:03, williamwright wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..


You know how I rant and rave about this sort of thing! I fell out with
half the village because I moaned on the Facebook group about pizza men
getting me out of bed to ask directions.

Bill

Those new gates will be useful then :-)

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I've just been sent an address by somebody. Its in St Ives, but no post
code, there at least two that I know of in the UK.
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"williamwright" wrote in message
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On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

Bill

Taxi, or to be more precise private hire drivers, seem to get totally
confused round my way. OK the sat nav tells them they destinated, but since
both sides of the road have parked cars, nobody in the street in a car can
see the house numbers, as the cars are in the way. I strongly suspect the
only way out would be a very tall pole in the front garden with an
illuminated number, but the local yobs would see this as a challenge.
Brian

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"NY" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..

My brother's house has no number or street name. Basically, the new part
of the town grew up around it. But has its own post code.

How are letters addressed to him? Does he give his contact address in the
form "Fred Bloggs, Town, Postcode", and let the local postmen decode the
postcode into the relevant postman's round? What happens if you go onto
the Royal Mail website and do a reverse lookup from his postcode to the
matching address(es)? Are there no matching addresses in his case?

On Fri, 1 May 2020 20:06:39 +0100, ARW
wrote:

On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Actually the grid reference you have given is to the correct house. But
the house with the caravan in it's drive on Google maps is in next doors
driveway.

Also a left-hand bend would be a right-hand bend if you were driving
in the opposite direction.
--
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On Fri, 1 May 2020 15:02:16 +0100, "NY" wrote:

"williamwright" wrote in message
...
On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

I've had a number of people who live in rural areas who give me similarly
vague "addresses" when I'm going to fix their computer. I always try to get
a proper postal address (eg house number/name and postcode), and look the
house up on Google Streetview beforehand so I know what I'm looking out for.

I had one guy who seemed reluctant to give me the actual house name, and
when he gave it me, he said "It's called Willow Cottage, but that won't help
you because there isn't a sign on the gate". I thought "how the F do you
expect the emergency services to find you if you need an ambulance in a
hurry?".

My ploy of using Google does sometimes fall foul of Google's blurring of car
number plates, because that often blurs signs with house number/name.
Numbers are easy because if you find neighbours whose signs are not blurred,
you can count houses from them, and interpolate.

The best way of finding a house is if there's a village map. I found a site
that has PDF maps for a lot of villages in parts of North and East
Yorkshire. http://colinday.co.uk/maps/NorthYorks.shtml

Google Streetview has never driven down this lane, but the aerial view
is not bad although not showing any caravan.
--
Dave W

williamwright wrote:

On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

Bill
In some parts of the country at least, only about 30% of farms have a
sign at the bottom of the lane to the farm.

--

Roger Hayter

On 01/05/2020 22:47, Dave W wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2020 20:06:39 +0100, ARW
wrote:

On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Actually the grid reference you have given is to the correct house. But
the house with the caravan in it's drive on Google maps is in next doors
driveway.

Also a left-hand bend would be a right-hand bend if you were driving
in the opposite direction.


There is the assumption that I am arriving in the village from a certain
place.

--
Adam

On 01/05/2020 18:25, Pamela wrote:
On 01/05/2020 17:23, charles wrote:
In article ,
Â*Â*Â* Andrew wrote:

ambulance in a hurry?".


A lot of people are too attached to the property name because it 'adds
value to the property' and refuse to use the number that the Post Office
Address File has allocated to the property.

House numbers are allocated by the District Council (or Equivalent). The
Post Office simply makes use of them. Here, it is an offence not to
display
your house number. -- We don't have one, ;-)



Charles.L Hope
Woodside Ockham Road North
West Horsley Leatherhead KT24 6PF


01483 283 856

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I know that house...


--
€œBut what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an
hypothesis!€�

Mary Wollstonecraft

hard to find farm ....

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/117388

On 01/05/2020 17:23, charles wrote:
In article ,
Andrew wrote:
On 01/05/2020 15:02, NY wrote:
"williamwright" wrote in message
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On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a
left hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a
proper address.

I've had a number of people who live in rural areas who give me
similarly vague "addresses" when I'm going to fix their computer. I
always try to get a proper postal address (eg house number/name and
postcode), and look the house up on Google Streetview beforehand so I
know what I'm looking out for.

I had one guy who seemed reluctant to give me the actual house name,
and when he gave it me, he said "It's called Willow Cottage, but that
won't help you because there isn't a sign on the gate". I thought "how
the F do you expect the emergency services to find you if you need an
ambulance in a hurry?".


A lot of people are too attached to the property name because it 'adds
value to the property' and refuse to use the number that the Post Office
Address File has allocated to the property.

House numbers are allocated by the District Council (or Equivalent). The
Post Office simply makes use of them. Here, it is an offence not to display
your house number. -- We don't have one, ;-)

and quite right too... near here there is a road full of big posh houses
with names only ....too posh obviously to have numbers.....I had to
visit a named house one day in pre-computer times and being in Building
control I could have just looked up the OS map before I left but why
should I I thought I had a building warrant with location plan?....I
spent a happy hour trying to find the house on a beautiful summers
day.....I eventually found it and was very late for the
appointment.....told the bloke it was because the street was long and
had no numbers and what did he expect? and his location plan with the
building warrant drawings didn't help because it just showed the
adjacent posh houses with their names...

On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 7:38:43 AM UTC+1, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
hard to find farm ....

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/117388

The Irish Post Codes, Eircodes identify precisely the location of the property. Entering just the Eircode into Google Maps is all it takes.

e.g H91 K6E4. will show you Paddys Bar Galway

They were a long time coming and initially people were reluctant to use them. "Why would I need a post code? The postman knows where I live' Yes but when your house catches fire or you have a heart attack you'll know why you need your post code