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Offline Nick Carver

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Re: naming of roads
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 08 January 08 13:08 GMT (UK) »
Road names also change. From a 1400s map of my village, I can see (for instance) that Blatherwyck Street is now West Street, to the detriment of the village IMHO
E Yorks - Carver, Steels, Cross, Maltby, Whiting, Moor, Laybourn
W Yorks - Wilkinson, Kershaw, Rawnsley, Shaw
Norfolk - Carver, Dowson
Cheshire - Berry, Cooper
Lincs - Berry
London/Ireland/Scotland/Lincs - Sullivan
Northumberland/Durham - Nicholson, Cuthbert, Turner, Robertson
Berks - May
Beds - Brownell