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I wonder if A to Z is possible anywhere. Apart from planned cities with lettered streets, that is!
anon | 14.12.20 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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Well I can get nowhere. The road where I live starts with a T and turns into one starting with C, no other options.
davews | 14.12.20 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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I'd get no further than 400 yards. My road's name begins with the letter R, and the outlets with B, C and F, plus two very short Ws.
Alan S | 14.12.20 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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I'm a dead end, too, but a reverse alphabetical order would take me to almost 10 miles, which is not bad for a zone 2 location.
commonliner | 14.12.20 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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I start with an A which leads onto a B which can then lead on to the A1 or "Great North Road". Seems promising for distance purposes but according to streetmap.co.uk it turns into a B in one direction after a few hundred metres and into a T in the other in just a couple of miles, although I don't believe there are road signs announcing the "B" or "T" name at any point. Indeed, Google directions tell me it's Great North Road all the way up to turning into a motorway.
mushroomcounter | 14.12.20 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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My street begins with a "B", but I can only manage four roads, total distance about one mile, or five roads, total distance two miles but ending up only half a mile from where I started.
timbo | 14.12.20 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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I live in Ashford Road, which is a promising start. Then Cricklewood Broadway, left into Cricklewood Lane, then Finchley Road. Trying to work out whether to go North or South from there, going North would take me to the North Circular Road at Henley's Corner, will explore the possibilities.
Richard | 14.12.20 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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What are the rules for Unnamed Roads? Are they a U or a wildcard?
If the latter ...
Angram Lane to Butthouse Rigg then unnamed road to Nateby then unnamed road down Mallerstangdale to Garsdale Head then unnamed road to Long Lane in Sedburgh to Main Street to Station Road to an unbelievably long unnamed road to Kirby Lonsdale.
Total distance approx 40 miles (1 hr 18 mins to drive according to Google Maps)
Putters | 14.12.20 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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Further to my previous post:
Ashford Road, Cricklewood Broadway, Cricklewood Lane, Finchley Road, North Circular Road, then Western Avenue(A40) all the way out to Denham Roundabout. The whole journey is about 15 miles.
Richard | 14.12.20 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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4.7 miles, Kingston Road - London Road - Stonecot Hill - Sutton Common Road and end on Angel Hill
Mike | Homepage | 14.12.20 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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No good either, B to C to W!
Mikey C | 14.12.20 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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About 6.5 miles to just north of Mount Vernon Hospital here - specifically at a pub we made a lunch stop at on that section of the London Loop! Excellent!
Cornish Cockney | 14.12.20 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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Living in Acton at least gives me a good start, if I can put the Lane, the High Street and the Vale in the right order. And being next to Chiswick might help as well.
ActonMan | 14.12.20 - 12:03 p.m. | #
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A very fine article, DG. Those mid century dwellings at Stepney Green look more like maisonettes than flats to me though.
cau1khead | 14.12.20 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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You didn't reach Mornington Crescent then.
Andrew S | 14.12.20 - 12:50 p.m. | #
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Not very good, about 400 meters it is for me, just my road.
But I know most of your route described very well. Between the ages of 3 to 13 I lived in Stepney Green and continued at school in the area until I was seventeen.
During the 80's the clock tower suffered from vandalism and neglect; there was graffiti and well aimed stones had taken out all the glass clock faces. It's looking ok now.
For those 10 years SG was my little world. Two newsagents/tobacconists, 2 bakeries, 2 synagogue's, 2 schools, jewish deli, barbers shop, ladies hairdresser, post office, general store, fruit/veg, pub, small hospital(yes!), cubs/scouts hall, doctors surgery, Birds Eye food factory, furniture upholsterer, etc. All, and I mean all, now sadly gone.
But thanks for that trip down memory lane!
Dave | 14.12.20 - 1:08 p.m. | #
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As I live on Willow Lane, I can go about 50 metres before running out. Reverse alphabetic gets me to around 200m, so that game ends quickly for me.
Jimbo | 14.12.20 - 1:20 p.m. | #
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All streets around my home start with Y, and the main road outside start with W, so a lost cause for me.
Instead I will try my luck from my workplace, the street outside which starts with D and a nearby street F.
Patrickov | 14.12.20 - 1:50 p.m. | #
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I could have sworn you "lived" on Fairfield Road.
B | 14.12.20 - 1:54 p.m. | #
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Blenheim Park Road, Kingsdown Avenue, Montpellier Road, Purley Park Road, Riddlesdown Road. Couple of miles at the most.
Robert Butlin | 14.12.20 - 3:23 p.m. | #
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I can do 105 km, but it is a bit of a cheat as it is all one road (out the house, then left and go straight on until you eventually reach the T-junction). I suspect large sections of the road are unnamed, but I drove it earlier this year and the road name at the T-junction matches the name of the road at my end, so arguably it is all the same name.
Friar Sven | 14.12.20 - 5:18 p.m. | #
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"I wonder if A to Z is possible anywhere. Apart from planned cities with lettered streets, that is!"
You wouldn't necessarily do better in cities like this - the sequentially lettered streets typically run parallel to one another rather than intersecting.
Josh | 14.12.20 - 5:35 p.m. | #
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I am amazed that no one has picked you up on going from Whitechapel to White Church on the basis that lexicographical convention dictates that a space precedes an A.
However, having checked, I can confirm that the A-Z (of West Yorkshire, at least) does not follow that convention, so you're off that hook.
Sarah | Homepage | 14.12.20 - 6:14 p.m. | #
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There are at least two conventions for alphabetical order, one of which includes spaces and one of which disregards them.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.12.20 - 6:19 p.m. | #
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Well, this is where North America's habit of numbered cross streets counts against me. Although starting on a W doesn't help...
But anti-alphabetical? Westview > Larson > Fell > Edgemont > Capilano > Canyon > Blueridge takes me in a 7.2km loop but only 3km away as the crow flies.
Wayne | 14.12.20 - 8:54 p.m. | #
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Hold the front page, I've found a longer anti-alphabetical route: 10km dead but only 2.1km away: Westview > Queens > Lonsdale > Keith > Grand > 18th (Eighteenth, right?) > Chesterfield.
Thanks DG, this is all very useful and productive.
Wayne | 14.12.20 - 10:59 p.m. | #
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My street, Darling Row is bookended by Collingwood Street and Cambridge Heath Road, even cutting through the side entrance into Sainsbury's leads me to Brady Street
lumma | Homepage | 15.12.20 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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I live near the hospital in Tooting with Garratt Lane at the end of my (pre-G alphabetically) road.
I think the furthest I can get as the crow flies is 3.25 miles, to the junction of Wandsworth Bridge Road and New Kings Road. Route: (My street) > Garratt Lane > Magdalen Road > Trinity Road > Wandsworth Bridge Road
Another end point, not quite as far away (2.5m) but a more roundabout route, is the Wimbledon Windmill: (my street) > Garratt Lane > Kimber Road > Merton Road > West Hill > Wimbledon Parkside > Windmill Road
A fun exercise, thanks DG!
gooneruk | Homepage | 15.12.20 - 2:13 p.m. | #
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