please empty your brain below
SL3, typo, Harmondsworth, not Hamondsworth

Lucy Garden | 22.06.23 - 7:28 a.m. | #

Proper comment: hooray, and many thanks to Ollie

Lucy Garden | 22.06.23 - 7:30 a.m. | #

With the big assumption that you visited this delightful café yesterday then what an auspicious and glorious (weather wise) day for you to officially complete your quest. Congratulations!

You mentioned a stream in passing. Are you planning any more posts on London's rivers of whatever hue? I always find these intriguing.

Ken | 22.06.23 - 7:31 a.m. | #

Great job achiving this. After working all that out, you deserve to be in an episode of Jay Foreman's Map Men series. I think he's currently writing new episodes, maybe some emails need to be sent?

Michael B | 22.06.23 - 8:28 a.m. | #

I have cycled along that footpath from Feltham, near the bottling plant, to get to Kempton Race track, not made the journey for about 6 years and the café was not in the layby back then so perhaps I should make a new trip and try their breakfast

John | 22.06.23 - 8:29 a.m. | #

Thanks to Ollie for putting this to bed

Caroline | 22.06.23 - 8:30 a.m. | #

Interesting further information!

My memory of the A316 is from the late 1970s when it formed a meandering link between the M3 and central London. The repeated signs proclaiming the proximity of Sunbury became my guiding light, though I never got an impression of what the fabled Sunbury was actually like.

cau1khead | 22.06.23 - 8:41 a.m. | #

I grew up in Sunbury on Thames (Postcode TW16 6HL). The village part is interesting. Admiral Hawke lived in Hawke House, the Grand Order of the Water Rats first met in the Magpie Pub (there is/was a blue plaque marking this fact outside). Dickens wrote that Oliver Twist spent a night under a tree in St Mary's Churchyard. There's a lovely walled garden in the village and a millennium tapestry made by locals that was officially opened by the Queen. Three men in a boat stopped by the Thames in Sunbury, while many of the buildings in the village are Jacobean. I've not been back for quite a few years but reading your post reminds I should return in the not too distant future. Thank you!

Victoria | 22.06.23 - 10:14 a.m. | #

Congratulations again! Must visit that café one day.

Tony | 22.06.23 - 10:14 a.m. | #

You imagine it's very much a "regulars" type of business, rather than for someone driving towards London and casually deciding to stop there for a fry up after seeing a sign. Especially with those hours.

Mikey C | 22.06.23 - 10:28 a.m. | #

I half expected to see a variety of Spam options on that menu!

I can't get my head around somewhere north of the Thames being in Surrey! It's just wrong!

Cornish Cockney | 22.06.23 - 11:07 a.m. | #

"The authentic secret cafe on the London border you must see for yourself!"

Clik Bate | 22.06.23 - 11:42 a.m. | #

If I were to address a letter with just the Unique Property Reference Number would it get there?

And if I pitched a tent in a pond could I send post to myself via the UPRN?

TomH | 22.06.23 - 12:49 p.m. | #

6 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays is a totally standard set of hours for a roadside cafe in Britain. Apart from the very few 24-hour ones. And the good value, wide choice, and friendly service are quite usual too. Not many salad options, typically, but that's lack of public demand, probably.

Malcolm of Kent | 22.06.23 - 2:16 p.m. | #

I hope this is not too much of a shock to you, but the Hatch End substation within Harrow is accessed from Lytham Avenue WD19.

dg writes: indeed, but all the UPRNs are in Herts.

Sprout Eater | 22.06.23 - 6:17 p.m. | #

Renewed congratulations on your achievement. Also, despite it being after 8pm, I think I am the first to recognise your "welcome break" comment about Fleet Services - I really appreciated your subtle humour! I wonder whether this is in the envelope today.

DavidC | 22.06.23 - 8:17 p.m. | #

First to acknowledge it David, but thats not the same as first to recognise it.

Ben | 22.06.23 - 9:44 p.m. | #

UPRNs linked to WD19 6XA

Sprout Eater | 22.06.23 - 10:20 p.m. | #

Ooh, so Hatch End Grid Substation has UPRN 10025291166 which means a) it's in Harrow and b) its postcode is WD19 6XA.

It's a decent-sized chunk of infrastructure but is it 'an address'?

I see the road up to the front gate is wholly in Herts, beyond which it's all private land, but the footpath intruding into one corner is comfortably London.

(and maybe Ollie's database extract isn't quite definitive, maybe)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 22.06.23 - 10:50 p.m. | #

I'm very pleased that you didn't pass on the chance of a tea, though I think a china mug would have been better even if you sneaked outside to drink it, and fully agree about the teabag removal etiquette. You do still occasionally find places that keep an endless teapot running. Long may they continue.

Andrew S | 22.06.23 - 11:20 p.m. | #

I think I have your unvisited RM19 from when I used to volunteer at Rainham Marshes.

I'm pretty sure I have cleared ragwort from around that pond. That was well before the reserve opened, possibly even during the foot and mouth outbreak

Simon | Homepage | 23.06.23 - 5:31 a.m. | #

Whether you count that UPRN depends on whether you count ones that have since been deleted?

The site you linked to says "This appears to be a deprecated UPRN. It was not included in the most recent OS Open UPRN database update. The documentation supplied by OS does not give any clues as to why a UPRN may be removed from the latest update, but the most plausible assumption is that it has been deleted or marked as historic."

Do you only count current ones? That is the next question :D

Causton | 23.06.23 - 11:41 a.m. | #











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