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And on the letter Q you also have the tube station Queensway.

dg writes: Added, thanks.

Jorg | 09.05.19 - 7:04 a.m. | #

The Goblin also has the rather nicely named Junction Road Junction where the connection to the Midland Main Line leaves/joins.

Robert Butlin | 09.05.19 - 7:22 a.m. | #

A second York Road station (1866 - 1977) was just north of what is now Kings Cross Platform 0. It was the last above-ground station before suburban trains disappeared into the Maiden Lane Tunnel on their way to Moorgate.

RayL | 09.05.19 - 7:43 a.m. | #

Are there any bus stop Q's, X's or bus stop Z's?

dg writes: Over 100 of each.

In fact which is the letter furthest along the alphabet that bus stops go up to? I am led to believe from previous posts that they do go up to M.

MO | 09.05.19 - 8:04 a.m. | #

Westbourne Park bus garage and before that Middle Row were coded X.

Clay Hall (Old Ford) used to be coded Y before becoming CL, Y was also the code for St. Mary Cray.

J was used for the former Holloway bus garage which closed in 1971.

Q is still used for Camberwell.

Not sure if Z has been used for a garage code, but before using 7xx numbers, Green Line operated a route Z between Aldgate and Tilbury (they also had a J, Q, X and Y).

Still Anon | 09.05.19 - 8:40 a.m. | #

For those who do the Parkrun alphabet challenge, the lack of places starting with an X is a major frustration.

(Even more so, as there are no Parkruns anywhere in the world that start with X)

Jon Jones | 09.05.19 - 9:21 a.m. | #

Xylon house has 8 flats on top. But there are only 14 dormer Windows.
So does someone get none?
Or maybe one flat is split in two.

Joho | Homepage | 09.05.19 - 9:46 a.m. | #

Apart from "Queen" etc. there are very few other instances of Q. One of my favourite is Quex Road, a collection of bus-stops near Kilburn.

The Banbury Man | Homepage | 09.05.19 - 9:50 a.m. | #

...and at the end; Zulu Mews ...which you going to say you've visited.

Grumpy Anon | 09.05.19 - 10:10 a.m. | #

I feel sorry for the citizens living near Junction Road.

They took all that the Luftwaffe could throw at them in the Blitz and then some civil servant shuts their station down.

Chris | 09.05.19 - 10:46 a.m. | #

Annoyingly, Xerox's UK HQ in Uxbridge is Bridge House.

JohnC | 09.05.19 - 10:49 a.m. | #

A third English station starting with J is James Street. Officially known as Liverpool James Street, but that seems to be a naming quirk - I doubt if the full name is normally used in conversation.

Malcolm | 09.05.19 - 10:52 a.m. | #

Not a place or building, but Zampa Road will be known to some football fans, as that is the address of The Den, Millwall's football ground.

Mikey C | 09.05.19 - 10:55 a.m. | #

Apropos of nothing my weather app almost always defaults to Yiewsley when I arrive in London from home in Brighton.

Mark | Homepage | 09.05.19 - 11:17 a.m. | #

As well as the 2 Js on the National Rail system in England (James Street in Liverpool and Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham) there are 2 on the Tyne & Wear Metro (Jarrow and Jesmond),

3078260061 | 09.05.19 - 11:24 a.m. | #

My 2007 Philip's Street Atlas of London also has a solitary X entry. It's for Xavier House E17. I wonder if like the A-Z the compilers felt we must put one in...

They also beat the A-Z on Z's with 25 entries including the randomly named ZK Park in Croydon which appears to be an industrial estate.

ap | 09.05.19 - 11:28 a.m. | #

When I ran the A-Z of marathons, I went to China to run the Xiamen Marathon. Closest I could get. Perhaps a parkrun there then, up and down the prom.

Running_Correspondent | 09.05.19 - 11:57 a.m. | #

There’s also Zodiac Court in Croydon. I wrote an extensive history of it a couple of years ago.

Kake | 09.05.19 - 12:01 p.m. | #

Thanks for the info on Wikipedia list of place names.
Eton Wick is listed twice (Berks & Bucks).I lived there as a child and remember that it changed to Berks in the changes to counties in 1974.

James | Homepage | 09.05.19 - 12:10 p.m. | #

Joho, Perhaps the eighth flat is in the extension at the left-hand end.

Great Aunt Annie | 09.05.19 - 12:26 p.m. | #

To find certain place names, you could also run a query with Openstreetmap's Overpass API, for example on http://overpass-turbo.eu.

Overpass Turbo has a wizard where you can enter a query string like name~"^X.*" (the quoted part being a Regular Expression matching names starting with X). Then click "Build and run the query" to see the results on a map.

(Unfortunately, if you try too often like I just did, you'll soon exhaust a quota.)

Joachim | 09.05.19 - 12:39 p.m. | #

I think that is the lift/stairwell.

Joho | Homepage | 09.05.19 - 12:59 p.m. | #

Of the eight flats atop Xylon House, one pays Council Tax Band A, one pays Band B, five pay Band C and one pays Band D.

So the layout's not entirely regular.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.05.19 - 1:10 p.m. | #

Let's not forget that one of the London locations beginning with Q has a Championship football club named after it: Queens Park Rangers.

X-Plaistow | 09.05.19 - 1:11 p.m. | #

Am very fond of Quex Road in Kilburn, which is much more than a collection of bus stops. Good area for Scrabble too, as it has an intersection with Mutrix Road.

I have often wondered whether there is anywhere else in London where two roads including an "X" anywhere in their name meet.

Dominic H | 09.05.19 - 1:43 p.m. | #

And according to Google Maps Xavier House is still there (17 Priory Ct, Walthamstow, London, E17 5NB).

I'm amazed there isn't a Xavier Street/Road/etc. anywhere in the UK!

kcm | Homepage | 09.05.19 - 3:04 p.m. | #

There's only one street in the entire UK beginning with X according to the Royal Mail database, and it's less than a year old:

Xanten Way in the Salisbury suburb of Fugglestone St Peter, which is the access road to a primary school that's still partially under construction. (Xanten being a medieval cathedral city in Germany twinned with Salisbury.)

Gregg | 09.05.19 - 3:56 p.m. | #

There’s a Zoar Street in SE1, a very short road just around the back of the Tate Modern

Rob | 09.05.19 - 5:11 p.m. | #

There was once a street called XX Place somewhere in East London. It was the site of a brewery. I have never been able to find exactly where it was.

James Webber | 09.05.19 - 7:21 p.m. | #

No wait! There's a XX Place health centre in Mile End, so that must have been where the brewery was!

James Webber | 09.05.19 - 7:24 p.m. | #

Details of XX Place - including a photo of it - on another great blog.

ap | 09.05.19 - 7:28 p.m. | #

There is another 'Z' TfL bus-stop, though admittedly it is not in Greater London: Zig Zag Road, in Mickleham at the bottom of Box Hill.

Geoff | 09.05.19 - 9:29 p.m. | #

Think I should open a Xylophone museum. Sounds like it would be a hit.

Rick | 09.05.19 - 11:37 p.m. | #

With someone having mentioned a Zulu Mews, does that mean that Zoffany Rd. is no longer the last road in London, alphabetically?

dg writes: Yes.

Chz | 10.05.19 - 7:39 a.m. | #

Another potential X candidate: it isn't a block of flats, so won't have a special listing in the A-Z, but a building in Leyton is called Xelapop House. I have no idea why. [Google Maps]

Klepsie | 13.05.19 - 10:58 p.m. | #











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