enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The most unique street names in the world - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/2017-08-02-the-most-unique...

    Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.

  3. Time Out’s list of the world’s coolest streets revealed for 2024

    www.aol.com/time-list-world-coolest-streets...

    The top 10 ‘coolest street in the world’ High Street, Melbourne. Hollywood Road, Hong Kong. East Eleventh, Austin. Guatemala Street, Buenos Aires. Commerical Drive, Vancouver. Jalan Petaling ...

  4. List of eponymous streets in New York City - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_streets...

    Dyckman Street – named for Dutch farmer William Dyckman, whose family owned over 250 acres (11,000,000 sq ft) of farmland in the area; the Dyckman House, located nearby at the corner of Broadway and 204th Street, was built by William Dyckman in 1784 and is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan, and many consider it the border between ...

  5. Streets Named After Presidents: By Popularity, Home Prices - AOL

    www.aol.com/2014/02/15/presidents-most-streets...

    Some street names are much more popular than others, and homes on some streets are also much more expensive. ... 12.2 percent are on a street or road named after our first president and the nation ...

  6. Street suffix - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_suffix

    While English street names follow British convention, they usually occasionally show local and international influences. Some private housing developers name roads with French and Italian names. A handful of names have prefixes rather than suffices; for simplicity these are included with suffices in this section.

  7. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_names_considered_unusual

    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  8. Jones Sausage to Glascock: The history behind some of ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/jones-sausage-glascock-history...

    Surrounding street names include Mine Shaft Road, Prospector Place and Nugget Lane. • Rock Quarry Road : A rock quarry used to be in this area, and the stones were used to build the State ...

  9. Street name - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_name

    Some street names have only one element, such as "The Beeches" or "Boulevard". In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was common when writing a two-part street name (especially in Britain) to link the two parts with a hyphen and not capitalise the generic (e.g. Broad-street, London-road). This practice has now died out.