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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.
A path along the side of a road. Shoulder A reserved lane by the verge of a road or motorway. Shunpiking The act of deliberately avoiding toll roads by using a toll-free alternate route. Single carriageway or undivided highway A road with one, two, or more lanes arranged within a roadway or carriageway with no physical separation of opposing ...
(Other than Mount E this is the shortest place name in Japan in both Japanese phonology and orthography. All other Japanese place names in this section require at least two kana.) Ub, a town in Serbia; Ui, a town in Republic of Korea; Ug, short name for Tiszaug, Hungary; Ul, a parish in the Oliveira de Azeméis municipality in Portugal
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 ...
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.
The street name usually forms part of the address (though addresses in some parts of the world, notably most of Japan, make no reference to street names). Buildings are often given numbers along the street to further help identify them. Odonymy is the study of road names.
FG Trade/Getty Images. 15. Brad. A diminutive form of Bradley and Bradshaw—this boy’s name of British origin has starpower on its side (hello, Brad Pitt) and a meaning of “broad and wide.”
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 February 2025. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 Left-hand traffic Right-hand traffic No data Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side ...