# Interesting Subdivision Street Name Themes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256 "2009-11-28T17:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/121 "2011-03-29T19:06:47Z")
I once lived in a Titania Street, in a suburb of Sydney, which intersected with Oberon Street. There is also a Helena Street continuing that theme. but that’s as far as it goes. Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/122 "2011-03-29T19:13:09Z")
Does anybody have a section with streets named Romero, O’Bannon, Snyder, Kirkman, Moore…? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/123 "2011-03-29T19:16:12Z")
This is a zombie, but there’s an [estate](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Throgmorton+Road,+Yateley&aq=3&sll=26.787299,-82.153015&sspn=0.47933,1.024475&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Throgmorton+Rd,+Yateley+GU46+6FA,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.336068,-0.845883&spn=0.005242,0.016007&z=16) in my town named after the conspirators in the [Gunpowder Plot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot) of 1605. Some of the people commemorated seem to be pretty minor players, though. There is a genuine historical link, of sorts, in that Monteagle Lane was named that long before the growth of modern suburbia, after [Lord Monteagle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parker,_4th_Baron_Monteagle) who had a house nearby. Local legend has it that the plot was hatched at his house in the town, but that is almost certainly not true. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/124 "2011-03-29T20:59:28Z")
I grew up on Vassar Rd., intersected by Lawrence Ln. and Radcliffe Rd. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/125 "2011-03-29T21:37:06Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > A neighborhood near me named Camelot, with appropriate street names. But I noticed that Guinevere Dr intersects with Launcelot Way, but does not intersect with King Arthur Rd … :dubious: > > Stupidest one IMNSHO is a street named “Sir Viceroy Drive” :rolleyes: Somebody really knew their Arthurian lore. Does King Arthur Rd. intersect a Morgan Le Fay Rd.? “relationships” ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/126 "2011-03-29T23:30:04Z")
Confederate generals/officers: Robert E. Lee, Bedford Forrest, Beauregard, Pickett, Jeb Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet, Greenhowe, Chalmers, Johnston, Buckner, Breckenridge, Pemberton, Early, Pettigrew, Semmes. Link: https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pine%2Bvalley%2Bdrive%2Bwilmington%2Bnc&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.02306,106.787109&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Pine%2BValley%2BDr,%2BWilmington,%2BNew%2BHanover,%2BNorth%2BCarolina&ll=34.183264,-77.9074&spn=0.016828,0.052142&t=h&z=15 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256.md?page=6)