Add to this list with actual synonyms for “street” in your area:
Avenue
Boulevard
Road
Pike
Court
Curve
Lane
Drive
Add to this list with actual synonyms for “street” in your area:
Avenue
Boulevard
Road
Pike
Court
Curve
Lane
Drive
Close
Circuit
Crescent
Retreat
Way
One of my friends lives on Such-and-such Circle.
I live on an “avenue” which is quite a majestic name for my dead end street comprising +/- 20 houses.
Other roads in my town are called
Way
Place
Heights
Alley
Extension
Parkway
Is that the actual full name? I like it, even if it’s not.
Makes me think we need a Boat Names thread.
[hijack potential subset of the OP]: give names for dead ends, like cul-de-sac [/hpsotop]
Calle
Avenida
Via
Carretera
Avenue, Park, Grove, Drive, Lawns, Crescent.
The street up the road from me is just called Something-lands, named for the original owners of the land, the somethings.
Row
Gardens
Walk
Croft
Place
Grove
View
Parkway
Common
Nook
Terrace
Mount
Fields
Gate
Hill
Specifically Scottish:
Vennel
Wynd
One of the longest streets in Sydney (from Moore Park to La Perouse) is Anzac Parade.
In the suburb of Castlecrag many of the streets don’t have the title, being named after castle features e.g. The Rampart, The Scarp, The Parapet, The Bastion and Sortie Port.
Sexy!
Circus, Mews and Downs, to add the above. A lot of places also don’t have a street name at all.
I once lived in a place - a new-build with no excuse of tradition - that had a Goldsmiths Crescent, a Goldsmiths Rd, two other Goldsmiths-somethings that I forget, and a simple Goldsmiths. We all got to know each other well by picking up misdelivered mail.
Damn you posters who snuck in while I was looking at the map!
I forgot to mention that where I live a few streets are simply named “The something or other” eg “The Moor” and a couple that aren’t “Name Synonym for Street” but all one word: Commonside or Upperthorpe.
ETA Penultima Thule got in first with the “The” names too.
I used to live in a suburb of L.A. that has streets with names in Spanish:
Avenida: “Avenida de los Flores”
Calle: “Calle Margarita”
Rue
From a local street directory, and not previously mentioned:
Arcade
Brace, Brae
Chase
Circlet
Esplanade
Expressway
Freeway
Glen
Highway
Plaza
Promenade
Quay
Square
And we have a one-off called Bell’s Line of Road.
In York, UK, the streets are called Gates.
The gates are called Bars
And the bars are called Inns.
All hale the BLoR.
First time I came across it (needing to confirm an address, and being a Victorian to boot) I thought the person was just out to piss me off.
Second time, I asked about it’s origins…alas, the resident was a newbie and didn’t have a clue.
I’m still waiting for a verifiable, authenticatable, dinkum explanation for the background for Bell’s Line of Road.
Simple enough.
As Australia’s First City grew there was a need to expand and the way west was blocked by the Blue Mountains. Explorers pushed west using the valleys but inevitably ran into sheer escapements. Eventually in 1813 Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson found a barely trafficable and reasonably direct route using the ridges.
In 1823 Archibald Bell found an alternative route by the simple method of asking the local aboriginals how they had traded across the Blue Mountains for centuries. It’s an easier route on foot, but it’s narrow, bounded by deep gorges, full of switchbacks and steep grades, lets call it scenic … if you are travelling slowly.
Originally was known as Bells Line, it became Bells Line of Road in 1905 when it became trafficable by vehicles, though mostly as a single lane. Until WWII the notion of having a second track west was considered of strategic value but it wasn’t until 1950 that the road became two lanes
Suspect the name is probably a piss take as there’s no straight line on Bells Road.
http://www.ozroads.com.au/NSW/RouteNumbering/State%20Routes/40/bellslineofroad.htm
In Kansas City, MO, “Terrace” (mentioned in post #9) is used as a “half” for numbered streets. For example, in order, there’s 55th St., 55th Ter., 56th St., 56th Ter., 57th St., etc.