# Where you live: different names for "street" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945 "2011-06-26T21:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/1 "2011-06-26T21:30:05Z")
Add to this list with actual synonyms for “street” in your area: Avenue Boulevard Road Pike Court Curve Lane Drive ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/2 "2011-06-26T21:43:09Z")
Close Circuit Crescent Retreat Way ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/3 "2011-06-26T21:44:56Z")
One of my friends lives on Such-and-such Circle. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/4 "2011-06-26T21:47:49Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/5 "2011-06-26T21:51:41Z")
> [@apollonia](#): > > One of my friends lives on Such-and-such Circle. Is that the actual full name? I like it, even if it’s not. 🙂 Makes me think we need a Boat Names thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/6 "2011-06-26T21:59:08Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > I live on an “avenue” which is quite a majestic name for my dead end street comprising +/- 20 houses. [hijack potential subset of the OP]: give names for dead ends, like cul-de-sac [/hpsotop] ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/7 "2011-06-26T22:03:41Z")
Calle Avenida Via Carretera ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/8 "2011-06-26T22:04:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/9 "2011-06-26T22:09:58Z")
Row Gardens Walk Croft Place Grove View Parkway Common Nook Terrace Mount Fields Gate Hill Specifically Scottish: Vennel Wynd ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/10 "2011-06-26T22:10:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/11 "2011-06-26T22:12:20Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/12 "2011-06-26T22:12:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/13 "2011-06-26T22:16:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/14 "2011-06-27T00:03:30Z")
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_” ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/15 "2011-06-27T02:41:27Z")
Rue ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/16 "2011-06-27T05:08:09Z")
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**. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/17 "2011-06-27T10:26:52Z")
In York, UK, the streets are called Gates. The gates are called Bars And the bars are called Inns. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/18 "2011-06-27T10:33:55Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > And we have a one-off called **Bell’s Line of Road**. 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.** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/19 "2011-06-27T11:47:42Z")
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](http://www.ozroads.com.au/NSW/RouteNumbering/State%20Routes/40/bellslineofroad.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/20 "2011-06-27T13:02:46Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945.md?page=2)