Odd and even numbering of streets

[gregcropper]

Is there a convention for numbering the streets.? Starting from 1 and 2, is one side always odd (as in left or right)?

[Androcles]

Here is something from the Internet with some history;

http://www.headington...ring_system/index.htm

[heathfield]

There's no hard and fast rule. Originally, one convention largely used was to provide odd numbers on the left and even on the right as you walked away from the nearest Post Office. But with Post offices having moved, or closed, this system can't be relied upon today. To see recommendations on new-build numbering from various local councils round the country, have a look on Google for ''street numbering convention''

[spudqueen]

I always thought that they were numbered with odds on the left and evens on the right, numbers 1 and 2 being at the end of the road nearest the town centre. I have though known roads numbered consecutively (1, 2, 3, etc being all on the same side). What I found fairly confusing was when I lived in Devon on a fairly modern estate. If you walked down the road, say on the right hand side, you'd pass maybe nos 2, 4, 6 and 8, then cross over a side road and find that the next pair of semis on the right were numbered 1 side road then 10, carrying on the numbers on the road you were walking. You could, very confusingly, get two number 2s which were a pair of adjoining semis, one on the road they were on, and numbered for the side road whose corner it stood on!

[scotman]

I don't know about moderntimes but I always understood that numbering started from the Head Post Office in a town. Odd was then on the left and even on the right.