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Why is my place a Road, Street, Lane or Close?
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We all live in places with street names, i.e Acacia Avenue, Avondale Road, Orchard Close, Wells Street, Chapel Lane or Rowan Gardens. So, what is the difference between a street, road, avenue, gardens, lane or a close?
Would I be right in thinking a close is like a cul de sac (dead end) and a lane is a long, narrow windy road? But how does an Avenue, Road, Street and Gardens differ?
Would I be right in thinking a close is like a cul de sac (dead end) and a lane is a long, narrow windy road? But how does an Avenue, Road, Street and Gardens differ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The way I see it, avenues and gardens are where posh people live. streets and roads are where the common people live.
I'm not a snob honest, you must know what I mean though. In towns and cities where there are great areas of terraced housing and suchlike, you will never (or very rarely) find an avenue or gardens or even a crescent (apart from Bath in the example above, where they are all posh anyway...). In the nice leafy suburbs on the outskirts you will usually never find streets. You do get roads but they are normally the main road that runs from one town/city to the next.
I know what I'm waffling about, hopefully someone else will :-)
I'm not a snob honest, you must know what I mean though. In towns and cities where there are great areas of terraced housing and suchlike, you will never (or very rarely) find an avenue or gardens or even a crescent (apart from Bath in the example above, where they are all posh anyway...). In the nice leafy suburbs on the outskirts you will usually never find streets. You do get roads but they are normally the main road that runs from one town/city to the next.
I know what I'm waffling about, hopefully someone else will :-)
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