doea anyone know how i can find out the history of how a street got its name?
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Type the name of the street into google search that's what I did and I found out that the name of my road was the name of a battle from the first world war in Flanders fields, that our local soldiers fought.
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The oldest 'road' (paved) that I can think of at the moment is Route 66....hope that helps!
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Watling Street \n\nWatling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans. The Romans later paved the route.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street
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The long term effects of alcohol are many and easily discovered by putting alcoholism into a search engine. As for street names, it is called bingo, bug, screech, hooch, and many, many other references. \n\nYour question was very difficult to figure out, by the way, as it reads as though you are asking for the long term effects of street names, as well as the long term effects of alcohol. \n\nAnd it would be nice if you said please, instead of 'so help now'.
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If you are in Aurora, contact the local historical society to see if they have any information on the home.  You could also go to the town clerk's office and look at the historical land records for that house and that could give you a clue to it's history too.
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Did you check Classmates.com or check Google for your city hall. Maybe the name has changed???
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it means "is the street yours"
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http://www.sedona.net/fdetat2/history.html\n\nthis should help
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Huh? How does it work? It lays there and you walk on it i guess...\n\nthe best way to figure out the cross st is to look at the sign. i guess it's easier because the streets are numbered (see below). but that doesn't stop tourists from getting lost. so i guess the surefire way to figure out the cross st is to look at a map. example: buy one or go to a subway station and look at theirs. \n\nthe overall grid is composed of numbered streets and numbered and lettered avenues. numbers of streets are smaller the further south you go (toward downtown) and get bigger going north (uptown). the avenue numbers are larger in the west and smaller in the east. further east past first avenue, there are avenues demarked by letter (Avenue A, B, C)\n\ndowntown past first st is still generally grid patterned, but slightly less so -- more alleys, diagnols, sts not at perfect right angles, etc. \n\nthe streets have names, as in most other towns. since downtown was what was first settled, some street names paint a picture of how downtown manhattan looked when it first started as a dutch settlement. wall st. and canal st. are named after an actuall wall and canal. \n\nThe grid plan was formulated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, when most of the grid wasn't even settled. some of the few houses in the relative wilderness beyond downtown were actually in the middle of where streets were supposed to be. instead of building roads around these houses, the government stuck to their gridpattern vision and actaily bought out the people who owned these house. \n\nhere is a source on grid patterns in genera;:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_plan\n\nalso, if you have digital cable, watch "We built this city: New York" -- i think its on the discovery times channel.
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http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/byheading.php?sub=history
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look it up on the internet
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Have you tried the local library?  They might have some books with the history of the city, and you might find some of the information on the street names in them.
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Oysters!\n\nPearl Street is named for the aboundant oyster shells that washed ashore.
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hello J, before you can figure out that complex question you must first declare what piece of ground your home is located at. as an example your state , then maybe city, or county, or parish, then quite possibly a street name. ask mom then come back with that info then maybe i can ask my mom  and we can get you the help you need. so go now and i will wait. go on im waiting
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The oldest part of Hyde Park once belonged to the manor of Ebury. This land had an area of one hide (anything between 60 and 120 acres, or 0.24 to 0.49 km²), which gave the park its name.\n\nFYI: You should note that, although the park's name was derived from a unit of measure (a hide), the name of the park is spelled with a "y" instead of an "I".\n\nBTW: Pay no attention to DrShorty below. Looking up the etmology of words or the history behind why certain places and things are named the way the are is an important thing, I feel. It's good to know one's history, or history at all.
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Try contacting the local historical society.
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Sounds like it's had quite a history.\n\nGo to http://195.217.202.176/publicaccess/ and do a property search on the postcode you mentioned.\nThen click on View Details, then Application History.\n\nIt gives you info on all the planning applications that's been requested for this site (of course this doesn't mean they were built though)\nThere's info about a TRANSFORMER SUB-STATION, a lab of some sort, the Ministry of Defence and a beer store.\n\n\nwww.upmystreet.com might be able to tell you more.