Can you name the most common street names in the U.K.?

created by Matt

Enter a street name in the box below
Correctly named street names will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: Halifax Estate Agents (2009)
Note: Streets with different suffixes counted separately (ie. Fleet Street and Fleet Road)
Also try: U.S. Common Streets

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U.K. Common Streets Quiz

Rating:	Report a mistake
Published: January 22nd, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 24,931

Tags: common, rank, street

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	debbiedoesnothin:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 06:15 GMT	23 points
	Totally confused me. On the U.S. one, you didn't have to add "Street" or "Road" or whatever but on the U.K. one you did. Explains why I got 0 on this quiz. Guess I should've read the "note" but I'm not sure why the U.S. quiz wasn't the same. We have First Street, First Avenue, etc.

	Bethannie:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 07:19 GMT	4 points
	Even for someone living in Britain this was tough! I got number 1....'cos that's the street I live on! Then went through family and friend addresses, and still didn't get them all.. Number 28 was a surprise..never heard of that one in Britain...you live and learn - especially doing Sporcle!

	RavenEleni:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 07:46 GMT	6 points
	im ashamed to say i got 0 and im from britain

	HollywoodLeo:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 07:48 GMT	2 points
	@debbie, the US one was like that at first but they changed it. I went to try the US one and "Main Street" and "main road" were two separate answers. I quit on it, though, because I had to do something. When I came back to start over "Main" was one answer, as was the rest.

	SentioVenia:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 11:20 GMT	4 points
	According to the source, #28 should be "Road" not "Street."

	Nathan Jones:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 GMT	4 points
	I got zero because it confused me too. Why do we need to add "street" and such??

	Ribhump:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 11:58 GMT	3 points
	12, and that was mainly logic, so road and street plus church, station and cardinal directions. plus trying a few monarchs with the same suffixes. but pretty hard one for sure

	Fitzgib:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 12:12 GMT	1 point
	21 - but that was hard!

	Art:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 GMT	12 points
	You shouldn't have to add in the street or road ending.

	davebesag:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 13:35 GMT	0 points
	8 and it was tough. High and Main are relatively obvious. Guessed London Road but surprised how high it is. Got Cromwell, George and Victoria by thinking of well known names.

	Booger:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 14:18 GMT	3 points
	I agree we should not have to add Road, Street, etc. Why not simply have all the streets pop up that include the same prefix (e.g, Fleet would bring up both Fleet Road and Fleet Street)?

	Bray:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 15:03 GMT	1 point
	I didn't get high street or main street O_O I got Warwick Road though. Thank you Duffy. xD

	davidr:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 15:55 GMT	8 points
	@debbiedoesnothing and Nathan J.: Use of street names in the UK differs from that in the US, as far as I can see. In my limited experience, people in the US will refer to, say, Fleet Street as just `Fleet'. However, in the UK, it would always be `Fleet Street' and, if you ask for directions to Fleet, you'll get sent to a town in Hampshire. In the UK, the suffix is an integral part of the street's name; in the US, it's just a word hanging on the end. Quite often, in the UK, there'll be streets with the same name but different suffices in close proximity. Indeed, there used to be something of a fashion for building housing estates and giving all the streets the same name but with different suffices. They stopped doing that because it makes navigation difficult, which is annoying for most people and extremely unhelpful to the emergency services.

	Adam:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 16:26 GMT	-1 points
	ooooh, streets in the U.K. Ooops. I feel less bad about doing so poorly now. I was wondering why 1st Street wasn't one =/.

	marpocky:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 16:27 GMT	1 point
	@davidr: Ah, but the US does this too! As one example, I've been to MANY towns where the roads going one way are numbered streets and the roads going the other way are numbered avenues. A friend of mine lives near the intersection of NE 132nd St and 132nd Ave NE. Tell me the suffix isn't integral there! Just because (according to you) this practice is "more common" in the UK doesn't make the principle any different. As a similar scenario to your Fleet example, if you ask an American how to get to "Main" (street) they may very well send you to our northeasternmost state! (Maine)

	pete:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 17:02 GMT	3 points
	Andy B- Places where suffix is important certainly do exist in the US - but in the vast majority of cases it's unimportant, and in everyday conversation we almost never use them.

	Booger:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 17:06 GMT	2 points
	Try going to Atlanta and asking for Peachtree.

	davidr:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 17:44 GMT	1 point
	@Andy B.: Use of the suffix in the UK is not "common" — it's universal, apart from a few, such as Piccadilly in London, that don't have a suffix. To British ears, talking about a street and leaving off the suffix is like leaving off the word `coat' in either `my orange coat' (means something completely different) or `my blue coat' (turns into complete nonsense).

	lol:):	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 17:47 GMT	5 points
	impossible. im from uk and got 2- both of them in my town:( i think it should be changed though, so you don't have to add street, road, avenue etc.

	cntower:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 18:53 GMT	-2 points
	effin hard

	SixNapoleons:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 19:05 GMT	4 points
	I think keeping road and street is fine but rd and st should be accepted.

	lyttmabatr:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 19:14 GMT	0 points
	Keep it the same sporcle! Hard but not impossible, just kicked myself that I missed so many obvious ones! but sounds like 21 is a respectable score.

	Mr Bojangles:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 23:40 GMT	3 points
	Really hard. Suprised some names like market street, grey street and union street aren't there. I'm from the UK and both of the cities I live in have one of each. Also, abbreviations such as St, Rd, and Av should be acceptable.

	Gravey:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT	4 points
	Wow this is a cunch to the punt, especially after doing the fun US street names quiz. Typing in every possible permutation of name + "words meaning street" isn't all that amusing. Trying to come up with the things Brits would name their streets after, THAT'S the fun. Oh I wish this quiz had never been born!

	chambers:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 12:30 GMT	0 points
	tricky but fairly easy to guess if you live in the uk

	Catherine_F:	Jan 25th, 2009 at 20:44 GMT	2 points
	It's weird that Main Street is third when I can't think of a single Main Street, and I've been around!

	davidr:	Jan 26th, 2009 at 15:23 GMT	1 point
	@Catherine F.: I can't think of any Main Streets, either. But I tried putting `Main Street [county]' into maps.google.co.uk for ten or so counties — every county I tried had at least one Main Street and several had at least ten.

Rating:	Report a mistake
Published: January 22nd, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
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	MartinB:	Mar 4th, 2009 at 18:42 GMT	2 points
	Top quiz, but tough. Got 20 which I'm quite pleased with. Thought there might be some Jubilee Roads, Streets etc.!!

	Sparky:	Apr 14th, 2009 at 14:59 GMT	2 points
	Ha, I'm from Britain and I went in thinking "Right, High Street. Ummm... main street?" ... and after that I got stuck!!! That's really bad. Tough quiz

	tjscouse:	Jun 8th, 2009 at 00:30 GMT	1 point
	so hard, even being from the uk, i could only get 22, so hard!!

	septimushodge:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 22:41 GMT	2 points
	Super hard. I agree that the addition of "road," "street," etc. should not be necessary. That said, I really should have been able to come up with "High Street." Kicking myself.

	Catherine_F:	Aug 1st, 2009 at 19:45 GMT	1 point
	@davidr, six months ago - I just did the same thing. Turns out there isn't a single one in the county I lived in longest. There's just one in the county I live in now, and it's an extremely minor road to be calling itself "Main"! But I did find a few more in other counties.

	tigerschick:	Oct 9th, 2009 at 07:52 GMT	1 point
	I like it the way it is (except possibly making st, rd and ave acceptable) as I have seen so many comments on other quizzes saying that it isn't right when you put in one answer and get other ones 'free'. I only got 22 but am pretty pleased with a couple of the more 'obscure' ones that I did get ... and am trying to forget the obvious ones that I missed ;o)

	Moldemort:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 16:23 GMT	1 point
	In my opinion you should get rid of ones that are almost the same i.e Church Road and Church Lane - I typed in Church Road and presumed this would include Church Lane Church Street etc.

	Lindz87:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 16:05 GMT	2 points
	16/50 But found it quite hard having to have street etc on the end and wasnt sure if it was only street and road or if avenue etc was part of it hence thinking school but missed the lane bit, intresting quiz though

	craggers:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 20:57 GMT	0 points
	Got 25 by working out obvious landmarks, famous Royals, directions etc. Don't think it needs changing...you can always try each suffix anyway. Good one...needs a bit guesswork, but a good quiz needs logic too, and this has it.

	jakobianweller:	Nov 28th, 2009 at 13:14 GMT	2 points
	expecting coronation street to come up as bonus answer!

	anarresti:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 12:41 GMT	0 points
	Tricky quiz but what a fine idea! It would be a bit silly if it didn't require 'Road', 'Street' &c. I, too, wondered about Main Street. A search on streetmap.co.uk shows that a fair number of these are in Scotland and very few are in southern England.

	Splodge:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 20:43 GMT	1 point
	Very interesting. I felt certain about the first four but otherwise mostly tried conspicuously 'Anglo' names that were also adopted in my own corner of the (former) British empire. :)