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The most brainfuckery'd UK address oddity I've encountered is a road in North Manchester which has the same house number twice on the same road in the same sett

The most brainfuckery'd UK address oddity I've encountered is a road in North Manchester which has the same house number twice on the same road in the same settlement. In other words, there's two houses legitimately called something like "280 Manchester Road, Frogstall". This is because the village is split between two borough councils, and each started from 1 when numbering their street. So one of them is "280 Manchester Road, Frogstall, Rochdale, Greater Manchester" and the other is "280 Manchester Road, Frogstall, Oldham, Greater Manchester". Exasperatingly I can't find the exact address again.

bloak 3y ago
443 Manchester Road. See https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/ https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/
- Doctor_Fegg 3y ago
  That’s it - thank you!
marssaxman 3y ago
I used to live on a street like this in Seattle: three blocks from its northern end, the numbering scheme resets and begins counting back up. Seven houses in the northern section therefore share their numbers with houses twelve blocks south. Mine was not one of them, but I got many calls from confused delivery drivers all the same, looking on the wrong section of the street for my seemingly-nonexistent house.
cwmma 3y ago
In Boston (Massachusetts USA) there are two different 24 School Streets, the other one is in a community that were annexed by Boston, so you'd say 24 School St Jamaica Plain but saying "Boston" isn't wrong either. For a long time Google Maps for some reason didn't store the zip code when you put this as your work address and would simply choose whichever one was closest to the destination.
- madcaptenor 3y ago
  Related but not exactly the same - there are a few streets that have duplicate numbers close to each other because they run from a point in Cambridge to one in Somerville, and both cities number up from 1 at their end of the street. I can’t find an example though…
ProllyInfamous 3y ago
I just moved away from a similar situation in SE Tennessee: multiple properties share "the same address" along the same road because this state highway passes through a city, then county, then a different city. My former property (a duplex) had the same repeat addresses as a financial advisor, health spa, and post office. Many people showed up over the years, looking for such services from a decrepit 100 year old cabin located miles away from their intended destination. -- When I attempted to resolve this numbering issue, the postmaster made it very clear that people would fight this (and did). After eight years, I recently moved away [and nothing has been resolved].
themoonisachees 3y ago
I once had to meet in person in with someone and they chose a town in France near our common objective. The town happened to be sitting across a departement line and had two town halls, each of which oversaw half of the town. Guess where we were supposed to meet in a time before cell phones.

bloak 3y ago

443 Manchester Road. See https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/ https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/

Doctor_Fegg 3y ago
That’s it - thank you!

marssaxman 3y ago

I used to live on a street like this in Seattle: three blocks from its northern end, the numbering scheme resets and begins counting back up. Seven houses in the northern section therefore share their numbers with houses twelve blocks south. Mine was not one of them, but I got many calls from confused delivery drivers all the same, looking on the wrong section of the street for my seemingly-nonexistent house.

cwmma 3y ago

In Boston (Massachusetts USA) there are two different 24 School Streets, the other one is in a community that were annexed by Boston, so you'd say 24 School St Jamaica Plain but saying "Boston" isn't wrong either. For a long time Google Maps for some reason didn't store the zip code when you put this as your work address and would simply choose whichever one was closest to the destination.

madcaptenor 3y ago
Related but not exactly the same - there are a few streets that have duplicate numbers close to each other because they run from a point in Cambridge to one in Somerville, and both cities number up from 1 at their end of the street. I can’t find an example though…

ProllyInfamous 3y ago

I just moved away from a similar situation in SE Tennessee: multiple properties share "the same address" along the same road because this state highway passes through a city, then county, then a different city. My former property (a duplex) had the same repeat addresses as a financial advisor, health spa, and post office. Many people showed up over the years, looking for such services from a decrepit 100 year old cabin located miles away from their intended destination. -- When I attempted to resolve this numbering issue, the postmaster made it very clear that people would fight this (and did). After eight years, I recently moved away [and nothing has been resolved].

themoonisachees 3y ago

I once had to meet in person in with someone and they chose a town in France near our common objective. The town happened to be sitting across a departement line and had two town halls, each of which oversaw half of the town. Guess where we were supposed to meet in a time before cell phones.