Rural and/or big house/country estate dwellers - do you have a road name? ...

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

because our Council has just imposed a road name on us (signs too) and I don't like it. We might get unwanted visitors if we have a proper address

Also, I am lazy, not to mention poncey, and rather like having a 3-line address.

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Shock horror Norks! Am lol at the thought of you stumbling across the upstart road sign this morning.
Is a filthy practice - you must resist - write to the council telling them you've heard hint of foreign invasion?

rural, small house- do I count?

Yes I like having a house name and no road name, but do find it an irritation to fill in some forms on the internet which require a street name, as they often won't accept the form if the line is blank.

If I type "Noname" or "Nostreet" on the form, it usually turns up on the address label!

On the other hand, tradesmen (well you know, delivery boys and such like) often have to phone for directions becasue they get lost and can't find us on a map, and when dd had croup and I thought she was choking to death infront of me, it took the ambulance 40 mins to get to us. Just as well she wasn't dying!

Ah so there is some use to the road sign afterall Norks, like tissy says. Is a shame to give up your three line address though, is deeply poncy and glam, a bit like writing to The Queen, Buckingham Palace, London or Father Christmas, North Pole.

Does that 3-line address include the postcode, Duchess? I came across one like that the other day:

house name
county
post code

It was rural Northants, I gathered nobody lives there much. She was vv posh )

Father Christmas has a 2 line address. Now that is ever so smart and select

There is a shiny civic sign opposite the end of my drive - like I need to know what my road has been called. I think the Council have done it to piss me off.

my road name is in the name of the cottage so we dont have to put it on the address:

Enids Rest Cottage
Enidville
Dorset

my gran's lane has no name and she gets very uppity if anyone dares call her lane by the name of the next lane up, which does have a name.

We use the house, hamlet, county and the postcode when I can remember what it is. Not as grand as your Northants lady - it wasn't Boughton was it?

I live at number x ara kotinga, (rd1) rural delivery y, new zealand. and the post always gets here. DH's friend's post goes to Lance x RD1 Gordonton, NZ and that gets there too!!

People always want a road name though and add road after the ara kotinga - how annoying

Get famous baby. My mail is sent to David Gest, London. And it arrives by the sack load. Ka-chow! Do I get an admiring glance too?

we have a road name but the council don't use it, often get post addressed to 12 council houses. how the postman knows which of the 2 roads of council houses to choose i have no idea

The brother of a friend once had a letter arrive successfully that was addressed simply to

Firstname Lastname The Big White House Iceland

which I was rather impressed by.

of course you could always use

house no.
postcode

and you mail would get to you

( those of you with house numbers, that is)

My address was once Blea Tarn house and the next line of the address was a town 7 miles away.

We live on a no-name road.

Being fairly pocey I quite like it .

Our house has a name and no number, but often when filling in forms it won't accept just a house name so I have to stick the number 1 infront of the house name.

we dont have a road name either, and I like it that way, although i admit, it makes address on internet forms a little difficult.

I like being a little bit remote and hidden, but agree I always have to explain to any tradesman/visitors which is a pain

Duchess - we have house name and hamlet. like you, but also irritating back drive which Post Office have attached name and code to, so giving address on telephone to anyone with bloody computer mail prgram is maddening!!!! If I want to be found I send a map. My advice is declare independence - Cornwall has, if BBC Breakfast is to be believed
Do what Corsicans do, and pepper the sign with bullet holes first......and anyway, surely the postman is a tenant, so he must know who and where you are already?

Our address is
Mumble House
(village)
Near (town)
(post code)

same here, sometimes people assume mumble house is a block of flats & insist on a number. They're just dozy, some of these people

I've shot at the sign with a variety of weapons. Regretfully I don't have cannon.

But I do have a few 4x4s to choose from

Glad to know that not everyone in the country has been given a name & number. I don't think it's healthy for a nation to be completely homogenised.

Bollocks! I forgot to name change!

move to rural Ireland. My friend's address is her name, nearest small town (seven miles away), the county.

I don't see why, with post codes and multi map and satnav, we need more than house name/number and post code, as the always brilliant iota suggests. Quite a few houses I have come across have their own postcode and shouldn't need to give any more than that! Shall we start a postal revolution?

(There is a small estate up the road from me with three streets called Thing Road, Thing Crescent and Thing Avenue and that's far more confusing than just having house name and post code. It's madness I tell you.)

Dh's parent's hamlet has Upper Road, Lower Road and Middle Road. In flash of inspiration, the only other street is called Station Road.

Good friends just have house and village name. House is enormous though (20 beds, swimming pool etc.).