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.

DH's Irish relative's address is

Mr Name
Village
County

that's it, not even a house name, let alone a street.

Okay so Norks, this is the million dollar question - is your house big enough, poncy enough, grand enough to RESIST the Road Name?

100x - maybe, we're big local employers etc BUT there are a lot of annoying little fuckers who work for the Council plus they will have already invested taxpayers money in this scheme (ours isn't the only road in the county to suddenly get a name) and I wouldn't want to be known as the 'DuchessOfRoadNameTantrumWastesEveryonesMoney'. Doesn't have the same ring to it.

I'm not using in my address though.

Hurrah for you. All done.

Yes, what's the reason for having to put the whole address and postcode? Surely you only really need one or the other?

My address used to be
My name
House Name
Double-Barrel Rd
Double-Barrel (village)
Town
Postcode

... by the time people had finished writing all that, their arm had dropped off and and they'd run out of envelope.

House name plus postcode should have been enough to identify me surely?

LOL @ double barrel address. Sounds exhausting Wellie, at least you don't have to write it all that often. Do you still get Christmas cards?

Now if you could persuade them to do that Norks?

No wonder I never got any letters

Have a much shorter address now, but not as chocolate-boxy. Number Village Rd, Village, Town.

Now they want us to have a postcode!

Should have clarified that we live in NZ now. They were managing perfectly well without postcodes here, and suddenly now the post office is sending us veiled threats about what will happen if we don't use our shiny new postcode.

(Well, actually they've had postcodes for ages but no-one bothered with them. I like NZ.)

Do you have a road sign, though?

There is a road sign but it's several miles away and on the other side of a large hill so it doesn't spoil the view much.

Sorry, duchess, not much use to you I'm afraid..

No, just our house name, village name and 3rd line address would be the nearest big town. Hope you get it sorted out.

Not posh by the way. House is big and rural but is being renovated so looks like a building site.

our rural house does have a road name... except that the post office and the one actual sign on the road differ in opinion as to what it is. we simply dont exist on any sat-nav system ive ever used.
i like the idea of ditching great swathes of irrelevent address... like the nearest town name and county for eg.
house name, road name, village name, postcode should be more than enough...
love it...

our house in bossy village has a street name - never really thought about it being wrong TBH
Duchess does this mean that the road has been adopted by the council?

Just a thought if you had to phone 999 how would you direct them to your house?

I am not saying have a road name, just wondering if any of you have had a problem, my street name doesn't show on street maps its kind of on another road, postie finds us OK but pizza delivery man had problems, as the shop didn't pass on the "on suchandsuch road" bit.

I wonder if emergency services would have the same problem, perhaps I should give my OS grid reference

DD's best friend has an address like that

Blah Hall
Blah
County

It was scary when I first had to find it, relying on directions, instead of being able to find it on a map first.

This house is not far from us, visible as we travel to Derby. I don't think it's for sale any longer but its address is quite long, even if it doesn't have a road. It'll be the 'Park' bit that screws it

I once had to call the AA when I broke down in the un-named lane behind Double Barrel village. It was a nightmare.

I was saying "You drive east along Double Barrel Rd from X bridge, and turn left at the Whatever Inn pub. Drive on for 3/4 of a mile and you will see me."

This unfortunately caused the helpline person's brain to explode as she just wanted a road name to plug into her computer.

It was a loooong time before the AA arrived.

LOL sobernow, a friend of mine has a cottage in Staithes and you're right!
However, I often receive post with the house name, area and postcode and it still gets here - quite amazing by Royal Mail standards

The place where we're moving is on a named road, but it has no number. The house has only a name.

My gran's address is:

House name (v little house though)
Hamlet (actually the name of little group of ruined stone crofts up the hill which haven't been occupied in 150 years)
Place 10 miles away
By Place 15 miles away
Argyll

Not really sure how the "by" bit helps really. There are no signs anywhere to tell you where you are.

nope.
we don't have a road name (and never will - the road/track isn't adopted by the LA and only used by 2 farms and us). our village road, which our track is off doesn't have a road name either. In fact you have to drive a mile out of the village onto the main road to the local (small) town before you get a road name.

I think we are safe!

My Gran had a lovely, bonkers, poncey 3-line address. Letters were sent to
House name
Town
County

but she actually lived at
House name
Hamlet
Next-door County