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Bucksboy said "houses mostly back to back", In my experience I have only seen back to back housing ie sharing a rear wall in Yorkshire, Widnes is mostly terraced housing.
The strict definition of back-to-back houses is that they share a rear wall, like algieshing says. However, in recent years the term has generally been used to describe terraced houses with their backs facing each other but separated by an alleyway. There were many of these in my home town of Warrington and in many other northern towns, including Widnes I believe.
Jim
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