UK Street Numbering

[mgf]

See also this previous thread on much the same topic: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,614809.0.html

[a chesters]

Thanks to all of you for that information. That just makes it all the more difficult to find the house one is looking for.

At least, in these cases, the streets have not been renamed, as quite a few have been in Sydney City. There is an Excel worksheet which gives the old and the corresponding names

[stonechat]

Egham High St where a number of ancestors where starts and one end 1, 2, 3, ... wraps around at the end and ends up I guess at about 160's opposite 1

Also I live in riverside house and they are also sequential

[johncrowner]

Other moans about street numbering: Shops don't usually display their street number- I n our local High St. try finding the flat above no. 32b! House numbers are generally too far back to view from the road, particularly on a dark night . Many is the time that, as a taxi driver, I drove slowly down a strange street, turned at the end, and drove back again, vainly searching for number 24 or, worse still, Mon Repose or The Laurels( which had been cut down by a previous owner!) Why not insist on numbers and names being displayed clearly on the front gate? ( or numbered wheelie bins being left out!

[stonechat]

Other moans about street numbering: Shops don't usually display their street number- I n our local High St. try finding the flat above no. 32b! House numbers are generally too far back to view from the road, particularly on a dark night . Many is the time that, as a taxi driver, I drove slowly down a strange street, turned at the end, and drove back again, vainly searching for number 24 or, worse still, Mon Repose or The Laurels( which had been cut down by a previous owner!) Why not insist on numbers and names being displayed clearly on the front gate? ( or numbered wheelie bins being left out!

How true
Amd when they are numbered it is not always helpful
I had a letter from somone working on the location of my ancestor James Douglass's premises in Guildford St Chertsey

This number does not currently exist
The numbers higher exist IIRC there were three no 114's in the Street, and a 110
HOwever I did crack it.

[mike175]

I suspect the recent expansion of online shopping may prompt many more people to make sure their house numbers/names are more visible, to ensure they get their deliveries . . . 

[KGarrad]

Makes no difference!
My house is plainly numbered; but most online address forms don't allow enough space for a complete address (I live in Esplanade Mews, Esplanade Lane!).

Consequently we get phone calls from lost delivery drivers!
Usually lost on The Esplanade?!

[Suffolk Mawther]

and .... many developers leave out No. 13, so you will find 11 and then next door No. 15.

We moved late 2011, the small development built approx 12 years ago has the most bizarre numbering system.  All delivery drivers take pot luck and if no signature is required they drop and run.  I receive parcels for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 !  I live at one of the above. I have yet to find No 6 

Pat ...

[a chesters]

Thanks for all the information and insights.

I live in northern Sydney, and the council does not have a No 13 anywhere in its area

As for some deliver drivers, we had a delivery once, where the driver was completely lost. He thought that as our suburb started with Mount, we were up the Blue Mountains