Street Name Signs - where are they?

Does Every street in the UK has a name ? 
If yes .. Where I can find them ? 

So why aren't the signs that tell you the name of the road and street put in a position where you can actually see them from the adjoining road?

Kal

Sometimes you have to hunt for them. They might be on the side of a building in some places. Good luck!

Turns out Bono wasn't singing about Joshua Tree after all. 

Turns out Bono wasn't singing about Joshua Tree after all. 

Hee Hee 


They're usually on low walls around here. I keep looking up because that's where they are in the US.  Sometimes but rarely they're high up on the side of buildings. Oh and usually only at the beginning of the street.  If it's a street w/ loads of roads off of it and you didn't get onto the road at the beginning you're pretty much screwed!!  It's very frustrating!! 

lack of street signs on posts was literally one of the first things I noticed when I came to the UK for the first time in 2005. I remember I was taking a walk from my B&B and got a little lost...I had to hunt for the street signs to find my way back (like Lindyloo said, either way high up on a building or on a little stand low to the ground) and some intersections had no signage at all!  It's just another one of those British things I've had to get used to... 

A lot of roads in rural areas have no names posted on them at all -- You just have to know! 

I'd lived where I am now for several years before somebody mentioned a Stepping Stone Lane.    I'd never heard of it, but it turned out to be a road that I'd been using as a cut-through to get to the main highway ever since I first moved here.

 During WW2 they removed all the road signs. So, as not to help any spy's, invading force's to find their way about. They just never got around to replacing them since. The one thing that I hate is not knowing what way your going, East or West on any given road. Till you reach a town and realise you just drove 50 miles in the wrong direction. So buy a compass if driving back contry roads, it will save you alot of petrol.

                                                               Joe

They just never got around to replacing them since.

   

What can be really infuriating is when you follow the little signs on tiny rural backroads and think you're doing fine.  Then you arrive at a four-way intersection which has no sign and you just have to guess.   

The one thing that I hate is not knowing what way your going, East or West on any given road.

That's definitely one thing I like about American signage.  You hit a road and there's "Hwy. 19 North" or "Hwy. 19 South" so you know you're headed the right general direction. 

Over here, you just have to know that Upper Whatchamacallit is west of Lower Thingamajig.

Oh and usually only at the beginning of the street.  If it's a street w/ loads of roads off of it and you didn't get onto the road at the beginning you're pretty much screwed!!  It's very frustrating!! 

So very true.

As I typically ride passenger in the car, it's my job to desparately hunt for the street signs as we drive down the road, so that I can tell my husband when we've passed the road we're looking for so that he can make a U-Turn.

Even when names do appear at junctions along a route, they're not always consistent.

There's a road in north London which appears as "Wagon Road" on some signs and "Waggon Road" on others  -- Or at least it did in the 1970s, no idea about today.

(It runs from the bottom of Stagg Hill across the side of Hadley Wood and over to Wrotham Park for those familiar with the area.)

Edit:

Just located it on an online map out of curiosity:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=526250&y=198750.....

I guess it might be down to Enfield deciding on a different official spelling from Hertfordshire.  I think I've just partially cleared up something which I've wondered about since I was about 10 years old! 

Even when names do appear at junctions along a route, they're not always consistent.

There's a road in north London which appears as "Wagon Road" on some signs and "Waggon Road" on others  -- Or at least it did in the 1970s, no idea about today.

In Massachusetts, some city and town names aren't consistent either...Marlborough/Marlboro, Middleborough/Middleboro...You see signs with both.

I thought it was strange not to see many street signs when I was there, I thought i was just being blind, I guess not!

In Massachusetts, some city and town names aren't consistent either...Marlborough/Marlboro, Middleborough/Middleboro...You see signs with both.

My old road in Rhode Island was signposted 'Tenth St.' at one end, and '10th St.' at the other. It shouldn't have been a big deal, but created no end of problems for me, especially when it didn't match exactly what a computer had on file as my address.

Another thing to watch is that in some towns and villages you can find the same name used twice (or even more) with a different suffix.  For example, in a small town near to me there is both a Moor Road and a Moor Lane, several hundred yards apart.

In Massachusetts, some city and town names aren't consistent either...Marlborough/Marlboro, Middleborough/Middleboro...You see signs with both.

I thought it was strange not to see many street signs when I was there, I thought i was just being blind, I guess not!

where in Mass are you from??

My old road in Rhode Island was signposted 'Tenth St.' at one end, and '10th St.' at the other. It shouldn't have been a big deal, but created no end of problems for me, especially when it didn't match exactly what a computer had on file as my address.

Where in RI are you from??

Where in RI are you from??

I'm not originally from Rhode Island, but I went to university there and stayed on in Providence until I moved here in 2003.