Title: Street or road name
Content: best-known example is in York. The unusual etymologies of quite a few street names in the United Kingdom are documented in "Rude Britain", complete with photographs of local signage. In the past, many streets were named for the type of commerce or industry found there. This rarely happens in modern times, but many such older names are still common. Examples are London's Haymarket; Barcelona's Carrer de Moles (Millstone Street), where the stonecutters used to have their shops; and Cannery Row in Monterey, California. Some streets are named for landmarks that were in the street, or nearby, when it was built.

Title: Street or road name
Content: upper/lower, old/new, or adding "extension". "Main Street" and "High Street" are common names for the major street in the middle of a shopping area in the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively. The most common street name in the US is "2nd" or "Second". The etymology of a street name is sometimes very obvious, but at other times it might be obscure or even forgotten. In the United States, most streets are named after numbers, landscapes, trees (a combination of trees and landscapes such as "Oakhill" is used often in residential areas), or the surname of an important individual

Title: Narborough Road
Content: selected to be studied by the project: Rookery Road in Birmingham, Stapleton Road in Bristol, Cheetham Hill in Manchester, and Narborough Road. These four streets were selected for their ethnic diversity and their deprived urban locale. After surveying a sample of shopkeepers from each of the four streets, the project concluded that Narborough Road's 108 surveyed proprietors came from a total of 22 countries of birth, over four continents. The street was thus named the most diverse in the UK. The sampled shopkeepers observed that the ethnic make-up of the street had changed quickly. Tajinder Reehal, a Kenyan-born owner of

Title: Wimbledon, London
Content: statistics for the town as a whole. The largest ethnic groups (up to 10%) in the wards according to the 2011 census are: Locals, newsagents, tradesman and Estate Agents refer to certain streets informally after their "street name" themes: "The Battles" consist of Hamilton Road, Hardy Road, Nelson Road, Victory Road and Trafalgar Road. "The Ministers" of a grid of roads named after ministers and prime ministers (for example, Pelham, Palmerston, Southey, Montague, Russell, Gladstone, Balfour and Griffiths Roads), and "The Poets" of six streets named after literary figures – Wilfred Owen Close, Tennyson Road, Caxton Road, Dryden Road, Milton

Title: Streets and squares in Dublin
Content: note, places in London, occupations, and titles of office. A few are named for the physical characteristics of the street of the surrounding area and a few are corruptions of previous names. Street names are modified with a number of terms. Generally, larger thoroughfare names include avenue, parade, road, and street. Smaller street names include alley, close, court, lane, mews, place, row, and terrace. Special locations or layouts include cottages, gardens, grove, hill, market, park, quay, square, villas, and yard and some these terms tend to be used more outside of the city centre. Dublin streets are signed in the

Question: What is the most common street name in the UK?
Answer: High Street