Odd things in your local area

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I was hanging out at the bus stop the other week when I noticed something odd. In London the bus shelters will have a big map of the local area along with all the local bus routes shown. And beneath will be an index of street names and places of interest. The map will usually cover about a square mile if not less.

Now just to the south of the area I live in the guy who planned the streets did something nifty. A long arterial road was built with several streets coming off it all very close together and parallel to one another. And if you take the first letter of each of those streets you spell out the name of the planner's daughter. Very cute.

So I was idly perusing the bus map for want of anything better to do and I discovered no less than SIXTEEN streets which had what could be considered a first name. It's common to name streets after people but usually that is with their surname. Some of the names could be related to geographical or botanical features and while some areas do certainly have streets all named after kings or counties trees etc there was no common cluster.

So who the hell are Abbey, Devon, Dorothy, Fraser, Hazel, Jordan, Kathleen, Lee, Lily, May, Primrose, Stanley, Stanley, Stanley, Victor and Wendy?

And what odd things are going on in your local area?