Slowly
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Road names dreamt up by developers or councillors may reflect the then-current political climate (Trafalgar Square. Victoria Place, Mandela Avenue) or heroes of the time... though they may fall out of favour (Rhodes, Saville etc). At other times they remember people or perhaps the now-vanished land on which the estate was build (Westfield, Orchard, Vicarage, Tyning, Glebe... and so on).
Today I wondered if one could generate a complete list of roads with UK freshwater fish names starting with the same letter and quickly came up with about ten. but even resorting to lists of freshwater fish on the internet (discovering some very rare species only found in a few lakes, relics of the Ice Age) I couldn't complete the list. There are questions as to whether migratory fish which only spawn in freshwater, or alien fish now naturalised here should be allowed, and whether the proper Latin names (easier) or dialect names are OK plus things like Jack and Pike, which are the same thing. Without them I don't think it is possible, even if it is with... and there are not, I think, an A-Z of types of road.
Here is my list. Any OCD SM fisherfolk who can fill in the gaps... oh, and I counted up how many of those I have caught in my time.. (20)
Atlantic Salmon Avenue
Bream / Brown Trout / Bleak / Barbel / Bullhead / [Bitterling] Boulevard / Bypass
Chub / Carp / Char / Crucian Close / Crescent
Dace Drive
Eel End / Estate
Flounder Fields
Gudgeon / Grayling / (?Goldfish, Golden Orfe, Grass Carp) Grove
H*** Highway
I
Jack pike Junction
K
Lamprey / Loach Lane / Leas
Minnow / Miller's thumb [Mullet] Mews / Mead
N
Orfe Oval
Pike / Pope / Pollan / Powan Place
Q
Roach / Rudd / Ruffe / Rainbow Trout Road
Stickleback / Sturgeon / Sunfish / Smelt Street / Square
Tench Terrace
U
Vendace Vale
W*** Way
X
Y
Zander [Z-bend... surely no-one lives on "Z bend"].
Today I wondered if one could generate a complete list of roads with UK freshwater fish names starting with the same letter and quickly came up with about ten. but even resorting to lists of freshwater fish on the internet (discovering some very rare species only found in a few lakes, relics of the Ice Age) I couldn't complete the list. There are questions as to whether migratory fish which only spawn in freshwater, or alien fish now naturalised here should be allowed, and whether the proper Latin names (easier) or dialect names are OK plus things like Jack and Pike, which are the same thing. Without them I don't think it is possible, even if it is with... and there are not, I think, an A-Z of types of road.
Here is my list. Any OCD SM fisherfolk who can fill in the gaps... oh, and I counted up how many of those I have caught in my time.. (20)
Atlantic Salmon Avenue
Bream / Brown Trout / Bleak / Barbel / Bullhead / [Bitterling] Boulevard / Bypass
Chub / Carp / Char / Crucian Close / Crescent
Dace Drive
Eel End / Estate
Flounder Fields
Gudgeon / Grayling / (?Goldfish, Golden Orfe, Grass Carp) Grove
H*** Highway
I
Jack pike Junction
K
Lamprey / Loach Lane / Leas
Minnow / Miller's thumb [Mullet] Mews / Mead
N
Orfe Oval
Pike / Pope / Pollan / Powan Place
Q
Roach / Rudd / Ruffe / Rainbow Trout Road
Stickleback / Sturgeon / Sunfish / Smelt Street / Square
Tench Terrace
U
Vendace Vale
W*** Way
X
Y
Zander [Z-bend... surely no-one lives on "Z bend"].