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Line 207: :::: And on the same estate (digressing a bit), [[Tavistock Square]] and Tavistock Place after the [[Marquess of Tavistock]], the courtesy title of the eldest son of the Dukes of Bedford, [[Russell Square]], Great Russell Street and Little Russell Street from the Dukes' surname, and finally [[Woburn Square]] and Woburn Place after [[Woburn Abbey]], the Bedfords' family seat. [[User:Alansplodge\|Alansplodge]] ([[User talk:Alansplodge\|talk]]) 20:30, 13 March 2013 (UTC) Interestingly,a search through the good old net reveals a lot of cities that are planning to change similar sounding named streets because emergency services are getting confused-[http://datavaluetalk.com/data-quality/confusing-streetnames-ending-in-an-unfortunate-fatality/ in this tragic case] which either has three roads with the same name or one road in three bits in different parts of town .And apparently some Japanese cities have no real street naming,but just block numbers which wander about so meaninglessly that tourists are given advice to just call the person and have them come fetch you to whatever address you're headed off to. [[User:Lemon martini\|Lemon martini]] ([[User talk:Lemon martini\|talk]]) 17:40, 13 March 2013 (UTC) :My (otherwise unusual) street name is replicated exactly by another 2 miles away: confusing enough, but the property at the same number as mine is a busy clinic - so I get all sorts of visitors (in various degrees of panic and stress), mail (of various degrees of confidentiality), and fascinating courier deliveries -including a couple of attempted deliveries of some very large, very expensive equipment. It seems my location is the default one for any using sat nav - including firms & departments who should know better. [[User:Gwinva\|Gwinva]] ([[User talk:Gwinva\|talk]]) 21:41, 13 March 2013 (UTC) = March 13 =

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