ELi5 – How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered?

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ELi5 – How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered?

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Answer 1

For naming the roads, this can come down to the area and location. Say a housing estate is located in an area called Dunville, then the roads might be called ‘Dunville Walk’, ‘Dunville Way’ etc.

There are numerous other reasons for naming and the architects/designers of these developments would propose their names and the council/housing body would approve them.

For the numbering it has already been said. And there are no rules set in place for this and every road will have a unique arrangement, so the numbering system might be different for each one.