Sheep Street numbering

Tue 31 Dec 2024, 16:54 (last edited on Tue 31 Dec 2024, 17:03)

I agree Angus.  Charlbury may be a "Town" but its house numbering is, mainly in the centre, that of a quaint village.  It's confusing, with many houses not having numbers at all, but just names.  Ok for a village, but not a town.

Here at the sharp end, I'm accosted several times a month, by cyclists, and delivery drivers who have no idea where their destination is.  Often neither do I.  Perhaps the use of "What 3 Words" should be compulsory for Charlbury.

I've sometimes thought that I could make a living out of guiding and directing the hapless.  A fiver each would make me a rich man.

Tue 31 Dec 2024, 00:35

In parts of Japan houses are numbered according to the order in which they were built.   

Mon 30 Dec 2024, 23:35

Can anyone explain the apparently illogical house numbering in Sheep Street?

Walking from Hixet Wood, I read that the building on the corner of Bayliss Yard and Sheep Street is no 11; next door is numbered 9. That seems ok (except that the norm in England is for odd numbers to increase from 1 on the left, and these are on the right). The next number visible on a property is 37, on the corner of the old bakery yard, and, next door to that, Four Shires Kitchens, is 39. So the numbers decrease from 11 to 9, then, farther on going the same way, increase from 37 to 39. In addition, there seem to be not enough buildings to warrant the jump from 9 to 37!