Street Names in my Town

North-East_Quine

I am a volunteer for my local church. We need to find out the names of every street in our town which is growing quite fast.

Can anyone suggest an easy way of finding out all the street names without having to physically walk round the town (population 15,000)

Would the Post Office provide this information? I suspect they will charge for it. Or is there a website that might give me the street names?

xocbc

Try the local council, they will have a gazetteer and it might be easy for them to do a export of street names from it. Whether or not they will give it to you is a different matter altogether!

MX5huggy

Well, I would start by printing out maps from google maps and crossing them off one by one.

Why do you need to know every street name?

North-East_Quine

We deliver a magazine to every household in the town, but can't keep up with the names of the new streets. If we know the street names it will help us to get volunteers to deliver. The magazine is an important part of welcoming people who may be new and alone.

I just wondered if anyone could think of a way to get a list from the internet. Google maps are not up to date.

DaveF327

Try your local A to Z. The index is of all the streets. If the area covered is larger than the area you want, just narrow down the index by postcode.

North-East_Quine

Do I need to register on A-Z? I can't seem to get an index of streets to come up?

dieselhead

I would suggest buying a copy of your local A - Z they only cost a few pounds and they will have a list of all the streets in the city in alphabetical order.

DaveF327

dieselhead wrote: »

I would suggest buying a copy of your local A - Z they only cost a few pounds and they will have a list of all the streets in the city in alphabetical order.

Yes, that's what I meant. The website itself doesn't list any streets or contain online maps; it's just the place where you can order any A-Z map of any area.

Regarding google maps not being up to date, I'm afraid you'll find that with any source you come across. No database is future-proof; you can only get hold of the latest edition you can, then keep checking for newer editions.

dzug1

The postcode directory will do this. Your local library or post office will have a copy, though it may not be 100% up to date. (If you want a copy to keep you'll have to buy it - it still won't be up to date)