louisa_ :)TIL there's an area of Shrewsbury with the same name as our house - and the adjacent area has the same name as our next door neighbours' house. Fun coincidence!
Pete@pete nope! I don't want to completely dox myself but they're the other side of the town from Belle Vue by the looks of it.
(There's a possibility the area names are an estate agent invention as they're not showing up on Google Maps.)
@louisa_ No, please don't!
Estate agent's geography is great. I knew of someone who lived on a corner plot and built a new front door on the side of their house simply to fall into an estate agent's catchment of the adjacent and perceived as grander area.
Estate agent's geography is great. I knew of someone who lived on a corner plot and built a new front door on the side of their house simply to fall into an estate agent's catchment of the adjacent and perceived as grander area.
@pete hah, that's great. Conversely, in our last house, we lived juuuuuust over the border from a very desirable place part of Leeds - the border was the stream at the bottom of our garden. We liked how much money it saved us being on the "wrong" side of the border - easily 50k.
●@louisa_ Do houses get named when they're built and/or do successive residents rename them when they move in?
@fembot we live in old farmhouses and the names have been in place since at least the 1830s (ie on the oldest maps that I can find). Our current house dates from a little later than that (1870s, when it was built as two small cottages) but there's been barns on the site since at least 1616 so presumably there was an earlier house/s here too - not sure what it was called at that point though.