Good job they didnt choose.........

The street of negotiable affections.

I am guessing many Reg Readers wouldnt mind living on the Street of Cunning Artificers :-)

Twinned with Ankh Morpork?

I've a feeling you may not want some of the livelier residents of that city on too many exchange visits!

Still a tie-up between the local colleges and Unseen University could have some interesting results...

Oook!

Ooook.

Coincidence, or ....

The ex-mayor is caller Winder! Well, that's a stronger Ankh-Morpork connection than a few street names! Either he's got a bloody good sense of humour or he's not read the books!

Someone should check whether these roads have the right cobblestones.

Should have called one...

Dagon Street. Then I could have gone and opened the "Three Jolly Luck Take Away Fish Bar" on the site of a former fish-god temple during the night of a full moon. Nothing could go wrong with that!

I just looked up treacle mining...

...on wikipedia

It mentions treacle mines in Maidstone, Kent.

Turns out that my mother wasn't mad when she told me about the Tovil treacle mines all those years ago :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacle_mining

As a Pratchett fan...

...I shall be looking forward to seeing the uprooted road signs on eBay the day after they're installed.

Re: Lancashire

It's Agnes, not Alice, Code Monkey, if we're going to be nice and accurate. :-)

It's all perfectly divine. Next is to rename whole districts. Dolly Sisters, anyone?

Re: photo

mitch> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7984118.stm

I liked Metro's better: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Terry_Pratchett_and_his_fantasy_streets&in_article_id=610846&in_page_id=34

well we in essex already had tracle mine roundabout

I love the discworld books ready them all and good omens too.

i second the call for a Dagon Street. just so i could have go watch watch what happened, but where are you going to find a street with a former fish god temple we can rename so you can build your fish bar on. (of ourse all the owner left behind was kdiney and a earlobe but i'm sure an igor can find a use for them )

I think the Agony Aunts, Sadie and Dotsie would fit right in in some regions of essex, infact they would probable bring the crime right down and i met lots of blokes who could be C.M.O.T dibbler of for that matter any of his relations on many a essex market. (my favourite is Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala) i could make some joke about essex Librarians at this point... but i'll just get my coat it's the one with the banana in the pocket

An objection from the Linguists Union

I hear the "Street of Cunning Artificers" was dropped because of objections from the Linguists' Union - something about "equal time".

Mine's the deep purple jacket....

not a discworld fan...

...but i cannot deny its wonderful mass appeal, and its a fantastic story i wouldnt mind some more crazy street names, diagon ally anyone?

there is a garden centre near ours called rivendell how the tolken estate missed that ill never know

But if you really hate the developers

I'd suggest feeding them "Perdido Street" and some others from that book, and hope that no-one spots the references until it's too late.

@Pete

Because Gandalf isn't unique to Tolkien, or even original with him. The name "Gandalf" was used by William Morris in "The Well at the World's End" in 1896. So, I doubt if the Tolkien estate could claim IPR on the name Gandalf without other LOTR associations.