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[BazaJT]

Sunday night I had a "Ooops" moment and hit buy it now on a flea bay item.Last night I travelled down to Lord Optis fiefdom[a place called Billinghay-just south of Lincoln]On setting off I programmed the sat nav but it didn't recognise the house number[24 in this case]and came up with 25 instead.Anyway reasoning that 24 and 25 shouldn't be too far apart off I went.Turned onto the correct road and found the odd numbers to my left evens to the right,4th house in was 25 which was opposite a grassed area and continued on to the houses on the right,these started at number 8 and ran 8 10 10A then two houses semi detached with no visible numbers on then next house was number 62 Saw a lady walking her dog and asked if she could direct me to number 24 which it turned out was next door to 10A Who the heck numbered the houses on this road

[Lincs Robert]

Sold my old kitchen to a farmer in Billinghay

[Sir Tigger KC]

Baza's just bought a farmers old kitchen in Billinghay!   

[Lincs Robert]

 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Its webbed feet and too many fingers territory. Oddly numbered houses are the least of the weirdness you will encounter. 

[scimmy_man]

Sunday night I had a "Ooops" moment and hit buy it now on a flea bay item.Last night I travelled down to Lord Optis fiefdom[a place called Billinghay-just south of Lincoln]On setting off I programmed the sat nav but it didn't recognise the house number[24 in this case]and came up with 25 instead.Anyway reasoning that 24 and 25 shouldn't be too far apart off I went.Turned onto the correct road and found the odd numbers to my left evens to the right,4th house in was 25 which was opposite a grassed area and continued on to the houses on the right,these started at number 8 and ran 8 10 10A then two houses semi detached with no visible numbers on then next house was number 62 Saw a lady walking her dog and asked if she could direct me to number 24 which it turned out was next door to 10A Who the heck numbered the houses on this road

I used to do naming and numbering as part of my job, usually you leave a few numbers if there is a gap in the houses where someone could build,
sometimes you leave 4 numbers and they build 20 houses, sometimes the other way.

[BazaJT]

  I haven't bought anyones[farmer or otherwise]old kitchen or new one for that matter That was the thing that got me about it scimmy-man-there was nowhere between the houses for others to be built nor from what I could tell was there room behind them to build more!

[Lincs Robert]

Bilinghay has one of the smallest Vauxhall dealerships in the country - as well as my old kitchen !

[ronnyd]

Mine originated from Twells at Billinghay.

[BazaJT]

The place didn't seem big enough to have a corner shop,let alone a car dealership It does have at least one pub though

[Mister Rog]

Strange numbering not so unusual.

My last house was No 52 but 51 and  53 were 200 metres down the road. Directly opposite were very low numbers

Current house, opposite is 13, 14, 15, my side is 1 - 12 and then 16, 17, 18 etc. We constantly get delivery couriers driving up and down looking for a specific house.

[TheBoy]

As any home service engineer technician will tell you, the normal rule of thumb for non cul-dec-sac roads is, with your back to the town/village centre, odds on left, evens on right.  This is how planners are supposed to do it.

Cul-de-sacs are the same, but rather than back to town/village centre, its from where it joins its road.  Although some Close's are sequential numbering.

If there are significant plots of land that have some viability for planning permission, gaps should be left, and some roads lack number 13.

[Rods2]

Sounds like you are getting into parts of the country where the dead straight Roman style roads were started by the rolling English drunk with a matching house naming, maybe even new fangled (could be Roman or Arabic numerals) numbering system.

You can easily pick out the local families that have lived there for 1000's of years where fall into two types. Those with one central eye and 6 fingers on each hand the others have three eyes and 8 fingers. I think that Opti chap is one of the latter.

[Doctor Gollum]

I haven't bought anyones[farmer or otherwise]old kitchen or new one for that matter That was the thing that got me about it scimmy-man-there was nowhere between the houses for others to be built nor from what I could tell was there room behind them to build more!

The numbering clearly tells you the space has been built on

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Its webbed feet and too many fingers territory. Oddly numbered houses are the least of the weirdness you will encounter. 

Nah.....you must be thinking of Norfolk or Yorkshire.

In Norfolk it is the law to marry your sister. People from 'proper Yorkshire' will only mate with other people from 'proper Yorkshire' so the gene pool becomes worryingly small. Same result either way.

As for people from Dorset.