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• Hampstead
  [[File:Ford Madox Brown - Work - artchive.com.jpg|right|thumb|200px| Ford Madox Brown]]'s painting ''Work'' (1865)]] ...jpg|right|thumb|200px|The artist's location today, on The Mount, off Heath Street]]
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• Burslem
  | picture= Brickhouse Street, Burslem - geograph.org.uk - 90878.jpg | picture caption = Brickhouse Street, Burslem
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• Athlone
  | picture =Main Street, Athlone - geograph-3758239-by-P-L-Chadwick.jpg | picture caption =Main Street, Athlone
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• Stratford-upon-Avon
  ...'strætford'' simply meaning "street-ford", referring to a ford carrying a street across the river, presumably the Avon. ===Henley Street===
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• Hampton-in-Arden
  |picture=The High Street Hampton in Arden.JPG |picture caption=Hampton in Arden, High Street
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• Knutsford
  |picture caption=King Street ...Bottom Street), form the "hub" of the town. At one end of the narrow King Street is an entrance to Tatton Park. The Tatton estate was home to the Egerton fa
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• Stockport
  ...Mersey, which forms the boundary, has been culverted and the main shopping street, ''Merseyway'', built above it. ...LS Lowry. Lowry often visited the Stockport War Memorial Gallery on Greek Street especially during the annual exhibition of paintings and sculpture.<ref>[ht
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• Redruth
  |picture caption= Fore Street, Redruth town centre ...ety.]</ref> is housed in the Town Council office at the bottom of the main street.
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• Penrith
  ...the ford" (equivalent to the Welsh ''Penrhyd''), presumably referring to a ford on the Eamont, and others "red head (hill)" (Welsh ''Penrhudd''), referring ...Penrith Methodist Church [http://www.penrithmethodist.co.uk] - Wordsworth Street
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• Godmanchester
  |picture=Godmanchester Post Street.jpg |picture caption=Post Street in Godmanchester
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• Derby
  The newer buildings along Ford Street and St Alkmund's Way include the Friargate Studios, The Joseph Wright Centr ...e in their names, such as Irongate and Friargate; "Gate" being Danish for "street", not "gate".
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• Ulverston
  |picture=Market Street, Ulverston.jpg |picture caption=Market Street, Ulverston
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• Newport Pagnell
  |picture=The High Street, Newport Pagnell - geograph.org.uk - 368877.jpg |picture caption=The High Street, Newport Pagnell
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• Sunderland
  ===Alphabetical street naming of suburbs=== ..., Sunderland suburbs have most streets systematically named such that each street in an area will begin with the same letter:
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• Haverfordwest
  The name of the town means "heifer ford" from Old English ''hæfar'' ("heifer").<ref>Charles, B. G, ''The Placename [[File:Haverfordwest Quay Street.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Quay Street]]
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• Chelmsford
  ...commuters live in Chelmsford and take the daily train journey to Liverpool Street Station in London to work in the City of London financial sector, though Ch ...ved from 'Ceolmaer's ford' which was close to the site of the present High Street stone bridge. In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 the town was called 'Celmere
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• Stratford, Essex
  ...s to the west of Broadway; much beyond the Broadway it is no longer a high street as such but the long dual carriageway of the A11 fronted by housing, some b The main road, the A11 out of London, is formed by the High Street before being thrown into a ring road around the town centre, Broadway carry
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• Watford
  ...originally a pre-Roman trackway, departed from the ancient Roman [[Watling Street]] at [[Stanmore]], heading for the [[River Gade|Gade]] valley and thence up The modern High Street follows the route of this road, as does the A41.<ref name="Lewis">{{cite bo
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• Hertford
  ...tford''), and means no more nor less than it says to the modern ear: "hart ford". ...r-framed buildings hidden under later frontages, particularly in St Andrew Street. Hertford suffers from traffic problems despite the building in the 1960s o
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• Bridgend
  Bridgend itself developed at a ford on the [[River Ogmore]], which was on the main route between east and west ...treatment works near [[Ogmore]]. Two major multinational corporations, the Ford Motor Company and Sony set factories up in, or on the outskirts of the new
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• Southampton
  ...igh treason and tried at what is now the Red Lion public house in the High Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/features/hants_facts/2 }}</ref> The area of Swaythling is home to Ford's Southampton Assembly Plant, where the majority of their Transit models ar
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• Basingstoke
  ...was May's Brewery, established by Thomas and William May in 1750 in Brook Street. ...:London Road, Basingstoke - geograph.org.uk - 22428.jpg|thumb|right|London Street with its mixed architecture]]
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• Hereford
  ...d" is said to come from the Old English "here ford" ("army ford"), and the ford certainly refers to a crossing of the [[River Wye]]. The Welsh name ''Henf ...Church Street.jpg|upright|thumb|left|200px|Hereford Cathedral, from Church Street]]
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• Lavenham
  |picture=Historic houses on Water Street - geograph.org.uk - 1598333.jpg |picture caption=Water Street, Lavenham
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• Deptford
  |picture caption=Deptford High Street ...], long since swallowed within the London conurbation. It is named after a ford of the [[River Ravensbourne]]. Part of the town spills over too into [[Sur
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• Harlech
  ...of the town is the high town by the castle. Here are the narrow shopping street, church, and castle. Houses have since grown up the hillside and since the ...nown in the early Welsh tradition as "The Assembly of the Noble Head."<ref>Ford, Patrick K. ''The Mabinogi and other Mediæval Welsh Tales''. Berkeley: U o
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• Guildford
  |picture caption=Town Hall clock, High Street [[File:Guildford high street 1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Guildford High Street]]
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• River Ver
  ...stead]], [[Redbourn]], [[St Albans]] and [[Park Street, Hertfordshire|Park Street]], and joins the [[River Colne, Hertfordshire|River Colne]] at [[Bricket Wo The bridge in St Michael's Street, adjacent to Kingsbury Mill, dates from 1765 and is believed to be the olde
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• Preston
  ...st's Town refers to a priory set up by St Wilfrid near the Ribble's lowest ford. This idea is supported by the similarity of the Paschal lamb on Preston's ...d troops corralled the demonstrators in front of the Corn Exchange on Lune Street. Shots were fired and four of the demonstrators were killed. A commemorat
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• Stamford
  |picture=High Street St Martin's, Stamford.jpg [[File:Broad Street - geograph.org.uk - 616752.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Broad Street]]
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• Newtown, Montgomeryshire
  ...entre for the hamlet of Llanfair-yng-Nghedewain. It was situated near the ford on the [[River Severn]], below the Long Bridge and around the church of St ...rt Owen was erected in 1956 in a small park off Shortbridge Street and Gas street. A replica statue was later built in [[Manchester]].
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• Botley, Berkshire
  ...ref>Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 333</ref> It is still owned by Hartwell Ford. ...ord.<ref>Hanson, 1995, page 26</ref> The name Old Botley is preserved in a street set back from the main road. The major development which began in the 1930s
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• Dublin
  ...ituated in the area of Aungier Street currently occupied by the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church. ..."Messiah" was performed for the first time in New Musick Hall in Fishamble Street with 26 boys and five men from the combined choirs of St Patrick's and Chri
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• Leatherhead
  |picture caption=Bridge Street, Leatherhead ...Welsh origin to the name cognate to ''Llwyd-rhyd'', proposed to mean "grey ford" (in defiance of Welsh word-order.<ref>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/
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• South Moreton
  ...not a shop nor village hall. There are a few large old houses on the High Street, some newer houses at the east of the village, modern social housing to the The Crown public house, on High Street, was the last to be rebuilt by Wadworth of [[Devizes]] before the enactment
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• Morpeth
  ...irteenth century a stone bridge was built over the Wansbeck, replacing the ford previously in use.<ref name="keys"/> ...isturbed by a garrison of Italian mercenaries, who 'pestered such a little street standing in the highway' by killing deer and withholding payment for food.<
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• River Devon, Nottinghamshire
  ...HLE|1075096}} Fleming's Bridge, Bottesford</ref> At Devon Lane, there is a ford, besides which stands a single-arched brick bridge, with two holes passing
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• Retford
  ...e Towns Name] </ref> The first land settled was on the western side of the ford &ndash; as this area being less liable to flooding &ndash; but as the commu **Grove Street Methodist Church
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• Crieff
  ...Gallowhaugh - now Gallowhill, at the bottom of Burrell Street. What is now Ford Road was Gallowford Road which led down past the gallows to the crossing po ...tel in Hill Street. He also had his horse shod in the blacksmith's in King Street. Later in the month he reviewed his troops in front of Ferntower House, on
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• Hungerford
  ...rford or Town, Sanden Fee, Eddington with Hidden, and Newtown and Charnham Street. Hungerford Town and Eddington lie in Berkshire, with the remainder in [[Wi Hungerford is an Old English name meaning 'Hanging Wood Ford'. The town's symbol is the six-pointed star and crescent moon.
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• Blackburn
  ...e area of Revidge to the north can be reached by a steep climb up Montague Street and Dukes Brow to reach a peak of 715 feet above sea level. ...strial revolution and runs underground in the town centre, under Ainsworth Street and between Blackburn's Roman Catholic Cathedral and Bus Station. On the we
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• Glastonbury
  ...A mile away across the [[River Brue]] is the village of [[Street, Somerset|Street]]. At the edge of the town and dominating landscape for many miles around [[File:Glastonbury High street.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The High Street]]
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• Bridge of Allan
  A hog's back, narrow, stone bridge was built to replace the old ford across the River Allan, in 1520. It rose sharply from the riverbank and dip ...s with pleasure grounds in the woods. He also erected a fountain in Market Street. It was at this time that many handsome stone villas were built on wide tho
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• Cork
  [[File:Patrick Street Cork2.jpg|left|thumb|Patrick Street c.1890–1900.]] ...nd local Irish<ref>Mass noticeboard, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Paul Street, Cork</ref> and of course English.
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• Worcester
  ...bank of the River Severn in around 400 BC. The position, which commanded a ford on the river, was used in the first century by the Romans to establish what ...:Tudor Buildings Friar Street Worcester.JPG|thumb|Tudor buildings in Friar Street]]
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• River Leader
  ...ere there had been a Roman fort and garrison, and entered Lauderdale. Dere Street is said to have been reconditioned by King Malcolm III and was probably use
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• Wendover
  ...the centre of the town, which was built in 1842. The tree lined Aylesbury Street includes the 16th-century timber framed Chiltern House and 18th-century Red ...own as Anne Boleyn's Cottages. The town is the birthplace of Gordon Onslow Ford, British surrealist artist, and it is believed to be the birthplace of the
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• Fenny Stratford
  ...onal Ground and the Fenny Allotments from the west, the Rail line, Watling street and Denbigh East from the north, [[Water Eaton Brook]] by the south and the ...hy ford on a street (Roman road)'. The road in this case is the [[Watling Street]], the old Roman road from [[London|Londinium]].
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• Bradford
  The name Bradford is from the Old English ''brad ford''; "broad ford". This referred to a crossing of the Bradford Beck at Church Bank, below t ...homas Cook, Bradford.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Thomas Cook Head Office, Godwin Street]]
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• Wakefield
  ...se ''gata'' meaning road;<ref>{{Harvnb|Mills|1998|p=403}}</ref> a frequent street name in towns where the Norse dwelt. ...d in the streets around the Bull Ring and the cattle market between George Street and Ings Road grew to be one of the biggest in the country.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ta
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