Road names "too fanciful"
2:58pm Tuesday 19th August 2008
PROPOSED street names for a new Thirsk development have been labelled too fancy and liable to cause confusion.
Hambleton District Council put forward four names for streets on a development being built off Norby Front Street.
The land being used is the site of North Yorkshire County Council’s former highways depot in Thirsk.
The names the district council suggested were De Stutevill Drive, Mowbray Way, De Braose Lane and Daubury Close.
The ideas stem from the names of former lords of the Thirsk area but Thirsk Town Council called them too fanciful.
Members felt the names would prove too much of a mouthful and simpler ones were needed for the land.
Instead they said two roads could be Sunny Way and Shaws Close - after former buildings on the site.
They suggested the other two roads could be Gallows Lane, as Thirsk’s gallows stood nearby, and Percy Drive after a former lord hung nearby.
The alternative suggestions have been sent to the district council for it to study.
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