Re: Fascinating theory, Bingley. Do you have any firsthand citations we could take a look at? The longer I live the curioser and curioser the world becomes
i know map makers (cartographer's!) do that... my old address, one Beechknoll Avenue in Queens, was one that was shorter, longer, bent, through, and other wise usually wrong on most maps! (it was only 1 block long, and in reality, was a dead end, not a through street. because of hills, the streets on either side had bends (so some properites had very deep lots, they were actually steep hillsides) so sometimes it bend to match the street on the right, and sometime it was shown straight, and sometimes shown to match the street to the left (where North was top of page, and left and right relative) it was sort of fun, checking out maps to see how it was drawn!
