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Originally Posted by Ann from Sussex
That's interesting Kite. What an odd and confusing thing to do with a street: imagine if it were still the same today! I wonder how that came about? Maybe I owe that long-gone enumerator an apology! It still doesn't help me find out where Mary was or why her husband was recorded as Hugh when in absolutely every other record for him thoughout his life (and there are quite a few) he is always named in full as Henry Hugh.
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I went for a walk round Rotherhithe once and was told that in the Victorian period there were (from memory!) six number ones High Street. This is often down to terraces, new houses being inserted etc, etc. I think the Post Office revolted, and in the mid 1870s there was a lot of rationalisation, with renumbering, name changes for roads and even towns. Poor Cranley lost out to Crawley and became henceforth Cranleigh.