It is pretty obvious in my mind. St is correct, Saint is wrong. Unless there is evidence that Saint is the prevalent spelling on the ground. And I am unanimous in that.
A great uncle+aunt of mine used to live in St Nicholas Road, in one of the old Row houses with an outside dunny! Could never understand a word they said... //colin On 17 July 2017 14:45:22 CEST, Stuart Reynolds <stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote: >Hi All, > >I have read and re-read all of the guidance and local rules relating to >the use of abbreviations where it would be wrong to expand “St” into >“Saint”. It is quite clear that, for the UK, “Saint Ives” is wrong, >whereas “St Ives” is correct. There is also one page where I have found >“St Mary’s Church” is correct, but “Saint Mary’s Church” is wrong. All >of this I agree with. > >The question I want to clarify is the use of “Saint” in street names. I >think that is similarly clear that e.g. “St Nicholas Road” (with the >full expansion of “road”!) is correct, and “Saint Nicholas Road” isn’t. >But since the small handful that I initially came across in Great >Yarmouth were last edited by an experienced OSMer (Rob Whittaker), I >thought that it was better to check with the community than just change >it. > >A not-so-quick Overpass query (using a map which contained the whole of >the UK, and hence Ireland and a bit of Belgium) tells me that there are >10,324 ways which are named “Saint *” which potentially need changing >if we agree that “St *” is correct. > >By contrast there are 26,559 ways that are named “St *”, and a further >7,252 that are named “St. *”. > >Regards, >Stuart Reynolds >for traveline south east & anglia
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