"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
h.li...
Hello!

There's a village called Wivenhoe, in the depths of Essex. It's,
well, mostly harmless, really.

So why is there a street called Wivenhoe Court in Hounslow? He

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.465926%2C-0.376346

And why is there another one in Frome, Somerset? He

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.236813%2C-2.299442

In the latter case, there seems to be an estate with streets whose
names all start with a 'wi' sound, and i suppose whoever did the
names just came across Wivenhoe in a gazetter or something.

The former is more of a puzzle. None of the names of surrounding
streets have any link that i can see. A MYSTERY!

In the USA it's said that building estate developers always name the
streets after the things that their new estate has destroyed.

Jeremy Parker