On 17 Dec, 21:14, Mr Thant
wrote:

On 17 Dec, 20:30, "Batman55" wrote:

Anybody know 6 and 13?

From the comments:
"6 - Is Apex Corner, the junction of the A1 and A41. The A1 is the
longest road in the UK connecting London with Edinburgh, while the A41
goes to Birkenhead, on the opposite bank of the Mersey to Liverpool.
While both are still major roads, they have long since been superseded
by motorways for those travelling longer distances."


You cheater! I has been trying to fathom it out from the lane markings
- I started off on the wrong foot though because I was initially
working on the basis that "TOTT" was Tottenham, though once I'd seen
the other marking of A1N I was struggling to see how it fitted
together, given that it wasn't a roundabout on (or more to the point
just off) the North Circular. I saw something that at first looked
like E&C but I knew it couldn't have been Elephant & Castle. Then I
figured out the TOTT wasn't Tottenham but Totteridge, and the E&C was
in fact more likely to be EDG for Edgware.

So I did thin it might be Apex Corner, but for some reason I had it in
my head that said roundabout had five roads leading into it,when it
has four, so I started wondering if it was somewhere further out.

Anyway, er, enough stream of conciousness babble from me, instead let
me contribute an enquiry about the naming of Apex Corner. Some guy had
a website about roads that in fact went by the very name of Apex
Corner - unfortunately it appears to have largely fallen off the web,
but this page remains, and appropriately enough it is about the Corner
from which his site took its name...
http://www.btinternet.com/~roads/whyapex.html
....unfortunately his take on the rationale behind the naming of Apex
Corner was pretty thin. Does anyone here have a better theory, or
indeed actually know the definitive answer at all?

Also interesting to note that the actual roadway of the roundabout
goes by the name of "Northway Circus"...
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/oldmap.sr...&y=192750&ar=N
....so it seems that this is a junction with a bit of an identity
crises.