I want to report a hole in the road, but there's no road name

[yermum]

I want to report a large hole in the road near where I live that is likely to rip a hole in someone's tyre any day now, but there's no road name. I can't look it up on Google maps as there is no addresses nearby from which to get a post code. I have looked on my Ordinance survey map, but that's no help either. The hole is near a kind of T junction, (more of a Y junction actually) but the other road has no name either.

Any ideas how I can report this on line to my local county council?

 

[Magic_x_uk]

it may be a un-adopted road. Meaning not owned by local council. So basically tough!

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Is it a dead end?

 

[yermum]

No, it's a road leading from one village to another, but many country roads don't seem to have names or numbers around here (Bucks.)

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

If it goes from village to village its rather unlikely its a private road. Root around in the hedgerow for a sign.

By that I mean a roadsign, not Jesus trying to tell you a story.

 

[eddie101]

Google maps? Zoom in? Manually find the road?

Not hard really if you know how to follow a map.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

If you want to post a link to it on Google Maps, I'll have a nosy at my satnav and see if that has a name for it?

 

[Jono]

Yeah post the area and i'll have a look at some OS mastermap stuff at work tomorrow if you're still stuck.... Should be able to find out what it's called.

 

[yermum]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=....989799&spn=0.092315,0.219727&z=12&iwloc=addr

This should show the village of Steeple Claydon. The hole is in the road that leads down out of the village, and which forms a junction with the road that runs across from Calvert to Botolph Claydon

Thanks

 

[Blackstar]

Why not just give the council that description, i'm sure they would be able to find the hole and fix it.

 

[Cybermyk]

Maybe we could suggest a name for the road if it doesn't have one

Big Hole Road perhaps?

 

[Reppyboyo]

Google maps.

I took a screen shot of a road with no name that had problems earlier this year and sent it to my local council with a description of the problem (********* of pot holes).

Got a reply a few days later that they are investigating them, week after that they were filled.
Not too shabby.

 

[Jeff Lynne]

Addison Rd?

 

[yermum]

Sorry, but that road name only applies to the bit of the road that is in the village, but thanks for trying.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Google maps.

I took a screen shot of a road with no name that had problems earlier this year and sent it to my local council with a description of the problem (********* of pot holes).

Got a reply a few days later that they are investigating them, week after that they were filled.
Not too shabby.

My Satnav calls it "Road".

N 51 55.691
W 000 59.482

Not that this is much use given that Google maps would give you the same details.

Ordanance Survey themselves don't even bother to name it, though I can tell you that Rose Hill Farm and Redland Bridge is on it.

Try giving the council that info, might work.

 

[Monkeynut]

OcUK Road?

 

[PhillyDee]

I was going to suggest the actual GPS co-ordinates of the hole/road in question.

 

[CliffyBiro]

I suggest we make an OCuk flag and you plant it in the middle of the road to claim it as our territory.

 

[Cybermyk]

I suggest we make an OCuk flag and you plant it in the middle of the road to claim it as our territory.

I reckon we could easy get it up to 90 from 60 without too much trouble although I think we should actually clock it down a bit on days when its watercooled.

 

[PhillyDee]

Lol! Took a couple of reads, but yet makes oh so much sense . Im off to bed!