Interesting. Did they change the street names much to reflect that the former stables are now apartments or are they still called something with mews in the name? I have also heard that apartments are called flats in England, or is that term antiquated now? I have some ancestry from England (around the Devonshire area). Puddicombe's and Roses, and in fact there is supposed to be a Puddicombe's landing (I believe somewhere in Devonshire) though I've never been able to find it on a map.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sure, those words are still in common use. An alleyway is a very narrow street. A "mews" is a dead- end street, originally leading to a block of stables behind houses, from the time when every house kept horses. These days, the old stables have almost all been converted into apartments.
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