Get to know your streets: Hail Britannia

We've talked a lot lately about Raleigh's relationship with the French. But it only makes sense that a city named for an Englishman would have its fair share of British-sounding or U.K.-related street names.

It is also not surprising that there are both Hayes Barton and Budleigh neighborhoods -- two of Raleigh's oldest -- in the Capital City.

"[Sir Walter] Raleigh was born in 1552, the exact month is unknown, in the house of Hayes Barton, in the village of East Budleigh, not far from Budleigh Salterton in Devon, England," says Wikipedia.

East of downtown, near Enloe High School, is the Long View neighborhood, chock-full of English-sounding street names: Lord Ashley; King Charles; Lord Berkley; Clarendon Crescent. There's also a Derby Street; is it pronounced "darby"?

On the other side of town, north of N.C. State, are such streets as Canterbury, Churchill, Mayfair, York; Cambridge, London, Eton, Exeter, Runnymede, Sussex, Chesterfield, Yarmouth and -- of course -- Buckingham.

And it should come as no surprise that there is a Raleigh Boulevard. There are also streets named for Avon and Oxford -- even a Robin Hood street.

I have the sneeky suspicion that I have barely scratched the surface of the English-related names in the City of Oaks. Know of any others?

(Union Jack photo from Wikipedia)