Did you know? The City of London has no roads...

Do you ever read a newspaper article or blog and immediately think something along the lines of "that's cool, but now I feel stupid?" Well that just happened to me. Thanks Londonist!

The brilliant Londonist website has a story up at the moment titled 'Why there's not a single road in the City of London'. First thoughts are "what are they talking about?" but as they explain this is an excellent bit of trivia. There are plenty of streets, squares and alleys, but traditionally not a single road. This is however only true on a technicality of wording, of course.

So if like me your job role entails, site visiting the City on numerous occasions during the year, commuting through it every day of the working week (above ground I might add) and looking at maps of the city on a weekly basis, this bit of 'trivia' is quite enlightening.

And when you think that as rightly Londonist state, the reason for this historic anomaly appears to be because the sense of the word 'road' was not coined until the late 16^th Century, after nearly all the thoroughfares in the ancient City had already been named.

And now it seems so obvious too! Now I feel really stupid. I wasn't the only was I?

Londonist - 1. Me - Nil

Spot the road. 

Check out the Londonist story here.