On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 13:31, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
I may have been misguided here, but to me any narrower pathway in a > settlement would be suitable for the alley tag. Like those in the pictures > here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley > I agree. But they may not have names. The one in my town are all dead ends. So not used by pedestrians as short cuts from A to B, therefore no need to name them. They might be used by the residents, or those visiting the residents, and (of course) the night soil man and possibly other tradespeople, but not thoroughfares. These are very typical for historic centres (often much older than late > 19th century). > Again, I suspect their original purpose was for the night soil man and tradespeople (even 60 years ago it was expected that tradespeople, charity collectors, etc. would use the back door of a house even if there were no back alley). And I also suspect that the ones with names were short cuts of one sort or another. Because "Night Soil Alley" is not a name anyone would want to have associated with their property, but a short cut would get a name, sooner or later. -- Paul
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