I think I have already expressed a view or two on all these new new housing developments which keep springing up everywhere, and how they are nearly all identical brick and tile boxes straight out of Barratt’s catalogue of designs. I may also have gone on at boring length about the twee rustic names given to these estates and apartment blocks.
Where do they get these names from?
My guess is that they have something like this, but with a few more options. How it works is that you take any word from column A then any word from column B and you have the perfect name for a mass-produced anonymous housing estate.
| kestrel meridien riverside spinners oakland parkside chestnut heron fallow highwood martingale kingsmead saxon church greenside weavers greenleas sixpenny briars badgers maypole monks castle michaelmas barley scholars knights tudor canal cedar |
court grange point chase heights wharf chime farm reach meadow fold village acres coppice fields aspect croft view valley mount mead hollow down manor dell ridings cloisters gardens keep grove |
Thats 900 faux-rustic names to keep all the developers going for a few months. At a pinch take any word from either column and put “The” in front of it and an “s” on the end if there is not one there already.
Extra points for using a name like ‘Chestnut Coppice’ for an inner-city development.
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