Beyond Streets and Avenues: Simple Visual Guide to Different Types of Roads

Doesn't need shops, this is the default word within any built-up area (even a village centre).

* Square - With a road/roads encircling it

No, this would be a paved area usually outside significant buildings. Often contained a market.

* Market - the market square, or the streets at its sides

* Causeway

That's a road to an island that floods at high tide.

* Mews -- houses that used to be stables

* Circus -- roads joining with a circular "square" (Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus).

Boulevard, avenue and parkway tend to suggest imported American terms for places under 80 years old.

* Parade -- small shops in a 20th century development

* Hill -- obvious

* Gate -- either a city gate, or cognate to the Norse word for street (c.f. Danish gade).

* Terrace, drive, crescent, esplanade, villas, walk, approach, ...

Common road/street identifiers here include:

  - X-Y-Strasse  = e.g. "John Smith Street", bigger street
  - X-Weg        = e.g. "Falcon Road", smaller street, probably more rural, but hard to tell
  - Y-Gasse      = e.g. "Market Alley", smaller street, probably more urban, but hard to tell
  - X-Allee      = e.g "Poplar Alley", it has trees on both sides
  - X-Ring/Bogen = really only circular roads, not so common

I think my point is that 90% use Strasse/Weg/Platz and only 10% combined are all the rest - or I am totally oblivious to the rules, but afaik I've never seen anything like naming them different based on direction or hard criteria for buildings around (exception is "Allee")

NB: I used hyphenation in my examples to better distinguish, this is only the correct form for most given names. e.g. it would "Johann-Schmidt-Strasse", but written in one word (e.g. "Falkenweg" for "Falcon Road") and in 2 words for place names, e.g. "Berliner Strasse" for "Berlin Street").

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> A good editor would have replaced that comma with a semicolon.

As usual for such problems, there are multiple fixes. I think just switching the clauses, as in "Avenue: perpendicular to streets, may have trees on one side", is just as clear (although of course it's easy to come up with examples where such a re-ordering won't do it).