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I'd like to know where the one near Beccles is. I used to live there and I'm quite surprised to hear of such an amusing hack nearby. Curious that the other high number one is also in Suffolk, only about 30km away.

Now I'm wondering if it's possible to register an irrational number like Pi. I suppose "Pi" could be a house name but I would want it to be the number.

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Some people like having house names as well as a numbers. We live at no.69 and I once entertained the idea of calling it "No. 47", but the idea was quickly vetoed.

(In case you're wondering "why 47?", for some reason our street doesn't have a no.47, so it would have been a fairly benign joke)

It's a string so you can probably register anything you like. In our village there are is a road with houses with numbers "<N> Cottages" and "<N>" (for various numbers <N>). I guess post is often misdirected.

I grew up maybe 300m from the Minus One house mentioned in Clacton On Sea and did a paper in that area for a couple of years and never heard of it so I’m wondering how true some of these really are?

Well, you can read it ("MINUS ONE") on the front of the house if you zoom in on the StreetView photo. And the Royal Mail recognises it (try pasting "minus one, clacton" into https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode).

Though it may be a house name rather than a number.

Yeh I think it’s a name rather than a number to be honest, also I’m going back twenty years so might not have been a thing back then.

Yes, as a Suffolk resident I'm wondering if there's some special thing about high house numbers.

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