Paved roads called 'streets' have been in Britain since the Romans came here.
They form an integral part of cities and towns across the country, with High Streets and Main Streets housing the shops, pubs and cafés that are the lifeblood of communities.
But one town in Merseyside has no streets at all.
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Residents of this Knowsley town live along a Drive, Lane or Close, and a Road, Way or Ave.
You'd strain your eyes and tire your legs wandering around searching for a street called 'street' in Kirkby.
One resident, James, told the ECHO: "I didn't know that Kirkby had no streets, but it's not really something that you think of in a town.
"It's something that you expect it to have, but I think Kirkby not having streets makes it that little bit more special."
A popular belief is that Kirkby has no 'streets' because it's a town and towns don't have 'streets'.
But just a few miles away, the town of St Helens and its surrounding villages have 270 of them.
Another, seemingly more credible, theory links the lack of 'streets' with the era of developing 'new towns' after the Second World War.
Post-war slum clearances saw people moved from Liverpool to the "overspill" of Kirkby where thousands of houses were built in the 1950s.
While the attempt to have Kirkby designated a 'new town' failed, other 'new town's share its lack of 'streets'.
Stevenage in Hertfordshire was one of the first of these developments designed to rehouse people from bombed out, densely populated and deprived areas of cities like London and Liverpool.
It has only four 'streets' nestled around the Old Town pre-dating the post-war 'new town' development.
The Lancashire town of Skelmersdale, which expanded in the 1960s wave of 'new towns', follows a similar pattern.
'Streets' like Ann, Ashwall and Birch are concentrated around each other in the older, southwestern part of the town.
It is believed by some residents of Kirkby that the custom of naming streets 'grove' or 'drive rather than 'street' is to make the town sound more desirable compared to the slums where people once lived.
The truth of this is uncertain.
Kirkby resident James said: "I lived there my whole life, so it's not really something that would add to making me want to stay there or move there.
"It's just quite interesting because it's not really something that you'd think of when you think of a town.
"You'd automatically expect there to be streets with 'street' in the name."
