I have a question about Harry Potter/England

[conuly]

In book 5, it says that Sirius' house (number 12) is in between numbers 11 and 13. Is this normal for England? In the US, streets are all even on one side, and all odd on the other, so number 12 would be in between 10 and 14, not 11 and 13.

Comments

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

In Berlin, the numbers start going continuously down one side of the street, then back up the other side. The streets are generally fairly short (by which I mean a continuous street changes names), so it works.

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

This is SO aggravating. The same (continuous) street can end up with a different name every time it is crossed by another street sometimes! Makes navigation extremely difficult, if one is not a local...