A bit of a ride

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Yes, ES, it is called 'Bell's Line of Road'. I also find it a very strange name. There's certainly no speech convention that I'm aware of that would give rise to it.

A cursory Internet search doesn't help, other than to discover it was originally an Aboriginal route and was then called Bell's Line. Why it wasn't called 'Bell's Line Rd' is likely to remain a mystery to me unless one of my NSW based colleagues can shed further light on it.

When surveyors marked routes, both rail and road, it was common to call them a "line". Thus that was Bell's line. Line on a map I guess. Some others I have heard include, for instance, the "Old line". Not generally used as road names though.

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