I am doing a survey to endeavour to find an answer to this gripping question. Just how many roads (or streets or avenues or even lanes) did you actually plod along before puberty came and took you?

I estimate that I must have ventured along around 250, 000, during this immature time of my life - but not counting Delves Road at Hackenthorpe, as I only crossed it to go to Rainbow Forge School.

How about you?

I need fairly accurate figures as it is for the government.

None!!!!

Me mam wouldn't let me out till I were 14.:(

i always thought it was 54 or 27 if they were all hilly roads as a hilly road is worth 2 regular roads. so it could be said that males mature to men sooner in sheffield than, say manchester

Do foreign roads count?

Do you have to have walked the full length of the road, or just part of it?

What about paths through parks, walks through fields or strolls in the woods?

Do private roads count, or just public roads?

I don't think you've thought this through Sam :rolleyes:

i suspect your estimate is very high, i walked a few roads many times, and i never used a hovercraft, no more than 1000 I think, and probably less.

A popular theory is that the answer to this massive question is blowin' in the wind, but I believe in logic. Perhaps I did overestimate my street-cred a little, but I bet I've walked down hundreds of roads in my time.

I mean, how many seas must a white dove sail , beore it sleeps in the sand? Loads, I bet.

Anyway, I've tried counting, and I keep coming up with the figure, 12,602 ( UK roads that is). I didn't go abroad until I was twenty-three, so I can't count the other 845 I have walked down abroad.

I have walked up Bellhouse Road 67 times, but 'up' doesn't really count, does it? Park paths are right out. Forget them.

Keep the figures coming in, this is indeed a fascinating experiment.

i tried as long as i could to not reach puberty and to hang onto my childhood - consequently i was often seen walking on my hands and didn't reach puberty until 19 yrs 5 months 3 days - this would indeed indicate that your research is vaild in the first instance although i'm not sure how relevant my figures would be as the longer roads were partly hand walked and partly walked on foot so i fear my recollections fail me somewhat

perhaps you could come up with an alternative discourse (if you are attempting to apply some theory) as far as i am concerned?

Oh dear. I haven't thought my hypothesis through properly. I suppose walking on feet has to be a constant and not a variable.

Hand walking, I'm afraid, is right out.

If I catch anyone walking on their hands outside my house this afternoon, I will personally give them a rollocking, but with a 'b' as opposed to an 'r'.

This is cheating. Foot transport only please and always walk on roads that take you nearer to sea-level as opposed to snowy peaks.

This is getting gripping, now.