The world as a text adventure.
Type a direction and walk. Every street, building, name and date comes from open data.
It starts with Addiscombe, in Croydon: 301 streets and 1,187 places, from a map dated 25 October 2026.
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Sundridge Road, Lower Addiscombe Road and Bingham Road
It is said that you are in Addiscombe East, a ward.
Three roads meet here: Sundridge Road, Lower Addiscombe Road, Bingham Road. Lit at night, 30 mph. The Addiscombe Village shopping area lies north-west, a residential area south-east, and all of it is Addiscombe. It is crowded. I give you the two nearest and no more.
Beside you to the north-west, at 207 Lower Addiscombe Road, there is a fast food place, “Brothers Kebab”. It serves kebab, takeaway. So it did in October 2018, when it was last recorded. Word is that “BROTHERS KEBAB ADDISCOMBE LTD” has been registered here since December 2019. Its food hygiene rating, they say, is 5, given in April 2025.
North of you, at 209-213, stands a retail building. It was a bank. Once it was “est Bank”. Or there was NatWest here until January 2021, and then there was not. One name or the other; I cannot tell you which the bank went by.
The bank is gone, the kebab is rated, and the number stays: 209-213 Lower Addiscombe Road.
How it works
The places are built from OpenStreetMap and public records: food hygiene ratings, planning applications, house sales, listed buildings, bus stops.
Nothing is made up. Where the data is wrong or missing, the game says so as it stands. A bank whose sign was recorded as “est Bank” is called “est Bank”.
Some of it is live: the buses due at a stop, today’s weather, the nearest traffic camera.
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