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Goodison Park, flanked on three sides by rows of Victorian terraced housing, can sneak up on you.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025

She picks out the backdrop of “Coronation Street” — based on Salford itself — as authentically northern: the architecture of back-to-back terraced housing and cobbled streets, the social life revolving around the pub.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2020

For once on derby day, the tightly packed rows of terraced housing had no fans trampling past doorsteps or scouring for parking spaces.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2020

Totems of British greyness – bad food, terraced housing, tatty pubs and rain-drenched football – were all given glamorous makeovers.

From Newsweek • Apr. 10, 2015

Opposite Foster's house is a square field of wasteland where once two streets of terraced housing stood.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2011