Blocks? What are these "blocks" of which you speak? :)
No, seriously... I grew up in an inner-city residential part of Manchester, which is about as block-like as a British city ever gets. The houses in that area were all built at the same time, in the early part of the 20th century, before the First World War, but we called them rows not blocks because the properties were in long thin rectangles, not square blocks. And then this pattern was overlain over the older settlements that had been there previously, so anything called "lane" rather than "street" tended to wander and wiggle with the new regular grid pattern doing its best to fit into it.
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No, seriously... I grew up in an inner-city residential part of Manchester, which is about as block-like as a British city ever gets. The houses in that area were all built at the same time, in the early part of the 20th century, before the First World War, but we called them rows not blocks because the properties were in long thin rectangles, not square blocks. And then this pattern was overlain over the older settlements that had been there previously, so anything called "lane" rather than "street" tended to wander and wiggle with the new regular grid pattern doing its best to fit into it.