“There’s a kind of misconception that this road is named after Prince Andrew… now Mr Mountbatten Windsor,” said Gurney, a Conservative county, district and parish councillor.
In fact, she said, research indicated it was named before he was born, in honour of his grandfather, who died in 1944, and was father of Prince Philip, formerly the Duke of Edinburgh.
For the name to be changed, she said, every single resident would have to agree.