[Closed] Strange/unusual street or place names.

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If that Canal Street sign is from the one in Manchester, then the amended version is a more accurate description.

Oh,

I live just down the road from Bedlam. I'll get a picture later if you like.

Just outside Uplawmoor near Glasgow is a house called....

SPUNKIE !!

Had to point it out to the dark side bunch the other night.

Think it is on an old map i have so at least a hundred years old.

From what i recall, there used to be a few places called 'grope xxxx lane'. Allegedly derives from medieval times when sexual terms and terms for body parts weren't as offensive as they are today. Needless to say it was usually where the 'ladies of negotiable affection' plied their trade...

Yes,that's what Wikki says, no need for a swear filter in them days ! 😀

From what i recall, there used to be a few places called 'grope xxxx lane'. Allegedly derives from medieval times when sexual terms and terms for body parts weren't as offensive as they are today. Needless to say it was usually where the 'ladies of negotiable affection' plied their trade...

Lots of towns had them, but most have coyly been re-named Love St, Lovers Lane or similar.

I quite like 'Stinking Wynd' in Culross in Fife.

I also like all the ambivalent place names in Galloway - Ae? Urr... Mabie. And then to add to the ambivalence quite a few places have two names and the can't settle on which to use "Kippford or Scaur", "Crocketford or Nine Mile Bar"

no need for a swear filter in them days !

There still isn't in S****horpe

Swansea has a Salubrious Place with a Salubrious Passage leading off from it.
🙂

I lived here for a year:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=pratts+bottom&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x47df53484e5a61e9:0xb88a3a1f457edd8b,Pratts+Bottom,+Orpington,+Greater+London&gl=uk&ei=zQo8TuzYN42LhQfTlv2AAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CCIQ8gEwAQ

Badgers Mount, near pratts bottom.

the asshawes
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=359920&y=414382&z=106&sv=359920,414382&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=650&ax=359920&ay=414382&lm=0

also a mincing lane in Blackburn which always made me chuckle

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In York.

Also, I seem to remember a St Anne's Passage in.. umm.. Oxford peraps?

There's a Cocklick End in Gisburn Forest.

Nempnett Thrubwell is a good village name too 🙂

In Donegal, I turned right, I was disappointed ...

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There's a famous Diving Club there, y'know.

Which way does Little Red Ridinghood need to go? [IMG] [/IMG]

So, if there is Ramsbottom, is there also Upper Ramsbottom?

I always liked going through Wet Wang somewhere near Driffield.