[Closed] Strange/unusual street or place names.

Noplace near Beamish up north 🙂

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upton on severn

Bumble hole lane.. where you'll find [url= http://www.bumblehole.co.uk/contact.php?page=contact ]Bumble hole foods[/url]!
Which sounds funnier than it should really

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[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_End ]Bell end in Worcestershire[/url]

Interesting history behind Grope Lane, bet that wasn't its original. Wiki it.....

Salt Pie Alley in wakefield is one of my faves.

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😳 😳 Now thats an interesting result off Wikki....

At the top of our road is a junction called 'Dangerous Corner'.

But of course, you'd need to go a long way to beat those crazy scots.
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There's a Ranters Bank in the Wyre Forest.

got a pic on my phone for a 'Giggety Lane'

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this used to be next to my local biking spot..

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[url= http://www.inquisitr.com/24697/residents-change-street-name-after-deciding-that-butt-hole-road-no-longer-appealed/ ]until the residents got it changed... 🙁 killjoys!![/url]

theres also a backside lane not far from there too!

I used to live on Fanny Street

For some reason call centre staff always asked you to spell fanny for them...

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[url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=327455&y=533387&z=120&sv=327455,533387&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=650&ax=327455&ay=533387&lm=0 ]Some hills[/url]

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To the OP: google the original name for Threadneedle Street. I would tell you but I suspect I'd fall foul of the swear filter.

there's a small place in the dales, near winterburn called tossit, it has a well

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I've always liked Upper Upham in 'Carry On..' sensibility

[url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=428978&Y=470256&A=Y&Z=120 ]Studley Roger [/url]

ransos, pretty much the same as Grope Lane 😳 Must have been a pretty common thing in days of old! 😯

F*cking in Austria
http://www.harisingh.com/newsDidYouKnowWTF.htm

Apparently it amuses English tourists, so they steal the sign.

(and amuses web monkeys to remove the ability to post pic with swear word in the url)

There is an OLD BREASTY HAW in Grizedale forest.

There's a town called Pussy just along the road from here. Always good for a giggle.

Khyber Pass
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Stromness, Orkney

Land of Green Ginger in Hull is one of my favourites.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Blue+Ball+Hill,+Winchester&hl=en&sll=50.811893,-1.072625&sspn=0.011701,0.033023&t=h&z=16

I really must get a picture of that one day. Its very quaint.

Looking for somewhere to go at the weekend we found a "Buttock" just to the east of Pendle Hill, Clitheroe...

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/foundonfilm/232590918/ ]The Glory Hole, Lincoln[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/foundonfilm/ ]SaRah Cutts[/url], on Flickr

Unusual post code on this one

[url= http://www.weblocal.ca/caplan-industries-inc-delta-bc.html ]Caplan Industries[/url]

Have we had

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=334500&y=492500&z=120&sv=breasty+haw&st=3&tl=Map+of+Breasty+Haw,+Cumbria+&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf

In Brizzle:
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Guess what this street is called?

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Yes, that's right - it's in my home town of Yeadon... http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825976

Rachel

There's a Wellyhole St. In Oldham.

I live not too far from Pratts Bottom.....

[url= 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 ]Map Here[/url]

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Just up the A2 is Thong- [url= http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=thong+kent&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1024&bih=485&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x47d8ca3f37a0191b:0xa1185c8d4867ea0,Thong,+Kent&gl=uk&ei=Zw88TqSOLJOChQf5lviBAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ8gEwAg ]Clicky linky[/url]

I've heard the ladies are lovely......

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nob_End ]Nob End[/url]

There is an Ince St School in Wigan. For brothers and sisters I assume.

But in Norfolk there is a village called Stiffkey but the local kids always paint out the k on the sign.

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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.
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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
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also a mincing lane in Blackburn which always made me chuckle

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/79893903@N00/372066669/ ]Whipmawhopmagate.[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/79893903@N00/ ]Pablo York[/url], on Flickr[/img]

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.

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

I always liked going through Wet Wang somewhere near Driffield.