Road, Street, Lane Names.

Christmas Pie nr Guildford.

Kate1949

We have an Electric Avenue. I must rock down there one day.

I know of a row of shops in a place called Electric Parade. One can fantasise about what goes on there.

Nandalot

Nanato3

Casdon

While we were in Budleigh Salterton on holiday last autumn, we walked down a road called Inner Ting Tong! I did think that was lovely, it stuck in my mind.

I wonder if there is an Outer Ting Tong 🤔

I know of a Water Lane, don't fancy living there .

I used to live on a Water Lane. It never flooded while we were there but we did have a small river at the bottom of a very long garden.

We have a Love Lane near us.

We have a Watery Lane.
And a Bullyhole Bottom
Years ago I used to push a pram up a very steep Drunken Bridge Hill.

We have a Slash Lane (white floods at the first sign of rain) and we also have Flesh Hovel Lane.

Squeeze Gut Alley in Whitstable.

Here's another Electric Parade. Several decades ago, I used to get my hair cut in the shop which is now a solicitor's office.
It all resonates fading glory now but I'd love to see the whole block with its lovely art deco facade thoroughly smartened up and refurbished.

I used to live in Featherbed Lane Nanato3

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growstuff

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Nanato3

Casdon

While we were in Budleigh Salterton on holiday last autumn, we walked down a road called Inner Ting Tong! I did think that was lovely, it stuck in my mind.

I wonder if there is an Outer Ting Tong 🤔

I know of a Water Lane, don't fancy living there .

Yes, there is an Outer Ting Tong in Budleigh too. It's where the two roads meet, the word Ting is derived from an old word for hill.
Watch out for the sharp bends and high Devon Banks there! 🚗

Alternatively, the Ting element could be derived form "Thing", which was a form of medieval meeting place/council. The English Place Name Society suggests the Tong element (in the Yorkshire Tong) could be either a river-fork (cognate with tongs) or a spit of land.

Aha,so like a sort of fort where the council met?
Usually on higher ground?

escaped The "Things" weren't forts, but they were usually on higher ground, so the speakers could stand at the top and the ordinary people could stand at the bottom and see what was going on. Tynwald in the Isle of Man is the same derivation.

My guess would be that Ting Tong was a meeting place near a fork in a river (or maybe roads/pathways) - or I could be totally wrong!

I Earls Colne not far from me is Hillie Bunnies, very children's story book and cosy sounding.

There was a Robbery Bottom near where a GM lived - we found it very funny as kids, but not far away was also a Turpin’s Ride, which explained it. It was near what used to be the Great North Road.

Prudes read no further, but according to Bill Bryson in Mother Tongue, there used to be a London road called Gropec*nt Lane!

We have a Love Lane near us.

There's a Love Lane not far from me too and a
Gibbet Hill ( hangings used to take place here at one time)

In the Cotswolds there's Upper and Lower Slaughter . Awful names but beautiful place.

As a child I used to live on Apple Pie lane, so called due to the sharp Z bend in the middle.

I always liked the sound of Swingswang Lane in a nearby town but went off it a little when I discovered it used to be the site of a hanging post 😳

Siptree

I Earls Colne not far from me is Hillie Bunnies, very children's story book and cosy sounding.

Hillie Bunnies is crossed by Burrows Road. The whole of Earls Colne must have been overrun by rabbits.

There's a Dancing Dicks Lane in Witham, Essex. (Hope that's not too rude.)

Nanato3

In the Cotswolds there's Upper and Lower Slaughter . Awful names but beautiful place.

My DGGM lived in Lower Slaughter.

There's a Slaparse Lane on the outskirts of Exeter! (Sorry!)

Here's a clip of the wonderful Maggie Duffy singing a song she wrote about Squeezy Belly Alley:-

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1901623296748881

In Oxford there's Crotch Crescent.
I have a photograph of myself, in the Yorkshire Dales. I'm standing under the signpost to Crackpot.
There's Featherbed Lane near me in Oxfordshire and also in Shrewsbury.

growstuff

There's a Dancing Dicks Lane in Witham, Essex. (Hope that's not too rude.)

That conjures up some naughty pictures

I have a photograph of myself, in the Yorkshire Dales. I'm standing under the signpost to Crackpot.

Allira

Nanato3

In the Cotswolds there's Upper and Lower Slaughter . Awful names but beautiful place.

My DGGM lived in Lower Slaughter.

I do love the Cotswolds.
The Slaughters are beautiful, they're so old, lots of history there .

Nanato3

Allira

Nanato3

In the Cotswolds there's Upper and Lower Slaughter . Awful names but beautiful place.

My DGGM lived in Lower Slaughter.

I do love the Cotswolds.
The Slaughters are beautiful, they're so old, lots of history there .

Why did they get named that, I wonder?

Old English Origin:
The name "Slaughter" comes from the Old English term "slōhtrē," which described a muddy or marshy area, potentially referencing the river's banks.

Christmas Steps in Bristol is my all time favourite place name .