Road, Street, Lane Names.

AuntieE

I can think of quite a few place names that were not rude in the Middle Ages or whenever they were given their names but today are so coarse that I just do not dare write them here.

One of the not quite so rude, but where I would not like to live is the housing estate outside Glasgow called Nitshill.

I know of a lane, the name of which was too rude to mention, it was re-named Sorrel Lane I think sometime in the 1960s.

A dear friend used to live in Swill Tub Lane in Suffolk.

I used to live in a town with a Love Lane and a Willing Way.

I can think of quite a few place names that were not rude in the Middle Ages or whenever they were given their names but today are so coarse that I just do not dare write them here.

One of the not quite so rude, but where I would not like to live is the housing estate outside Glasgow called Nitshill.

CountessFosco

New development near us, with one road = Hedgehog Row

I’d like to live in Hedgehog Row!

I live near a Love Lane in London and there is also a Honeypot Lane.

Many years ago after the Olympics, Council houses were built and named after the athletes, like Lillian Board Avenue or whatever, I am showing my age!

In the nearby town there is a Pig's head in the Pottage Pot Gant.

Not long ago we drove past a road I would definitely not like to live in - Cemetery Lane - with a 'One Way' sign next to it!!!!!

I used to stay near the village of Blubberhouses in Yorkshire. A pretty place but the name has sad origins

There’s a Misery Hill in Dublin.

I used to live and work in the Basel area in Switzerland (no longer there so no Eurovision for me!) and would regularly walk past 'Butholen Weg' which translates to Buthole Way.....

Melancholy lane in my village in Dorset.

I sometimes pass a road named Hearts Delight Lane, it's a few miles from where I live, I'd love to live there!

We used to live in Idle, near Bradford. I believe there was an 'Idle Working Men's Club'!

There’s a Featherbed Lane near Shrewsbury, my father told me it was named after the civil war battle of Shrewsbury where feather beds were laid out for the wounded. I’m not sure if this is true but he was right very often!

I love the brevity of Cow Lane.

New development near us, with one road = Hedgehog Row

There was a Featherbed Lane near us when I was a child, but the name was changed to Feather Lane. Why?

In York there’s a street call Whipma Whopma Gate, and in Hull one called The Land of Green Ginger. I think those take some beating. Also in York is The Shambles.

There’s Cackle Street near Uckfield. It conjures up images of ‘hubble, bubble…’! 🧙‍♀️

I don't think that's the South Woodford one n that photo because the buildings seemed taller to me. Laura Ashley had a big shop on Electric Parade E18 in my day, 2005 - 2020. I think it's now a Turkish food shop. Off to look it up!

Scribbles

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.

Is this Electric Parade part of George Lane in South Woodford by any chance? It looks very like my, very distant, memories of the place.

There is a Scratchface Lane in Burnt Hill, West Berkshire.

Wyre Piddle, Pershore always made me laugh when we went through it.

Bullshit Hill is in South Australia. Yorkey’s knob is a lovely beach suburb in Queensland - we were up there a couple of weeks ago.