Road, Street, Lane Names.

CountessFosco

New development near us, with one road = Hedgehog Row

I’d like to live in Hedgehog Row!

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

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

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.

Kidnappers Lane in Leckhampton (Cheltenham).
Near to Dead Man's Quarry!

There's a very nice fish and chip shop at the end of Jingling Lane, in Kirkby Lonsdale.

There is a Squeeze Guts Alley in Truro Cornwall, it is true to its name.

There is a Cling Clang Lane in Oxfordshire but I have no idea of the origin of that one.

I thought Comfort Road in Cornwall sounded very nice until I was told this was named after the ladies of the night plied their trade there!

There is an Arguments Yard in Whitby and my DD tells me there is a Resolution Hotel.

Ah yes, Squeezee Belly Alley - real name Temple Bar, nicknamed Squeezee Belly Alley by locals. I grew up in Port Isaac, and for a time when I was a young child, we lived with my gran just around the corner. Happy times….. (not one of our photographs you understand, I’ve just nicked it from the P.I. Heritage site!)

There is a Grope Lane in Shrewsbury, narrow with overhanging jettied buildings. Also a hamlet called Wigwig in Shropshire where there was a proliferation of insects!

I live on Featherbed Lane. LOL. My end is just a group of terrace houses in a square not very illustrious at all. However at the other end of the "Lane" which is a country lane there are some very large important looking establishments that I would have given my eye teeth for at some point in my life. They all have double fronted bay windows, extensions, sweeping drives that you can drive into and out again without having to reverse. I suspect they are even more luxurious at the rear. I've never seen that side. (Tongue in cheek sort of post really) I quite like my house I've lived here for almost 50 years now.

There is a place called Friendly in West Yorkshire

Not saying one as too idetifying. And unique.
But the close was named after a famous character in a film that had recently been screened.
Ridiculous name to call a close. But hey ho.

I’m very fond of Great Snoring and Little Snoring in Norfolk - we seem to have moved from street names to place names.

An ancestor of mine is buried in Deadman's Place.
South Yorkshire Police have an operations centre in Letsby Avenue.

I walk past this road sign several times a week and love it.
'The Ocean at the end of the lane' In Southsea.
It is a little grandiose as it's not an Ocean but I still smile.

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.

No, Magenta8, it's Seven Kings Road, Ilford.

There’s one in Bristol called There And Back Again.

I was told that a road called Pig Lane had its name changed after a new police station was built there.

Loggerheads in Cheshire!

There's also a Loggerheads in Staffordshire 🙂

I believe there is a Velvet Bottom somewhere in the New Forest. Sounds comfy!

There's a street in Deal called Ticklebelly Alley