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What’s the oddest street name you know?

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CormoranStrike · 08/06/2021 18:38

I passed one in Edinburgh today, called Fair-A-Far Shot, which is quite unusual.

I also know of a small hamlet, not street, called Willie Stack’s Clump, which just makes me smile.

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ConcernedAuntie · 09/06/2021 13:26

Bucket of Blood Street.

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Elzbells · 09/06/2021 13:35

Trotters Bottom

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ConcernedAuntie · 09/06/2021 13:47

@Ormally

Hillie Bunnies (wtf?!)
Barnaby Rudge
Legge Street (huge building on it with numerical sign: One Legge Street)
Scurvy Hall Lane
Ting Tang Lane

(4 Essex, one Oxon)

OMG Hillie Bunnies. That brings back memories. Many years ago I used to work for the local council and we always referred to it as Hillie Billies. One of my jobs was to print the new rent cards every year. Each one manually printed, long before word processors or PCs. One year it was only after I had printed them all that I realised I had put Hillie Billies on them all. I was not popular as they all had to be binned. Never made the same mistake again though.
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Ormally · 09/06/2021 13:52

Cool!
I have a colleague who had to bin a load of letters (maybe even letterheads, can't remember) for Leeds Cunty Council.
(Disclaimer, location totally changed to protect identity!)

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Clevs · 09/06/2021 13:52

When my in-laws were alive they lived in Minge Lane Grin

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weleasewoderick23 · 09/06/2021 13:55

Butt park road.

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HotHointheavo · 09/06/2021 14:04

Coldnose Road

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Notachanceinheaven · 09/06/2021 16:34

I was once on a bus where someone had changed the lettering of EMERGENCY EXIT to VIRGIN EXIT.

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BikeRunSki · 10/06/2021 12:01

I quite often drive along “Johnny Moor Long Lane” and “Flashey Carr Lane”.

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BikeRunSki · 10/06/2021 12:30

I once lived in a hamlet/village that had no street names. Our address was just “18 Peasholme*”.

There is a house in Tickhill, S Yorks, right on the Lincolnshire border, whose address is “1 Yorkshire”.

*not actually the name of the village.

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BettyUnderswoob · 10/06/2021 12:39

There was a Back Ends where I used to live.

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ThereIsNoSuchThingAsRoadTax · 10/06/2021 13:04

The Land of Green Ginger in Hull has already been mentioned, but I'll just also say that it has on it an apartment building called 'Second Star on the Right and Straight on 'til Morning'.

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Clawdy · 10/06/2021 13:33

Cockle Dick's Lane, in Southport.

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CormoranStrike · 10/06/2021 16:39

@ThereIsNoSuchThingAsRoadTax

The Land of Green Ginger in Hull has already been mentioned, but I'll just also say that it has on it an apartment building called 'Second Star on the Right and Straight on 'til Morning'.

Amazing! But a bugger to fill in on forms.
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PineappleWilson · 10/06/2021 16:46

Another one near Loughborough, Flesh Hovel Lane. Would love to know the history.

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Dollygirl2008 · 10/06/2021 16:57

Monks Lode, Didcot GrinGrinGrin

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SprayGunForBanksy · 11/06/2021 11:00

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll that Clive gets about doesn't he! From Herefordshire to Bucks, what a jet setter Grin

CliveandDennis? Or DennisandClive?

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Whingey · 11/06/2021 14:19

Swing swang lane. Also Uckfield road yet to see one without letter F added

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BikeRunSki · 12/06/2021 21:33

@Whingey

Swing swang lane. Also Uckfield road yet to see one without letter F added

LOl! My great grandparents lived in Uckfield!
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EducatingArti · 12/06/2021 21:41

We have a "My Street."
I once want past a row of Victorian houses in the Midlands that were on Cess Pit Road.

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PaddleBoardingMomma · 12/06/2021 21:56

Chlorine gardens in Belfast

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StripeyDeckchair · 12/06/2021 23:02

I would love to know the storey behind the (large, Victorian) house called Walter's Gift

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whippetwoman · 12/06/2021 23:22

Dirty Lane
Ugly Bridge Road

Both in Warwickshire.

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BikeRunSki · 13/06/2021 14:59

I’m just remembered....

Cheese Bottom

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GrannieD · 14/06/2021 17:10

Undershaft in London.......had a wee snigger in work this morning when i wrote to them

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