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What’s the oddest street name you know?

254 replies

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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sparklyfacemask · 08/06/2021 22:05

My friend lived in a student house in bad bargain lane - the first week after she moved in the lounge ceiling collapsed. They lived there for a year with a hole between the lounge and one of the bedrooms! Can't say she wasn't warned!

Also 'Paradise' in Scarborough. You can imagine the jokes when you ask a taxi driver to take you to paradise!

MarjorieBouvier · 08/06/2021 22:19

Fred's Road

I'm guessing someone called Fred named that one!

FaceyRomford · 08/06/2021 22:25

Zinzan Street in Reading.
Hanging Sword Alley off Fleet St in London.

EishetChayil · 08/06/2021 22:40

Cockle Dicks Lane in Southport Grin

ErrolTheDragon · 08/06/2021 22:46

@EishetChayil

Cockle Dicks Lane in Southport Grin
I was trying to remember that one!Grin

Not a street, but when I lived in Pennsylvania, I'd see signs to Intercourse.

The4ks · 08/06/2021 22:52

Dundee also has Peep-O-Day Lane which I think is a bit odd.

PleaseReferToMeAsBritneySpears · 08/06/2021 22:55

There's a Tittybottle Park in Otley, where mothers and nannies would go to nurse their babies in Victorian times.

miltonj · 08/06/2021 23:05

There's a street called 'My Street' in Salford. Confused

AdaColeman · 08/06/2021 23:09

I've always wanted to visit the Golden Ball pub at Snatchems.
Pratt's Bottom used to make me laugh as a kid, and Snodland must be where the Mewlips dwell.

BikeRunSki · 08/06/2021 23:19

Not a funny one, but very confusing to people who were not that good at English.

St Thomas St in Newcastle upon Tyne caused much confusion to overseas students, unfamiliar with St being an abbreviation of anything at all, and of both “Saint” and Street”

LadyCatStark · 08/06/2021 23:26

@AdaColeman

I've always wanted to visit the Golden Ball pub at Snatchems. Pratt's Bottom used to make me laugh as a kid, and Snodland must be where the Mewlips dwell.
I didn’t realise it was a famous pub! We go there all the time.
tinselvestsparklepants · 08/06/2021 23:36

I drove past a place in Minehead the other day simply called "Cher" . It had a proper road sign and everything.
Also nearby:
Kent and
Little Britain

Ormally · 08/06/2021 23:38

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)

mumof42020 · 08/06/2021 23:45

I always thought Dog Flea Road and Dead Cat Alley, both Nassau, The Bahamas were very bizarre street names.

ItsRainingTacos · 08/06/2021 23:47

Cock Hill Rise in Wiltshire

SiobhanSharpe · 09/06/2021 00:05

Loads in the City --
Mincing Lane
Poultry
St Mary Axe
Crutched Friars
Cowcross St
Huggin Hill

isettled · 09/06/2021 00:15

This one. Grin

What’s the oddest street name you know?
LadyEv · 09/06/2021 00:24

@Confuseddotmum

Always snigger when I see 'St Gregory's Back Alley' in Norwich Grin
There's a Back Avenue Victoria in Scarborough, which makes me laugh every time I drive past it.
LadyEv · 09/06/2021 00:28

Land of Nod in East Yorkshire

AnotherSunrise · 09/06/2021 00:36

We have Cockbush Road Hmm

Catmother20 · 09/06/2021 00:43

‘Pocket handkerchief lane’ drove through it the other day made me laugh

Friendofcheese · 09/06/2021 00:47

Fanny Hands Lane
Labour in vain drove
The glory hole
No name street on no name key Florida
Mad dog lane, Yorkshire
Lovers lane

I read somewhere that there is a Justin Bieber way in Texas Hmm

TurquoiseLemur · 09/06/2021 00:53

@BlackberrySky

The is a road in my mum's village called Bottom Club. We found it hilarious as children!
Just outside Heptonstall in West Yorkshire (near Hebden Bridge) is a hamlet called Slack. And the road leading into it is Slack Bottom.

In or near Maidstone in Kent is a Stalin Avenue. I thought they would have changed it when he, ahem, fell from favour. . . but it's still there, all these years later.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 09/06/2021 01:01

Not a street name, but Sexey's School in Bruton always strikes me as an unlikely name for a school.

DamnitFanny · 09/06/2021 01:02

Garden of Eden Grin

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