BS: Unusual Street/Road Names

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: RangerSteve
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 05:31 PM

Whipma-Whopmagate, huh? Another one I wouldn't want to tell the police while drunk is Goa Way. It's in a town somewhere on the NJ coast.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: ddw
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 05:10 PM

Just outside Windsor, Ont. there's a road called Disputed Road.

Crossing I-75 in Kentucky is Stinking Creek Road.

And tucked back in the hills of Virginia near where Va, N.C., Tenn. and Ky. meet is a little hamlet called Goose Pimple Junction, Va.

And one of my favorite town names has always been Cowpens, S.C. We used to drive through it on the way to the drag strip in Chester, S.C.

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 04:41 PM

I used to live just off of 'Pig's Ear Road' in Garrett County, Maryland. Pig's Ear Road was pretty close to 'Devil's Half Acre Road'.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Quincy
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 02:51 PM

When I was visiting family in New Zealand, I was in the car with my cousin and he suddenly pulled over and kissed me on the cheek!
He then pointed to the road name to show me that I had been kissed in "Every Street" in Dunedin!!

best wishes, Yvonne

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 02:04 PM

Just north of Stony Point, (central) VA, is a road called Pinch'Em Slyly. My fave. There is of course a Lover's Lane near Gordonsville, but the sign doesn't stay up for more than 36 hours, so it's not called that often...

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: bobby's girl
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:51 PM

In York (UK) a lot of the streets are Something-gate from the viking language, and there is one called Whipma-Whopma gate. To add to the oddity, the three houses are numbered one, one and a half and two! Imagine getting arrested when drunk in a different town and trying to persuade a policeman that your address is One and a half Whipma-Whopmagate!

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: dwditty
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:39 PM

A few towns over there is Roast Meat Hill Road.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: The Walrus
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:27 PM

Gervaise,

Didn't "Gropec*nt Lane" become Threadneedle Street?

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: RangerSteve
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:16 PM

To the above I'll add Street Road, going from Philadelphia up into Bucks County, and Lane Avenue in West Caldwell, NJ. When I started this thread I omitted Sodom Road, in Hunterdon County, NJ, but don't go looking for it, once the yuppies moved in, they got offended and had it changed to Forest Glen Rd, or something equally boring. Yuppies ruin everything.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:13 PM

My daughter recently lived on a 'Never Mind Lane' in Colorado Springs.

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:02 PM

Toronto has an Avenue Road.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Megan L
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 12:54 PM

There is a Goosedubs lane in Glasgow

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 12:15 PM

A friend of past years who was very much into cars and highspeed ralleying told me that writing ralley driving instructions is a sadistic sport in many cases. The instructions are often literally correct but misleading.

One favorite set of instructions he mentioned said something like "two and a half miles. turn right on that road," all in lower case. The sign, which was not very prominent, did indeed say "That Road." The confusion between "that" as a general description and "That" as a name cost many a driver seconds, and thus points.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: GUEST,Wavestar
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 12:00 PM

When I worked for the map company, I had sheets of them... every map I proofed or edited had a few. It was cool.

-J

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Midchuck
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:54 AM

Not a street, but there's a Ticklenaked Pond over on the other side of Vermont.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:50 AM

hmmm...I know some people who lived near the intersection of Gallows & Hemlock in Falls Church, VA....(Socrates could have had a choice)

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:49 AM

In hull there is a Land of Green Ginger,its a small street in the city centre,sorry I dont know the history.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 10:35 AM

I collect risque ones for a personal project.
One that has appeared in a UK comic called the Sun on page three (as has Mr Red)
"Minge Lane" (UK slang for er... a naughty bit) and just to make it more interesting one of the founder members of the Upton upon Severn Folk Festival lives there - Pat Cox.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: alison
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 10:30 AM

there was a "Franki Lane" just round the corner from me in Sydeny....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Gervase
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 10:15 AM

Sadly now gone, but there used to be a "Gropec*nt Lane" in the City of London.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 09:58 AM

Stoat's Nest Road, just off the A23 between Croydon & Purley (England).
Nonsuch Park, also in or around Croydon.
I don't know the history though.

Subject: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: RangerSteve
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 09:53 AM

I think this counts as folklore. I collect unusual road names. Here in New Jersey there's a Shades of Death Road. According to legend, during the American Revolution, some colonists slaughtered some British soldiers and dumped the bodies in a lake. The mist at night resembles ghosts. Or the soldiers killed the colonists, or colonists killed some Indians. No one knows for sure, or even if anyone slaughtered anyone. There's also a Foul Rift Rd along the Delaware River. On Long Island, where I grew up there's a Skunks Misery Rd (northern Nassau County). I have no idea where the last two names came from. Does anyone have any more great names? Locations would be nice, so I can visit them someday.