BS: Unusual Street/Road Names

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 04:47 PM

I'm a bit late with this one.I knew John from Hull would mention the Land of Green Ginger. John, I believe it's mamed for a(possibly) Dutch merchant called Groenhinge or something. I recall in Grimsby a Peppercorn Walk.Always liked that one. Working as an accounts clerk years ago I used to send a monthly statement to 2, Oddfellows Cottages, but I can't remember where it was (is).

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Ian Darby
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 08:41 PM

Uncouth Street, I think its in Rochdale....

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Janice in NJ
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 09:27 PM

Fingerboard Road on Staten Island in New York City.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From:
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 05:31 PM

hocum pocum lane - sadly renamed dermody road in lewisham south-east london

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 08:32 PM

Crotch Crescent, Oxford, Not far from Headington where C# collected his first Morris dance. I noticed a load of biker type bikes outside #69 (just had to be).

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: GUEST,Gorgeous Gary
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 09:42 PM

Speaking of Columbia, MD, my favorite streets are Cloudleap Court and Lightning Strike Way. But while I'm amused by the names, I'd **never** buy a house there!

And while we're talking about Columbia, in the four years I lived there I never did figure out just what a "King's Contrivance" was...

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Warsaw Ed
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 01:00 AM

I remember a road just south of Olean, New York where the road sign said "Paradise Road" and next to it was a sign which said "Dead End"

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: GUEST,Gerald
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 01:18 PM

Well, the popular (but confusing) Philadelphia fav "Street Road" has been taken, but there's also:

Airdrie St., Busti St., Defense Terrace, Pigs Alley (only 15 houses), and my current favorite (outside the city): Balligomingo Road.

But for place names, Pennsylvania has probably got the best. Along with Intercourse, PA (I had to buy a shot glass with the logo) there's also Climax, Bird-In-Hand (better than two in the ...), Beaver, New Beaver, BIG BEAVER(!), Blue Ball, Ball Town, and, of course, Virginville, along with the less naughty names like Slippery Rock, Jersey Shore (middle of Appalachian Mountains) and King of Prussia.

King of Prussia?

Regards,

Gerald

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jul 02 - 11:37 AM

There's the 'knockmealldown' mountains near Dungarven in Southern Ireland :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: GUEST,Les B.
Date: 02 Jul 02 - 01:15 PM

Seems like I mentioned these once before, but don't see them here, so:

The main street in Helena, Montana is Last Chance Gulch - named when some early day gold miners struck it rich just before they ended a fruitless journey.

Further south, in Dillon, MT, there's a Bloody Dick Road, named after an early English pioneer by the name of Richard (Dick) whose favorite expression was "bloody"!

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 02 Jul 02 - 02:26 PM

I was in the Pocono Mountains in Eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend and drove by an exit for Possumtown Road. There's a Frogtown Road in New Canaan, Ct. Maybe they're like BlueJay Way.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Mikey joe
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 09:58 AM

Is there not a road in southern England somewhere called 'Old Sluts Hole Lane' I'm sure I read about this in the newspaper a couple of years ago.

mj

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Hecate
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 10:18 AM

I knew a chap whose address was 69 Effingham road.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: John-S
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 01:24 PM

In Glasgow there's Spoutmouth and also Citizen Lane.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: GUEST,Just Amy
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 02:25 PM

My cousins live on Second North Street in Wellington, IL. USA. That is as opposed to 3rd North Street. (it is a really small town).

I live in Burbank, CA and we have a Bob Hope Drive which is an exit from the freeway. I love to tell people to "get off on Bob Hope."

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Phillip
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 02:59 PM

A couple of replies mention Slutwell Lane and Slutshole Road,I think it was, in England. There is also a Sluts Lane in East Anglia somewhere, which the residents wanted to change to something less insulting to them.

The "Slut" or "Sluts" part of these names is the dialect word slutch, which just means mud. So, Muddy Well Lane. Which sounds nicer really, doesn't it?

There is a hill over in the West Midlands called Stocking Hill. The owners of the house on the top of it called their house Stocking Top.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: GUEST,Captain Swing
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 04:13 PM

There was a story a few years ago that the council in Eastwood Nottinghamshire, the birth place of DH Lawrence, were going to rename some roads with reference to Lawrence's works.

Apparently this was very unpopular with the residents concerned. I can't really see why they should object to the likes of "Rainbow Cresent", "Chatterly Drive" or "Mellors Lane". I imagine the people living in "Cunt Close" would be a bit pissed off though!

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jul 02 - 11:29 AM

South of Cville somewhere... found while roaming around wondering where the road went: Secretary's Sand. Wonder whose secretary and what s/he did with the sand...?

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Nathan in Texas
Date: 05 Jul 02 - 10:25 PM

In Denton, Texas, there is a Ponder Street which intersects with Scripture street, so the street signs on the corner read "Ponder Scripture"

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: InOBU
Date: 06 Jul 02 - 09:21 AM

In Long Lisland NY, in a German neighborhood in the 30s there were Hitler, Borman and Gorbels streets, oviously changed in the fourties, but Brooklyn Union Gas did not change their records and continued to bill to the same, until the 1990s. Geezzzeee Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: John-S
Date: 06 Jul 02 - 12:44 PM

In Baillieston, Glasgow, Dyke Street runs into Camp Road.

Subject: RE: BS: Unusual Street/Road Names
From: Susan from California
Date: 06 Jul 02 - 08:51 PM

In Hemet, CA there's a neighborhood with Thisa Way, Thata Way and Whicha Way.