juvenal Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2567211/Want-snap-cheap-home-Look-no-Slag-Lane-Properties-rudely-named-streets-cheaper-people-embarrassed-live-there.html Nice comment there about an Irish town called Muff, where someone started a diving club... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
porca misèria Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Pick up a bargain in Gropecunt Lane? I used to think Pratt's Bottom would be a fine place to live. But apparently it's just dreary suburbia - how disappointing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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shindigger Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/property/organford/ Someone beat me to GropeCunt Lane. I went to junior school in a village called Sixpenny Handley. This used to to be known as Sexpenne et Henle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixpenny_Handley Though these are villages rather than streets, clearly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattW Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 I used to live near 'Hooker Road'. Nowhere near the red light district and property prices on that road were unaffected. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John51 Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Pick up a bargain in Gropecunt Lane? The former name of Threadneedle Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thecrashingisles Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Barratts should use some more inventive names on their developments - Shafted Avenue, Mugs Lane, Bayleafs Close. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
juvenal Posted February 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Pick up a bargain in Gropecunt Lane? So named because politicians were often molested there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blobloblob Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Nob End, Little Lever Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Liquid Goldfish Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 I wonder whether these figures are correct? Are they comparing like with like? If so I'd be more than happy to snatch a bargain. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Monkey Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Shaggs meadow in Lyndhurst Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Frank Hovis Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Cowsh1t Lane, Golant, Cornwall Is life more fun when you live on a street with a funny name? Maybe so. In Golant, a small village in southwest England, some residents dwell on a lovely little block called Cowshit Lane. “I live there and I have no objection to the name,” Golant Council Chairman Alistair Barr told the London Times recently. According to a Reuters report, the street’s name became an issue when Golant decided to draw up a map for the town’s visitors. Apparently, some people felt that Cowshit Lane would leave a dark stain on their village’s sunny image. They suggested renaming the road Cowslip Lane, but in the end, Golant’s residents decided to stick with the original. Resident and former Council Chairman Douglas Cooper told the Times, “I only wish I lived there, because I could put it on my headed notepaper.” http://www.salon.com/2000/06/01/england_3/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Knimbies who say No Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Dick Place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fromage Frais Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Sluts Hole Lane Norfolk https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Slutshole+Ln/@52.5268671,1.0692177,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47d9c4b2ac62d977:0x15c022ba73fca258 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomandlu Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Downing Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Patfig Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 back passage, a dark kinda place Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redwing Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 In the town I grew up in (St Ives, Cambs) there is a road called Pig Lane. But when a new police station was built there in the 1970s they decided to rename that part of the road Broad Leys. Unbelievable but true. Link Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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