Weird British Road Names

"CRider" (crider) 05/21/2014 at 02:37 • Filed to: None

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Weird British road names

Svend > CRider 05/21/2014 at 02:47

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WARNING NOT SAFE FOR WORK WEB-LINK!

Check this page out for some eye opening ones.

http://www.strangehistory.net/2010/06/08/out…

One from my city Carlisle is Grapes Lane, its original name was Gropecun*lane.

Street names such as maiden Lane, etc... referred to where prostitutes would hang out.

The man in the iron mask > CRider 05/21/2014 at 04:30

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Off topic. But wise

CRider > The man in the iron mask 05/21/2014 at 04:41

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Get a bull, not a Great Dane?

The man in the iron mask > CRider 05/21/2014 at 05:26

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Hahah

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > CRider 05/21/2014 at 08:28

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There's stuff like this in every country I guess. I can't come up whit that many road names her in Norway, but we have small(ish) farms and/or villages with quite strange names like; Dritua (eastern Norwegian dialect and means diarrhea), Tasegtil (meaning something like "settle down", Mexico (a small place not far from me) and there's the place Homo (I'm quite sure that meant something completely else when that place was named though). And there's several places in Norway called Helvete (Norwegian for Hell).

And I guess everyone here knows about Penistone, but how many of you know that it's not a joke made up by top gear?

Steve Hopkinson > CRider 05/21/2014 at 11:44

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How about village names? This one was a couple of miles from my university.