Places wiv funny names innit

SamWise1972

Someone I know is getting married in this town:

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asprilla

oscarbudgie wrote:

Today plain Magpie Lane in Oxford, but to previous generations Gropecunt Lane

Pretty much any street called Grape would previously have been called Gropecunt. They were sensibly named after the activities that took place there, but the victorians got a little prudish about it, for some reason.

stickman

Asprilla wrote:

oscarbudgie wrote:

Today plain Magpie Lane in Oxford, but to previous generations Gropecunt Lane

Pretty much any street called Grape would previously have been called Gropecunt. They were sensibly named after the activities that took place there, but the victorians got a little prudish about it, for some reason.

Moronic language racism - it was the normal Anglo-Saxon word for vagina.

rjsterry

I have a bit of a thing for etymology, so couldn't resist.

http://www.polysyllabic.com/?q=node/77

The other possibility is that the, ahem, trade had moved to new premises, rendering the street name misleading.

the_hundredth_idiot

I was going to mention Wetwang (always made me snigger when I was going up to Rosedale Abbey as a teenager for a weekend's hiking).
Ditto Penistone.
Last time I passed through Cocks in Cornwall the street sign had been stolen (but my map book was clear)
I'm from Scunthorpe (originally) so I can say with some authority that the Scunthorpe version of the "Who put the heart in Hartlepool?" is a reasonable question to pose.

So, ladeeez un gennleman, I'm having to resort to Upper Dicker

rolf_f

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

I was going to mention Wetwang (always made me snigger when I was going up to Rosedale Abbey as a teenager for a weekend's hiking).
Ditto Penistone.
Last time I passed through Cocks in Cornwall the street sign had been stolen (but my map book was clear)
I'm from Scunthorpe (originally) so I can say with some authority that the Scunthorpe version of the "Who put the heart in Hartlepool?" is a reasonable question to pose.D

Always seems an opportunity missed not to twin Penistone with Scunthorpe but maybe that's just me

Finbar Saunders

Horton-cum-Studley in Oxford which is right next to Studley Wood.

Just off the A2 in Kent, near Bluewater, is a place called Thong. A little further from the A2, using the same exit is a place called Chalk. So the sign on the Motorway for that exit says
Thong
Chalk
That's some serious chaffing if you need to chalk your thong before putting it on!