Bizarre street names, challenge!

[661-Pete]

Another odd one. Tiepigs Lane, Hayes (Kent). Used to cycle along it often, years ago, when my fiancée (now Mrs. P) lived in Chislehurst. Not very interesting. I doubt if swine flu came from there.

 

[rh100]

Here is some from the Discworld for Pratchett fans

 

[661-Pete]

Alarming rather than amusing. Rabies Heath Road, Bletchingley. Nevertheless, quite safe to visit (I have cycled along it! ). I think the name is actually a corruption of "Rabbits".

 

[brokenbetty]

There's a suburb of Newcastle called Spital Tongues - I used to live there

 

[terry huckle]

I used to enjoy walking up Down Street in London, almost as much as walking down Down Street. Bit of London trivia, there`s a disused tube station halfway up/down it.

 

[Tollers]

In Perth, there is a "Needless Road" and a "Titty Ho" near Wellingborough

 

[Will1985]

Cut throat lane - I recognise that, have we TT'ed on it?

Yes - K36/10

More likely a few barbers, I'd say

Logical explanation, until you see the road (about 2km long) which has just one farm on and nothing else....this place is in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Kestevan]

I used to live in Totties, Holmfirth.

 

[albal]

Shitterton, in Bere Regis..... that's the name of the street/lane/road.!!!

 

[BrumJim]

Birmingham has Needless Alley, and A.B. Row (or used to - might have disappeared now).

Leicester has "Holy Bones" and, specially for Fnaar, Cottagers Close.

 

[Headgardener]

An unusual one is Bell Holloway in Northfield, Birmingham. Which used to connect with Bell lane behind the old Bell Inn on the Bristol Road.

 

[CharlieB]

I used to enjoy walking up Down Street in London, almost as much as walking down Down Street. Bit of London trivia, there`s a disused tube station halfway up/down it.

…which allegedly and unconfirmedly is the surface access point to a nuclear shelter for senior government members etc. Also unconfirmedly has a foot tunnel to Westminster and Downing Street.

But I digress…
We have a Broomstick Lane near me…
…which leads to Witches Hat Lane.

 

[Amanda P]

I wonder who'd buy a house in Bad Bargain Lane?

Not a street, but a one-street village: New York, Nidderdale.

Now imagine Sinatra singing it...

 

[Fnaar]

Birmingham has Needless Alley, and A.B. Row (or used to - might have disappeared now).

Leicester has "Holy Bones" and, specially for Fnaar, Cottagers Close.

 

[Arch]

I wonder who'd buy a house in Bad Bargain Lane?

One of my student days landladies did, she lived there. She was a hard cow. They started to extend our house before we'd moved out, to fit another bedroom in, by dint of building over the entire garden. At one point, the builders were running their cement mixer off our electricity.

The mad thing is, four girls, end of their first year, came to look round and signed up for the next year, before the extension was actually finished....