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Strange street/alley names: Add yours
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JG70 | Report | 19 Oct 2005 16:08 |
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Sod House Green Elephant Terrace Dick Lane All West Yorkshire |
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Christina | Report | 19 Oct 2005 16:54 |
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In Sandwich, Kent - Holy Ghost Alley and Seven Post Alley and also No Name Street and Knightrider Street. |
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fraserbooks | Report | 19 Oct 2005 17:40 |
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Magpie Bottom more a district of Bristol reaLLY. Gipsy Patch lane |
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Andy | Report | 19 Oct 2005 17:43 |
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There's a Knightrider St in Maidstone as well. From when I was at Uni, there was a French Horn Lane in Hatfield, plus an Old French Horn Lane. |
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Joy *The Carlos Cutie of Ilson* | Report | 19 Oct 2005 17:45 |
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Deepsick Lane (somewhere near Chesterfield if I remember right). |
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Researching: |
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Yvonne | Report | 19 Oct 2005 18:31 |
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There is an Adams Bottom in Leighton Buzzard....... |
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David | Report | 19 Oct 2005 18:51 |
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There's a Pratt's Bottom in Orpington |
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Louise | Report | 19 Oct 2005 18:54 |
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My daughters always titter when we drive along Butt Lane, Mansfield. Louise |
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Linen | Report | 19 Oct 2005 19:15 |
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One of my cousins lives at Pratts Bottom. An uncle once lived in HA HA road, think it means ditch or boundary. Vivienne |
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Rachel | Report | 19 Oct 2005 19:22 |
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Near one of my friend is a place called Gypsy Lane |
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DAVE B | Report | 19 Oct 2005 19:29 |
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Frying Pan Alley E1 Old Fish Street Hill EC4 Ogle Street W1 and my favourite Cockpit Steps SW1 which is between Buckingham Palace and The Houses of Parliament. Davexx |
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Les | Report | 19 Oct 2005 19:57 |
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Two Ball Lonnon in Newcastle (a lonnon is a country lane) Louise Grieves Lane in Spondon Derby origionaly called Lousey Graves Lane as it lead to the local Lepers grave yard |
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Unknown | Report | 19 Oct 2005 20:28 |
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Two villages in Sussex - Upper Dicker and Lower Dicker, l think near Storrington!!! and Busticle Lane in Sompting Sussex:o) jude sarf wales :o) |
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Rosalind | Report | 19 Oct 2005 20:36 |
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Burnt Dick Hill in Boxted |
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Unknown | Report | 19 Oct 2005 20:38 |
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Rosalind - :o))))))))))))) lol |
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Haribo | Report | 19 Oct 2005 22:27 |
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Deadman Lane Elbow Lane Starving Street.............All in Herts |
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Haribo | Report | 19 Oct 2005 22:31 |
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Is that Gypsy Lane SW15 Lunar? I used to live there. |
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Jan | Report | 19 Oct 2005 22:44 |
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Is that Ha Ha Road, Woolwich Common, Vivienne? Jan x |
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Nick McMud | Report | 19 Oct 2005 22:46 |
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we've got a village in worcestershire called wyre piddle!! in upton upon severn there is a 'minge lane' say no more..........lol Nick |
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Unknown | Report | 19 Oct 2005 22:51 |
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A ha-ha is a ditch, used as a boundary on country estates, to stop cattle straying, but avoiding spoiling the view with a hedge or fence. Ha-ha denotes the surprise as you nearly fall into it! York has lots of good ones, including 'The Shambles' (which we now think of as a mess, but was actually a slaughterhouse) and Whipma-Whopma Gate (not sure of spelling). London's Balls Pond Road always makes me smile as I remember an old Tony Hancock sketch in which he is a bus conductor, and thinks about how he could have bettered himself if he'd learnt Latin and could call out 'Ballus Pondus Roadus' to the passengers! We have a Carters Lane near us, which is known locally - and its now acknowledged on the road sign - as Zigzag Lane. nell |
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