Where People Lived before Political Correctness

In my travels I have actually come across a few of these wonderful street names, pausing a while to take a photograph or just laughing uncontrollably after speaking them out aloud a few times. Have a look through this list which is by no means exhaustive on the subject and see if any are in your home area.

    

     ·   Back Passage

·        Bad Bargain Lane
·        Bag Lane
·        Balls Road
·        Balls Street
·        Bell End
·        Beaver Close
·        Bellenden Gardens *
·        Bent Lane
·        Bitchams Mead
·        Bonar Place
·        Bordom Hill
·        Bottom Street
·        Bugger End
·        Bummers Hill
·        Bulcock Street
         Burn Butts
·        Butt Lane
·        Butts Court
·        Butts Street

    ·    Cackle Street

·        Cake Street
·        Chavey Down Road
·        Cock Lane
·        Cockburn Street
·        Cockshot Road
·        Cracknuts Lane
·        Crapple Lane
·        Crazy Lane
·        Crotch Crescent


·        Der Lane
·        Dicky Lane
·        Droop Street
·        Dumber Lane
·        Dyke Close

    ·    Faggots Close

·        Fartown
·        Fanny Street
·        Fishey Lane
·        Flapper Fold Lane
·        Football Green
         Frying Pan Alley

·        Gay Street
·        Green Dicks Lane
·        Gropers Lane

    ·     Happy Land

·        Hoare Road
·        Holebottom


·        Itchin Close

    ·     Knob Lane

     ·   Lady Gardens

·        Land of Green Ginger
         Land of Nod
·        Leg of Mutton Road
·        Lickers Lane
·        Little Shambles
·        Loonies Court

     ·   Mad Alice Lane

·        Magazine Road
·        Manlove Street
·        Messines Close
·        Mincing Lane
·        Minge Lane
·        Mouthey’s Lane
·        My Lord's Road

·        Nameplate Close
·        Nickey Nackey Lane
·        No Name Street
·        Nutter Lane
·        Nutter Street

·        Pant-y-Pistyll
         Paraffin Alley
·        Petty France
·        Piddle Lane
·        Porridge Pot Alley
·        Potto Street
·        Pratt's Folly Lane

·        Road
·        Robert's Passage
         Rotten Row
         Rotenheryn Staithe

     ·   Scratchface Lane

·        Shagg Hill
·        Shaggs Meadow
·        Silly Lane
·        Slag Lane
·        Slappers Hill
·        Smack Alley
·        Smellies Lane
·        Sodom Lane
·        Spital Road
·        Squeeze Guts Alley

     ·   Tarmac Road

          The Knob
·        The Shutt
·        Tickle Avenue
·        Tomtits Lane
·        Tongue Lane
·        Tony Burns Gardens
          Trash Lane
·        Trollope Street
·        Trump Street

     ·    Vaggs Lane

     ·   Warning Tongue Lane

·        Wash Lane
·        Weevil Lane
·        Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate
·        Willey Street

    ·    Zig Zag Lane