Road, Street, Lane Names.

Squeeze Gut Alley in Whitstable.

We have a Slash Lane (white floods at the first sign of rain) and we also have Flesh Hovel Lane.

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Nanato3

Casdon

While we were in Budleigh Salterton on holiday last autumn, we walked down a road called Inner Ting Tong! I did think that was lovely, it stuck in my mind.

I wonder if there is an Outer Ting Tong 🤔

I know of a Water Lane, don't fancy living there .

I used to live on a Water Lane. It never flooded while we were there but we did have a small river at the bottom of a very long garden.

We have a Love Lane near us.

We have a Watery Lane.
And a Bullyhole Bottom
Years ago I used to push a pram up a very steep Drunken Bridge Hill.

Kate1949

We have an Electric Avenue. I must rock down there one day.

I know of a row of shops in a place called Electric Parade. One can fantasise about what goes on there.

Christmas Pie nr Guildford.

When I was a child we often used to drive through a place called Six Mile Bottom, I used to giggle every time.

When I had my windscreen replaced I had to go to Windscreens Avenue.

A road in our nearest city is called Little Paradise.
It might have been so once.

As a child I lived near Beacon Bottom, it raised a snigger

We have an Electric Avenue. I must rock down there one day.

We have a Poorhole Lane.
Near Maidstone there is a village called Loose. I had a friend who declared herself proud to be a Loose woman. Her mother was mortified.

Well I know of a Honeypot Lane.

There is a street in Abingdon called Picklers Hill. What I like is that there is a house there called Pan Yan!
In the Banbury area there is Creampot Lane, I wonder if there is a sugar bowl somewhere!

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Nanato3

Casdon

While we were in Budleigh Salterton on holiday last autumn, we walked down a road called Inner Ting Tong! I did think that was lovely, it stuck in my mind.

I wonder if there is an Outer Ting Tong 🤔

I know of a Water Lane, don't fancy living there .

Yes, there is an Outer Ting Tong in Budleigh too. It's where the two roads meet, the word Ting is derived from an old word for hill.
Watch out for the sharp bends and high Devon Banks there! 🚗

Alternatively, the Ting element could be derived form "Thing", which was a form of medieval meeting place/council. The English Place Name Society suggests the Tong element (in the Yorkshire Tong) could be either a river-fork (cognate with tongs) or a spit of land.

Aha,so like a sort of fort where the council met?
Usually on higher ground?

Nanato3

Casdon

While we were in Budleigh Salterton on holiday last autumn, we walked down a road called Inner Ting Tong! I did think that was lovely, it stuck in my mind.

I wonder if there is an Outer Ting Tong 🤔

I know of a Water Lane, don't fancy living there .

I used to live on a Water Lane. It never flooded while we were there but we did have a small river at the bottom of a very long garden.

We have a Love Lane near us.

Ugley in Essex. The Ugley Women's Institute changed it's name to the "Women's Institute (Ugley branch)".

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Nanato3

Casdon

While we were in Budleigh Salterton on holiday last autumn, we walked down a road called Inner Ting Tong! I did think that was lovely, it stuck in my mind.

I wonder if there is an Outer Ting Tong 🤔

I know of a Water Lane, don't fancy living there .

Yes, there is an Outer Ting Tong in Budleigh too. It's where the two roads meet, the word Ting is derived from an old word for hill.
Watch out for the sharp bends and high Devon Banks there! 🚗

Alternatively, the Ting element could be derived form "Thing", which was a form of medieval meeting place/council. The English Place Name Society suggests the Tong element (in the Yorkshire Tong) could be either a river-fork (cognate with tongs) or a spit of land.

I like Bread & Cheese Hill (Thundersley, Essex) and Kattenhoek ("Cats' Corner") in Zelzate, Belgium.

Hellogirl Squeezy Belly, and I'm not fat either! If the bins are out, no chance!

Tall Trees Place, near where I live, love that name.

Sorry. Wrong side of the river! I meant Port Isaac.

I can`t remember where it was, but many years ago we saw a (very) narrow street somewhere in Cornwall, called Squeezy Belly Alley.
That's Padstow. You need to breathe in.

Here’s a local one to me, visited by The Inbetweeners a few years ago.

Nanato3

Casdon

While we were in Budleigh Salterton on holiday last autumn, we walked down a road called Inner Ting Tong! I did think that was lovely, it stuck in my mind.

I wonder if there is an Outer Ting Tong 🤔

I know of a Water Lane, don't fancy living there .

Yes, there is an Outer Ting Tong in Budleigh too. It's where the two roads meet, the word Ting is derived from an old word for hill.
Watch out for the sharp bends and high Devon Banks there! 🚗

There used to be a road outside our town called Goosemuck Lane, I would have loved it as my address, but due to demands from new house owners, it was changed to something more "normal".
I can`t remember where it was, but many years ago we saw a (very) narrow street somewhere in Cornwall, called Squeezy Belly Alley.
A new housing estate next to us is called The Featherworks, due to being built on land that was occupied by a quilt and pillow making factory.