Spankers Lane , Derbyshire

[polystyle]

You live where ? Silly stuff, but it's Friday so ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html

 

[IdleRich]

"a country that delights in lavatory humor, particularly if the word “bottom” is involved"

I find that characterisation rather offensive.

 

[crackerjack]

Know a girl from the Irish village of Muff.

 

[IdleRich]

Quite a common one but more of a single entendre really:

This tenement lay in Cheapside between Gropecunt Lane to the W., 105/1-3 to the E., and St. Pancras church to the S. It had a frontage of some 25 ft. (7.62 m.) and a length N.-S. of nearly 125 ft. (38.10 m.). A shop, probably occupying part of the frontage, was held separately from the rest of 39 in the later 13th century but had been united with it by the mid 14th. It is possible that there was a connection between this shop and 105/1, 3 shops in front of 105/2, which were in the same ownership as 145/39 from the later 13th century.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=5045

 

[matt b]

i was going to suggest penistone.

how about scunthorpe?

 

[STN]

there is a village in wales known as Pant Y Stain.

When I worked at TV Licensing I found about five cottages called Bell End.

 

[viktorvaughn]

Carsick hill in Sheffield I think?

Knob end near Bolton or Rochdale.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Time to wheel out the big guns...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt,_Shetland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt,_Orkney
http://www.prattsbottom.co.uk/
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.s...+[Town]&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf
http://www.city-data.com/city/Humptulips-Washington.html
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?...N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.s...illage]&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf

Damn, been beaten to Nob End and Bell End. Well I actually went to the trouble of providing maps!

 

[viktorvaughn]

Quite a common one but more of a single entendre really:



http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=5045

Used to be where prostitutes would solicit clients I think?

 

[IdleRich]

"When I worked at TV Licensing I found about five cottages called Bell End."

When Man City were naming the end of their stadium they threw it open to the public to name it and its various parts. A movement to name one stand - after former player Colin Bell - as the Bell End was actually the most popular but was vetoed by the powers that be. After protests about democracy they settled for the Bell Stand or something.

 

[Tentative Andy]

Titty Ho, in Northants., sounds rather like it should be the name of crunk track.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Used to be where prostitutes would solicit clients I think?

Gropecunt Lanes are attested to in several mediaeval towns in Britain, I think it was quite a common term for red light districts generally.

 

[IdleRich]

"Used to be where prostitutes would solicit clients I think?"

Yeah, that's what I meant by single entendre - it's not an "amusing coincidence" like the river piddle or something but a fairly common old name for a red light district - now most lanes with that name have of course been sanitised.