carni 10,094 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 We had a little car ride in the country the other day and I saw these road signs within a mile from home and I thought they might amuse you! Have any of you Nottstalgians got any unusual road names near where you live? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 I don't think Nottingham can beat any of those. But slightly digressing, we have at least one road which had a song written about it (nearly). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 I regularly used to travel a road called Pocket Handkerchief Lane just outside Dinnington in Yorkshire. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 How about this one from Wollaston. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Carni (#1), there is a Cat and Fiddle Lane in West Hallam, Derbyshire. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Not a road name but a village name just over the A15 heading towards Bardney Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Whilst holidaying in North Yorkshire several years ago, I encountered the villages of Booze and Crackpot, and in Scotland, there is a village called Twatt. Very amusing. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 in Scotland, there is a village called Twatt. Very amusing. Drinking in a nearby hostelry could be a risky business, if addressing the local heavy one asks..."Where do you come from,Twatt?" It's not easy to point out the comma and question mark in everyday conversation. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Carni (#1), there is a Cat and Fiddle Lane in West Hallam, Derbyshire. It goes past the Cat & Fiddle Windmill! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,681 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 A few odd ones in Cornwall . In St. Ives : Virgin Street Salubrious Terrace Court Cocking Teetotal street In St Agnes there's a road called Stippy Stappy and in Truro there's this one : Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 370 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Priestpopple is a street in Hexham. Export Drive used to be a road name near where I live. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 There is a village called Dull in Perthshire, and up near Durham there is No Place. What amuses me is on the way through Norfolk down the A138 (I think) there are lots of road signs pointing down most roads for quite a stretch to Byway. Any foreign visitors must be left wondering where it is and why they never reach it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,088 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Used to amuse me by confusing people when I told them it only took me 30 minutes to get from New York to Boston by bicycle. Until I showed them a map of Lincolnshire. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 There is a passageway in St Andrews, called Butts Wynd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Limey (#9), I found this info regarding the windmill which I found interesting. The mill was built in 1788 and is a wooden post mill. This means that it has a stone roundhouse beneath a wooden box-like structure containing the machinery. The box rotated on a wooden post and had to be turned by hand by the miller so that the sails were correctly positioned to catch the wind. It is the only surviving post mill in Derbyshire and has recently undergone extensive renovation but remains in private ownership and is not open to the general public.Windmill can be seen from miles around and from the A6096 between Derby and Ilkeston.The mill is in good order. Date of Manufacture: 01/01/1788Purpose: MillingOpen to the public: noIs This Windmill Functional?: Yes! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Do yo know the area Michael? Dale Abbey was a favorite bike ride as a young lad! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Road near Barnet called Trotters Bottom. My favorite is a road in Hull "Land of Green Ginger". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 There was a photograph in one of the daily papers last year of a road sign with arrows pointing in opposite directions. One was to Ham and the other to Sandwich. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bramcote 2 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Ewe Lamb Lane in Bramcote where I was born has got to be up there! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mattsdigs 104 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Somewhat off thread but close enough. Does any one know why , and how, Lambley Dumbles became so named. My children love it but always ask what it means, and I cannot explain. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Limey (#16), Dale Abbey is a beautiful area that's full of history. Hagg Lane is the most unusual name that I can think of for this topic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Mattsdigs (#20), A Dumble is a steep sided, wooded valley created at the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago, by the ice melt forming streams that cut deep into the bedrock. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Lambley is famous for its ‘dumbles.’ A dumble being a local name for a shallow dale with a stream. D.H. Lawrence is reputed to have enjoyed walking the Lambley Dumbles. Googled this for you, i hope it helps. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mattsdigs 104 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Many thanks for that information. I had always thought that it was because of slag heaps from gedling Pit being dumped there. So , now well informed again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 When we lived in Billinghay, Lincolnshire there was a road called Labour in Vain Drove. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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