Street names

Just been thinking back of some of the weirdest street/ road names I’ve encountered. At the risk of being banned for twelve months I’ve put one English and one French.
This one in St Junien (87) I used to walk along most days.

This one from Great Yarmouth, no photo downloadable unfortunately. It’s called ,

LAUGHING IMAGE CORNER

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I’ve deleted the photograph, but there’s a small street in Mondeville, Caen, near the Campanile Hotel, called L’Impasse de l’Europe. Fitting.

I lived near here when I was young and also have a cousin with the family name Prat…he changed it.

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I used to have to thru’ Anerley to get to friends who lived in Elmer’s End
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Dick place in Edinburgh, Lovers Loan in Dollar and I have friends who live in Crotch Crescent in Oxford.

On the outskirts of Bristol
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South of Bristol, a name I particularly like, typical west country
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Given my name I was quite tickled to find that I have been honoured in Leicester.
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I was less pleased when I realised I was considered a bit of a dead end…

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Unlike the gin-and-Jag lot up in Surrey who changed the name of Pisslake to Peaselake, the yeomen of Dorset are happpy with the original Saxon
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Some pretty strange LD names as well round here:
Not sure I would want to live in a house called La Femme Morte.

Meanwhile in Worcestershire (curtsey of Google Maps) they even point the way to a Piddle

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Thanks Paul.

and there are Twatts in Scotland :slightly_smiling_face:

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Two from God’s county

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Hornyold Road, Malvern.

Scratchy Bottom - imagine giving this address to officials. :joy:

No photo but there is a much maligned sign over the Charente border between Nontron and Angouleme. Ars.

We’ve got an Ars just north of Aubusson

I do so hope that this is a real street name where Yorkshire Police are:

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Seems that it is