Worst street names of History. (WARNING - GREAT VULGARITY)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

From medieval London

Pissing Lane
Shiteburn Lane
....and the worst name for a street ever - Gropecunt Lane.

[eyesroll]

1. Do any of these streets intersect?

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. HAHAHaa!!!!

Meet me at the corner of Pissing-Gropecunt! :bounce:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. The Great Fire of London in 1666 was started at Pudding Lane, famously.

Pudding Lane was named that because that's where the public latrines where. Get it?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. I think that's the idea.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. You made me google, and...

it appears this is true.

Apparently, it was a common name for streets where whores tended to hang out in several English cities.

The question is-- was this an official name, or just the local slang for the street? Nobody seems to have actually found the original Gropecunt Lane, but the present Threadneedle St. is the most interesting possibility. Maiden Lane is another.

FWIW,one town out in western Joisey had to rename the dirt road popularly known as "Pigshit Alley" when they paved it and they had to actually have a name for it on maps.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. It was in official thirteenth century records under that name.

So I think it was official. Can't be sure of course, though. I found it in 'London: The Biography' by Peter Ackroyd.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. According to the book, it's Maiden Lane in Southwark.

Southwark was an unregulated community outside the walls of London, so that makes sense.

[Fenris]

6. Oddly enough there was a convent on Gropecunt Lane

And let me say for the record that those stories are grossly exaggerated.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Not always. There's a few records of such activities.

Medieval perverts.

[Fenris]

10. Did you hear the one about the nun and the pardoner?

Tithes, indeed!

[Lefty48197]

7. Nixon Rd. in Ann Arbor, MI. Intersects with Bluitt.

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[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Historically, London has always had a really wild side.

Back in the early eighteenth century, one of the major spectator sports was topless women racing.

[Fenris]

12. Was that around the time of the city's gin addiction?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Yes. It was between 4000 BC and the present day.

So, yes.

[Fenris]

16. Ah, yes, the neolithic gin vats of Essex.

Quite the tourist trap now.

[MadcityRock]

13. Corner of Hooker & Pleasure in Maple Bluff

Maple Bluff is a mansion-home tax island village within Madison's boundaries. No pudding at that intersexion, however.

[eyesroll]

17. Sunny day, keeping the clouds away...

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Shiteburn Lane?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. One day, my dad says,if he works hard and long

He's gonna build us a big house on Shiteburn lane.

[eyesroll]

20. Well, see, my dad is better than your dad.

He's going to build us a big house on the cul-de-sac on Gropecunt.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. How touching.

[eyesroll]

23. And there will be a balcony overlooking Pissing Lane.

It's quite nice.

[KamaAina]

19. Pe'epe'e St., Way, etc., Hilo, Hawai'i

right near Pe'epe'e Falls, natch.

The 'okina (') is a consonant in the Hawaiian language, pronounced as a glottal stop (like in "uh-oh").

However, old-time county road signs were made without the 'okinas...

[Bossy Monkey]

22. A few miles from here is John Edward St; I keep meaning to go cross over

Dangit; I hate it when there isn't room to write n/t :)