Ominous sounding roads.

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SarahJ wrote:I guess the Love lane that I used to live in got its name from ladies of the night. It was between two warehouses
When I first read your post I misread the word "warehouses" :wink: :oops:
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Paul wrote:
Octaviadriver wrote:There's a Chemical Road in Morrison, Swansea that's a residential area and not on an industrial estate.
I see your Chemical Road and I raise you Industry Street in Walkley, Sheffield. All terraced houses, but overlooking factories in the valley below...
My ancestors lived in Chlorine Gardens, Belfast.
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FosseWay wrote:My ancestors lived in Chlorine Gardens, Belfast.
I notice that the next street along is Cloreen Park that appears to be a small business park. Did they change the spelling but keep the same phonetics so as not to put people off going there?
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Octaviadriver wrote:
FosseWay wrote:My ancestors lived in Chlorine Gardens, Belfast.
I notice that the next street along is Cloreen Park that appears to be a small business park. Did they change the spelling but keep the same phonetics so as not to put people off going there?
Quite possibly. Spelling it like that implies an Irish origin to the name, but I think the chemical element is a more likely derivation. The whole area along the Lagan valley to Lisburn was big in the linen trade for centuries (indeed, this is what my ancestors did) and chlorine is an essential ingredient in the bleaching process.
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Keep your wits about you before heading down Pickpocket Lane.
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Digging up this topic again because I've found a lovely sounding Break My Neck Lane above Penzance. It's only a track leading to Break My Neck Farm and I wonder how that name came about.
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Going down Incinerator Road to pick up a package from the Royal Mail depot is always off putting...
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Not really a road, but a sign which could be ominous to some...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Main+St ... 49,,2,1.88
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NITransport wrote:Not really a road, but a sign which could be ominous to some...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Main+St ... 49,,2,1.88
You'd think the sign on the other side of the road would have been vandalised more wittily, surely? :twisted:
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vlad wrote:
NITransport wrote:Not really a road, but a sign which could be ominous to some...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Main+St ... 49,,2,1.88
You'd think the sign on the other side of the road would have been vandalised more wittily, surely? :twisted:
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A8000Bob wrote:Rest and Be Thankful
Not so much ominous, but vaguely disgusting:

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ravenbluemoon wrote:There's "Labour In Vain Hill" on the A4 at Beckhampton, which always seemed a little ominous to me.
Nothing ominous there. Just means it's a safe Conservative seat. :laugh:
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I know it's not the proper name, but surely 'spaghetti junction' sounds ominous?
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There are at least 15 Rotten Rows according to Wikipedia.
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There"s Deadmans Lane which is apparently haunted?
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MJN wrote:A 2002 Philips street map of mine falsely shows Cut-Through Lane at University Park in Nottingham as Cut-Throat Lane. Hopefully not too many prospective students noticed, there was enough panic about the spate of gun crime etc at the time. :twisted:
my mum always calls it cut throat lane, as she remembers a news report about a girl getting her throat slashed down there when she was young (late 60s/70s). whether thats true or she's making it up I don't know.

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Hanging Green Lane, in Hest Bank, Lancs.
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Butts Wynd in St Andrews

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vlad wrote:
NITransport wrote:Not really a road, but a sign which could be ominous to some...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Main+St ... 49,,2,1.88
You'd think the sign on the other side of the road would have been vandalised more wittily, surely? :twisted:
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