I don’t know if any other countries suffer from this phenomenom, but well in UK there are a lot of street names with double entendres or plain out rude meanings (mostly due to evolution of language and changing meanings of words).
Like there is a place in UK called Scunthorpe, which isn’t actually rude, but it gets banned by a lot of basic word filters due to a word in the midst of it.
I saw an interesting article funnily enough on https://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk
Spital-in-the-street is usually the butt of schoolboy jokes, but the oddly named village has found fame in the pages of a new book.
Rude Britain is a 100-long list of the country’s most double entendre-riddled towns, villages and streets. North Lincolnshire’s entry slipped in at number 69, sandwiched between Snatchup in Hertfordshire, and Shingay cum Wendy, Buckinghamshire.
I’ve actually seen quite a few of these myself, as I’ve been to Minge Lane, it’s not far from my house and Menlove Avenue is one of the main roads in Liverpool (At least it’s not Boylove Avenue eh?).
You might not get some of them, as a lot are English slang swear words like Minge, Twat Bell-end and Muff.
If you aren’t sure of some of the meanings, you can ask me or just look it up in Urban Dictionary[/url].
Here is the full list:
100 Jeffries Passage, Surrey
99 Prince Albert Court, Surrey
98 Nork Rise, Surrey
97 Brown Willy, Cornwall
96 Great Tosson, Northumberland
95 Trump Street, London
94 St. Mellons, Cardiff
93 Percy Passage, London
92 Booty Lane, North Yorkshire
91 Nether Wallop, Hampshire
90 Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
89 Mudchute, London
88 Juggs Close, East Sussex
87 Cockermouth Green, Newcastle
86 Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire
85 Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk
84 Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
83 Titlington Mount, Northumberland
82 Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
81 Hooker Road, Norwich
80 Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
79 Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
78 Ugley, Essex
77 Pratts Bottom, Kent
76 Ramsbottom Lane, Greater Manchester
75 Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
74 Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
73 Upper Dicker, East Sussex
72 Swell, Somerset
71 Bladda, Paisley
70 Snatchup, Hertfordshire
69 Spital in the Street, Lincolnshire
68 Shingay cum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
67 Pump Alley, Middlesex
66 Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
65 Long Lover Lane, Halifax
64 East Breast, Inverclyde
63 Dicks Mount, Suffolk
62 Staines , Surrey
61 Crapstone, Devon
60 Three Cocks, Powys
59 Feltwell, Norfolk
58 Pant, Shropshire
57 Balls Cross, West Sussex
56 Ogle Close, Merseyside
55 Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
54 North Piddle, Worcestershire
53 Mincing Lane, London
52 Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
51 Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
50 Winkle Street, Southampton
49 Wham Bottom Lane, Lancashire
48 Upperthong, West Yorkshire
47 Tosside, Lancashire
46 The Furry, Cornwall
45 Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
44 Lickers Lane, Merseyside
43 Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
42 Boghead, Ayrshire
41 The Bush, Buckinghamshire
40 Hill o’Many Stanes, Scotland
39 Grope Lane, Shropshire
38 Willey, Warwickshire
37 Happy Bottom, Dorset
36 Feltham Close, Hampshire
35 The Knob, Oxfordshire
34 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
33 Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
32 Crotch Cresent, Oxfordshire
31 Blairmuckhole & Forestdyke road, Lanarkshire
30 Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
29 Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
28 Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
27 Pork Lane, Essex
26 Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
25 Wetwang, East Yorkshire
24 Scratchy Bottom, Dorset
23 Swallow Passage, London
22 Lickey End, Worcestershire
21 Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
20 Spanker Lane, Derbyshire
19 Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
18 Lickfold, West Sussex
17 Dick Court, Lanarkshire
16 Beaver Close, Surrey
15 Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
14 Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
13 Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
12 Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
11 Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire,
10 Slag Lane, Merseyside
9 Shitterton, Dorset
8 Back Passage, London
7 Fingringhoe, Essex
6 Muff, Northern Ireland
5 Sandy Balls, Hampshire
4 Twatt, Orkney
3 Bell End, Birmingham
2 Minge Lane, Worcestershire
1 Cocks, Cornwall
I’m surprised Shepards Bush wasn’t in there somewhere. I’ll have to look up the meaning of Prince Albert Court … have no idea why the English would find that funny! (Unless it is a reference to a part of Queen Victoria or something!)
I read them to my mother (who is English) who tried to explain that they aren’t rude! Pppptttthhhh!
Hope my brother Jeffrey knows about his passage though!
Probably because if you mention Prince Albert people think of only one thing..
Prince Albert Rings
There’s a book out on the list plus pictures of the signs. Somemore, there’s a list of ‘Rudest Place Names in Europe’ published in FHM once. There’s one ‘F**kville’ or something.
There’s a town (village?) in Austria named Fucking. It’s true. I heard tourists go there and steal their signs so they have to wire it or something.
Where are you from?
Fucking!
😀
Not to forget that cosy little Japanese restaurant called Fukmi.
Do you reckon the twins in that Austin Powers movie (I think it was Goldmember) live in Austria? Fook Mi & Fook Yu, from F**king, Austria. LOL
I thought “Middlesex” sound pretty rude all by itself.
lol
I can imagine someone introducing themselves,
“I was born in Mudchute, then moved to Crotch Crescent but now i’m doing sales in Slag Lane.”
Hrmm… i wonder if there are any purely Malaysian examples of this kinda thing… *ponder*
What about Batang Benar..or batang Berjuntai??
LOL if that were the case, would Essex be rude when pronounced with an emphasis on the first syllable?
Don’t forget Maidenhead, Kent. Ok, that’s not strictly rude, but it’s not a subject many people would discuss, I don’t think…
Malaysia got Batang Berjuntai….
What about the village of Fingringhoe just outside of Colchester? and then theres Assington near Sudbury there are a lot more villages with similar names out there. :p
tis cus a prince albert is a co*k piercing lol =)
I’m surprised that Ticklecock Bridge in Castleford Yorks is not in the list, in view of the publicity when the council tried to “clean up” the name
Surprised Butthole Lane isn’t on here:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/216726
There’s a cockclod street in Radcliffe and an area of Bolton called Knob End.
What about Raw Dykes Road, Leicester?
There’s a Slutshole Lane near Attleborough, Norfolk. I pulled over once to look at a map, glanced to my right and there is was, in all it’s glory…