Exotic street names?

Question

There's a street in Hull called The Land of Green Ginger. Is that the strangest street-name in Britain, or does anyone know a better candidate for the title?

Answer 1

There is (or was) a street in London called Honeypot Lane. That sounds pretty prosaic until you realise that "honeypot" was an Elisabethan term for p*ssy and it was originally a street full of brothels.

Answer 2

This is the name of a book by Noel Langley, who was born in south Africa.

He died in California USA in 1980 and was worldly famous, so was this street build in the 1980's?

The book Land of green Ginger was written in 1936, later it was re-written for a new edition in 1966, and again in about 1975.

Most consider the 1966 edition to be the best.

In 1965, New York radio station WBAI recorded and broadcast Langley reading this story.

"The land of Green Ginger", it all begins in the city of Peking (in ancient China) and with the birth of a son and heir to the Emperor Aladdin. AAAHH! Yes the Aladdin, son of the awful Widow Twankey.

Is there a Langley road nearby too?
Or maybe other roads nearby were also named after plays he wrote or his books.

This is an interesting street name, but must be dedicated to the book and perhaps there is a local link.

Answer 3

The Land of Green Ginger (Hull, East Yorkshire) is one of the oldest street names in England; it is recorded at least as far back as the middle ages. A market garden and ginger preserving workshop on the site may have given rise to the name. Noel Langley and Winifred Holtby took inspiartion form it for their books. Alan Plater and others have been inspired to use the name for their films.

Answer 4

My two favourites are Cutthroat Lane in Norfolk and Featherbed Lane in Somerset. Though the Land of Green ginger is still the strangest

Answer 5

Garden of Eden, just off the A2 in a little village called Eden, 3 miles north of Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. It's actually a cul-de-sac of not nore than 10 houses.

If my memory serves me well, the Graden of Eden has very little in terms of pleasant views to commend it - notably a powerstation with the ecologically unsound name of Kilroot.

Answer 6

I used to hear all sorts of street names when working in a callcentre, the one that stands out is Pudding Pie lane, it's not exotic but it sounds like a lovely place to live!

Answer 7

There is a place where the diamond dealers do business just off Hatton Garden called (BLEEDING HEART YARD) and another near the barracks in WOOLWICH called(HA HA ROAD) ALL IN LONDON.

Answer 8

Street leading to a Church cemetery near Rock Ledge Alabama is called "Dead End"

Answer 9

Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate and Elbow Lane in York

Answer 10

that is strange! but wouldn't it be cool to be able to say when asked where you live, I live in the land of green ginger! lol