# Silliest Street Names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 7, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469 "2000-08-07T20:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/21 "2000-08-08T13:12:16Z")
but as we drove through Doncaster, I turned the car around and had to go back to get a picture. The people I was with had no idea why I was delaying our journey, until they saw the signs for Butt Hole Road. I have the picture outside my cubicle now…people can’t believe that it’s real… ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/22 "2000-08-08T13:53:12Z")
There’s a “Ragged Ass Road” up in either Whitehorse or Yellowknife (I can never remember which one). ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/23 "2000-08-08T13:55:20Z")
In Brooklyn, there is a New Utrecht Avenue and an Old New Utretcht Avenue. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/24 "2000-08-08T14:23:31Z")
There’s a road in Raleigh called “Barefoot Industrial Road.” However, there is a sign there that is misspelled: “Barefoot Industr **ai** l Road.” How’s that for stupid? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/25 "2000-08-08T14:35:21Z")
There used to be a street in the centre of London called **Gropecunt Lane** , because of the occupation of the majority of the residents. I believe it was renamed in the 1800s. There was also recently a story about an unidentified joker who sent the Ordnance Survey (the leading map-making organisation in the UK) a letter confirming that a police station on a newly-built road near Sheffield was located on **Letsby Avenue**. The letter was on South Yorkshire Police headed paper, so the Ordnance Survey duly included it on their maps. _Don’t believe me? Just search the web for “Ordnance Survey” and “Letsby Avenue”._ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/26 "2000-08-08T15:44:24Z")
A few blocks down from where I grew up in Chapel Hill, NC, there was the intersection of Tinkerbell and Manly. 😕 About 5 miles north of the NC border on Hwy. 17 out of SC, there’s a Desert Storm Lane. Jeez. ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/27 "2000-08-08T16:03:49Z")
In Arlington, Texas there’s a street named - get this - Chip N Dale. Not Chippendale. Chip N Dale. As in the Disney chipmunks, gophers, moles, whatever. I would be embarrassed to give that as my address. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/28 "2000-08-08T16:11:15Z")
In Solano County, California, there used to be a country road that intersected Highway 12 called “Explosive Technology Road”. It got renamed a few years ago, to something more mundane. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/29 "2000-08-08T16:14:22Z")
Along a stretch of the 15 going from L.A. to Las Vegas, towards the middle (where it’s all desert), there is a street called “Zyzzx St.”. It’s the weirdest thing. No vowels, and the it happens to make use of the last 3 letters in the alphabet. Erie! ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/30 "2000-08-08T16:24:17Z")
> [@](#): > > There used to be a street in the centre of London called Gropecunt Lane Matt, it actually evolved into the more familiar “Grub Street”. And Neutron, Live Oak is the common designation for the species _Quercus wislizenii_, it doesn’t mean “undead” oak, per se. ---
**Author:** ![momerath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@momerath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/momerath)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/31 "2000-08-08T17:00:59Z")
Just outside Woodstock, GA, there’s Old Boring Lane. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/32 "2000-08-08T17:18:53Z")
Near me are a few doozies… Beaver Ruin Road Scufflegrit Road And we have a Hurt Road, too, which isn’t so bad, except that there is also a South Hurt Road, that on the roadsign was abbreviated to So Hurt Road, until they changed it. We also have a South Park. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/33 "2000-08-08T17:56:52Z")
There’s a Skipper Bowles Road on the UNC campus, but the Durham/Chapel Hill street map spells it Skipper _Bowels_ Road. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/34 "2000-08-08T18:44:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \* > \*\*There’s a Skipper Bowles Road on the UNC campus, but the Durham/Chapel Hill street map spells it Skipper _Bowels_ Road. \*\* Damn! I forgot all about that one. As long as we’ve got a UNC-CH thing happening, what about Gimghoul Dr. (With of course, Gimghoul Castle at the end of it). ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/35 "2000-08-08T18:57:40Z")
I remember seeing something about a Bullshit road in England somewhere, or maybe it was Cow shit can’t remember now. but as a Cartographer you get to see all sorts of names. I guess some of the developers are becoming more and more in need of names and have taken to using characters from books. I’ve seen them for Peter Pan and for Robin Hood, imagine living on Tinkerbell Way or something like that! ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/36 "2000-08-08T19:01:22Z")
When I lived in England, I stayed in a town in Surrey called Dorking. Not quite as good as Gropecunt, but funny to me all the same. MR ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/37 "2000-08-08T19:04:18Z")
Well, here in LA they’re renaming a street from “Clinton Dr.” to “Bill Clinto Dr.”. I don’t know about any other fellow Los Angeles peoples, but I want to steal that sign and use it in a burnt sacrifice. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/38 "2000-08-08T21:11:13Z")
> [@](#): > > I remember seeing something about a Bullshit road in England somewhere, or maybe it was Cow shit can’t remember now. That was Cowshit Lane. Recently some people were trying to get the name changed, but the locals decided to keep it as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/39 "2000-08-08T21:29:24Z")
Here in my little town, we have a plethora of strange road names. Creepy Hollow Road Shackleford Pits Road Truelove Lane Hells Creek Road ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469/40 "2000-08-09T03:56:17Z")
I was driving around Raleigh today, where one of the main roads is called Six Forks Road, which seems a reasonable enough name to me. I learned today, however, that nearby there is also a Six Knives Road, and a Six Spoons Road. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-street-names/28469.md?page=3)