OT - Quaint Names (town, street, etc.)

[PixMan]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a town bearing the official name of "Manchester-By-The-Sea".

Near me is a section of East Brookfield that has long been referred to as "Podunk", and that was long before the town was incorporated as the newest town in The Commonwealth (c.a. 1920) and before an old newspaper comic strip made the moniker represent an ignorant backwoods community.

Over in Brookfield, part of the pre-Revolutionary Quaboag Plantation is one of the oldest named and populated (by white settlers) streets, still known as "Devil's Elbow Road".

[ammcoman2]

In between Pickering and Toronto, Finch Ave is connected to Old Finch Ave by "Plug Hat Rd." It then becomes Finch Ave again!

Geoff

[Stuart Br]

Not so quaint...

A large number of medieval English Cities had streets named Gropec*nt Lane, where not surprisingly the ladies of the night plied their trade. None remain today after gradual cleaning up of street names over the centuries.

[danlb]

I once lived on Glendale street. It is either redundant or an oxymoron or both all by itself:

glen: Noun: A narrow valley.
dale: Noun: A valley, esp. a broad one.

So the street was named after a broad narrow valley. Or a valley valley. Or....

Either way it's weird

Dan

[Stuart Br]

Wotton-Under-Edge

Wotton is a very common English place name. I grew up in one, not the "Under-Edge" one though. It is believed to be derived from the Saxon
"Wudetun" meaning the enclosure, homestead or village (tun) in or near the wood (wude).

As for Under-Edge, you only have to go there, it is a town located beneath the very steep edge of the Cotswold hills as they drop off into the Severn Valley.

[Malc-Y]

In the city of Kingston-upon-Hull (usually called "Hull") in Yorkshire, England, there is a narrow street in the older part of town called "Land of Green Ginger"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Green_Ginger

Malc.

[ligito]

Wankers Corners, Oregon

[BMW Rider]

Southern Ontario had "Punkydoodles Corners".

I know that spot, I've been there as some of my wifes extended family lives near it.

There's a street in Calgary named Bison Path.

[john hobdeclipe]

On Ohio Route 7, just across the river from Moundsville, WV, is the town of Dilles Bottom.

[John Stevenson]

That makes one wonder about the veracity of the saying "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". "The Bird of Paradise" I can understand.

Actually the saying is
"A one in the hand is worth two in Kate Bush "

[Toolguy]

I say it's no coincidence that Intercourse, PA is so close to Paradise, PA.
For those of you with no partner, however, Bird in Hand, PA is just down the road.

That makes one wonder about the veracity of the saying "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". "The Bird of Paradise" I can understand.

[Ed P]

This maybe a little off the original topic but in Durham, NC there are streets with the same name as my first, middle and last name. In fact the street with the same name as my first runs right into the street with my last name. So there is a sign post with my first and last names on it, and in the correct order. Not the best part of town, but hey who's counting. A couple of blocks over there is a street with the same name as my father's middle name.

Ed P

[winchman]

I lived on Mistletoe Lane near Summerville, SC, for fifteen years.

[J Tiers]

For unusual place names in the UK

Isn't there a place in the UK known as "Middle Wallop"? IIRC in between over Wallop and Nether Wallop?

Back over here, I pass a turnoff for "Raccoon" in Indiana South of Crawfordsville.

And somewhere along I70 in Indiana or thereabouts is a place apparently called "Little Point". I have never stopped there, for obvious reasons.

[Bill736]

I say it's no coincidence that Intercourse, PA is so close to Paradise, PA.
For those of you with no partner, however, Bird in Hand, PA is just down the road.