Place names?

[spiralsheep]

Dear fellow flaneurs,

rydra_wong mentioned the surreal place name Bird in Hand Passage (link goes to flickr) in a report here, and I recently walked along the delightfully named Little Penny Rope, so I'm wondering: have any of you visited any places with memorable names, or are there places on your hypothetical "to visit" list just because of the name?

Comments

[naraht]

Hull's "Land of Green Ginger" wins the prize as far as I'm concerned!

[spiralsheep]

Somewhere you've been or somewhere you want to go or just somewhere you're glad exists? It sounds like the location of a sweet but surreal children's story to me.

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

[naraht]

I've been! The story of "how I happened to be in Hull last Easter morning" is a strange one and involves Tony Benn.

[gool_duck]

Blue Ball Yard

[spiralsheep]

I would demand anecdotage but I suspect you've already confessed the best bits, heh.

[spiralsheep]

Hee! I wandered down Grope Lane earlier this year:

Grope Lane, Shrewsbury, Shropshire (on flickr)

Bonus photo of a ttly historically accurate re-enactment, not (on visitshrewsbury)

Gropecunt Lane, a history (warning, wikipedia, also nsfw obvz).