My favourite, in Lincolnshire.

My favourite regularly defaced street name is Canal Street in Manchester, which for those who don't know runs through the middle of the gay district. Guess what that gets defaced as. Go on, guess.

So the rather dodgy sounding place of Fingling Ho will have to have a "name reassignment" then?

Are the DM saying this is a "Good Thing", and supporting the council or are they saying its a "Bad thing"? Its important to know these things especially when the DM is involved because I'd hate to think I might be agreeing with them given their rabid obsession with the new "extreme" pornography act (won't someone please think of the children, please?) where they seem to make Hitler and Stalin seem scarily mainstream.

Frankly given the way the economy is going I'm amazed that Lewes District council are bothered with such a stupid little thing. I guess Minge Lane or Horney Old Road would be for the chop in their NuWorld town? I look forward to Gloucester County Council renaming Uckington (and yes there is space to the left of the U on the sign posts to add a single letter F)

Sad, Sad, Sad

Isn't that where Lewd behaviour was invented?

Since I live in DogPool Lane

Why not force people with unsuitable last names to change them, or at least prevent them from reaching high official positions, as, while street names are merely a local inconvenience, they internationally disgrace the whole country!

Does this mean we are going to loose _anal _treet [in Manchesters Gay Village] as well?

Lewes Social Services has deemed naming one's daughter "Charlotte" to be child abuse, saying:

"Well, it clearly rhymes with 'Harlot', innit?"

example of PC madness. It's a shame when the vandals (who might damage a sign for amusement) win by getting society to change the signs instead of the council confronting and dealing with the real problem.

It's not political correctness to get rid of Cockshut Lane... it's just saving money on replacing/cleaning the sign when it gets repeatedly vandalised. Shame to lose it, though.

I'm not sure why Rachel Powell blames political correctness - it seems to be a catch-all scapegoat nowadays. The council clearly state that it's to reduce defacement. It would be a case of political correctness if they did something like renaming 'Brown Street' to 'Interracial Street'.

On another topic entirely - for GOD'S SAKE, REGISTER, PLEEEEASE make use of a cookie with your bloody annoying 'Reg Reader Research' javascript popup. I've clicked the X innumerable times and filled it in with rubbish three times so far just to stop the fucking thing appearing in front of every story and comment box, but you don't appear to have any kind of cookie or session variable that says 'this person has filled in / clicked the X and doesn't want to be annoyed any more'.

Bring back Gropecunt Lane!

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

Mines the one with '101 jokes you should have left behind in the playground' in the pocket.

How is introducing one line to a policy a 'waste of council tax payer's money'? It takes two minutes to do. Surely the bigger waste of council tax payer's money is replacing signs that repeatedly get defaced?

I think a previous poster might have been closer to the main reason: if you have to keep cleaning or even replacing defaced signs, why not simply replace them with one that won't get defaced again?

Of course the cost to the people who might live or work in those places isn't a factor to the council...

I work with a guy called Rudi Cockx - I know this is about places rather than people, but even after all these months that's still too snigger-worthy for me to resist posting! :-D

Letsby Avenue in Sheffield has one building on it: a Police station.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/feb/12/martinwainwright

In other news of street furniture defacement, there's a sign in Lincolnshire that reads "To Old Bolingbroke and Mavis Enderby", to which a local wit has added "the gift of a son".

"Bring back Gropecunt Lane!"

I have it on good authority from a mate of mine who's a keen local historian that what is now Grape Lane in York used to be Grope Lane, or some variation thereof, on account of what used to go on in ye olde times.

The nearby village of Long Marston has a street called "Butt Hedge" - never fails to raise a snigger or two.

Does Lewes still resound to the chant of 'Kill the Pope' every 5th November? It certainly used to. Does the council still encourage visitors to the town's bonfire night celebrations?

Pot, Kettle etc

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9070134

I remember seeing this roadsign years ago while traveling through a village in Northamptonshire. I had to stop the car becuase i was laughing so much.

Thumbs down becuase I hope they never change the names of roads like these as they are part of our history.

The name I liked (probably been expunged now) comes from somewhere in Derbyshire, I think -- Peniston Rise. I liked the way the second part of the name was included in the smut and have the obvious photo of friends standing in front of the 'ton'.

Alien, since s/he/it doesn't seem to get much of an airing.

everyone (including me) who's spending an amusingly childish afternoon typing rude words into Streetmap

They nipped that one in the bud then.

On my street there is a small lane called "Pilrig House Close". It only has two buildings on it...

I've only once seen the sign without graffitti. The council replaced the sign and the vandal replaced their part the next day.

"Pilrig House ^is very Close". Never failed to make me smile.

I live on Cockshut Lane, not in Lewes but up in the Midlands - the road's been called that for well over a century and the name originally meant "a type of net used to catch woodcock". How stupid that Lewes are wanting to change the name just because of a few idiot teenagers! Grow up Lewes council!!!