Gazza58 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 My house is called,bugger hall,cos thats how much ive won on the horses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayaa Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 what about nicknames given to roads , like 'jawbone hill' that leads from Oughtibridge to Grenoside , not sure what its real name is ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 ... 'jawbone hill' that leads from Oughtibridge to Grenoside , not sure what its real name is !The name of the road is Oughtibridge Lane but, curiously, the Ordnance Survey marks the hill as "Whalejaw Hill". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willybite Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 The name of the road is Oughtibridge Lane but, curiously, the Ordnance Survey marks the hill as "Whalejaw Hill". hiya where i lived prior to 1961 in the broomhall district there were a lot of historical names of streets and town and city names as ours was ,bath,victoria,exeter,monmouth,fitzwilliam,dorset,cavendish,clarence,cavendish, aberdeen,milton,hanover,bolton,devonshire.filey, ps there were also ,welllington ,bowden trafalgar,streets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 hiya where i lived prior to 1961 in the broomhall district there were a lot of historical names of streets and town and city names as ours was bath, victoria, exeter, monmouth, fitzwilliam, dorset, cavendish, clarence, cavendish, aberdeen, milton, hanover, bolton, devonshire filey,Hi willybite - some of these evidently show 19th century deference to royalty and the nobility (e.g. Queen Victoria was of the House of Hanover, the Cavendish dynasty are the Dukes of Devonshire, Lord Aberdeen was Prime Minister in the 1850s, the Earls Fitzwilliam had strong links with South Yorkshire and the Duke of Clarence would have married Princess May of Teck in 1892 if he hadn't died shortly before the wedding. His full title was Duke of Clarence and Avondale, and as his proposed marriage to Princess May was in the news when Clarence Road, Avondale Road and May Road in Hillsborough were being built, they were named after the royal couple (undaunted, May eventually married his brother instead). Why Port Mahon - area near HillsboroughThis one has its own thread - it was evidently named after an 18th century sea battle (Mahón is the capital of Minorca).. One unusual street name that I rather like is "Tree Root Walk" near the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapper Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 wong lane at tickhill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Land of Green Ginger, in Kingston-upon-Hull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chap BLADE Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I was born on Knutton Crescent on Parson Cross. Loads of roads on Cross,Southey,Fox Hill etc named after famous people from the past ,Wordsworth,Chaucer,Keates,Halifax,Southey etc etc etc but searched internet high and low for the name Knutton and found nothing ,anyone know where it comes from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushbaby Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 "Hail Mary Drive" at Woodhouse Mill But is it Sheffield or Rotherham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arfer Mo Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Frog Walk runs by the River Porter. Anyone remember Blackman Lane it was somewhere nr Northumberland Rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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