The Most Offensive Street Name in UK History 

Filthy A420😲 How dare you 😠

How about A34 - Stratford Road, Birmingham?

And the M69 between Coventry and Leicester. Dirty people. Dirty!

We have the B380 near me, I often find this amusing, as Boeing would never build an A380. I know it is not rude.

The A420 is a b!t@h of a road especially between Swindon and Oxford 😮

Either way there was some kind of "shafting" going on, eh? 😆

ooof

I tried to drive through in the 1990s and had to give up goodness knows what it's like now.

Lol

​@@maxusboostusYou cannot drive through Oxford at all now.Big brother has installed CCTV cameras, by bus gates and large wooden flowerpots to prevent through - traffic.

I'm South African. The Beeps remind me of an interview TV crew had with a guy on the street in Cape town... mostly beeps🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

If only he'd timed the beeps to spell out ...

Plenty of Scunnies there.

I don't know if it's still the case, but Scunthorpe was filtered out of some internet searches a few years ago because of those certain 4 letters appearing. 😊

​@@adyf397known it IT circles as the Scunthorpe problem

Apologies. only saw your post after.

Sgrovethorp it is then! 😂

Would be a lot worse if it was a moveable bridge that raises and lowers 😆

I am glad, this pussifying (no, not sorry) of history needs to stop.

Glad they kept the name. Long live Cas Vegas!

@@djhrecordhound4391 Your comment made me burst out laughing! Brilliant!!

Isn’t Ticklecock Bridge just off Strokesack Lane?

Don’t forget bell end drive 😂

Ive been there, once broke down in a back ally there 😇

There's a main road near where I live called Hoe st.

@@catherinebirch2399 Someone from near Walthamstow😜😜😜

Yes!! My Mum lives in the neighbouring village, which has the unassuming name of Rowhedge. Sadly no Grope Lane or anything similar, but Essex also boasts Balls Green, Ugley, Cock Clarks, Butt Road and Burnt Dick Hill.

Back passage can be found in Chingford

Jim'll Fix it!

SOME COMMENTS ARE A BLAST 😂 👌

Oops!

From Telford myself here. I didn't think Grooms Alley sounded that bad but I have heard of both those streets

Yeah they lead into Aldi, just taking the pi$$. @@Cpr1234

History is cowardly that way, sometimes.

I wondered where the name "Kent" came from!

@@wiseoldfool Ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom

So, orange headed POTUS had read Chaucer.

@@20chocsaday A veritable witty riposte. It doth cause me much mirth.

@@jacklovejoy5290 Sorry, I was being facetious, implying that "Kent" was derived from "queynte"! No offense intended to Kentish folk or folk of Kent.

I left my like immediately after this line was said

and SITTING (Protein Man reference en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Green )

I agree, I hate it when place names are changed, it's so stupid, some people are too easily offended by things that don't matter.

I wouldn't raise my child on Gropeсunt lane to be honest .. I'm against censorship in media and history, but letting a public street be called Gropeсunt lane is taking the рiss a bit.

⁠@@YAMMASit’s one of those that was known for prostitution, that’s why. If you don’t want to raise your child there, then lucky you, there’s many more to choose from! If you MUST live on a street anyway

And yet he hides the name in the video also.

Well said

Very poetic!

Renowned Science Fiction author Michael Moorcock wrote a novel in the early '70s 'The Brothel on Rosenstraße'

Make sure you don't get prickled.

In Portugal the name "Rosa Maria" implies prostitute. Very unfair to girls called that who aren't on the game.

Dominic Raab lives his life as tho he's a resident and trying uphold the history single handed...no pun intended

I read an article recently talking about how predatory the culture is in Westminster, so, given no other evidence, I fully believe your assertion lol

You will find many in Parliament!

Ideal for dogging then?

I was thinking 'grove' is a very common name for roads, but rather than 'grove street' it would be 'something grove', implying grove was something other than a grope. So thanks for explaining that.

With headphones?

@@paulsengupta971 yes, definitely too much c**t for the other parents to hear 😂

...well certainly it could've become a might difficult to explain initially to the massed ranks of parents ready to fight over their kids.perceived sporting performances.

There’s a place called “Wet wang” in Yorkshire 😂

I'm in Canada and years ago I saw a meme... It had a road sign pointing toward Twatt and the caption said, "I just found your house." 😆😅😂🤣

There's also a sandy balls on the western edge of the New Forest... it's a holiday destination

@@djhrecordhound4391 yep that's the very village

Don't forget Pratts Bottom in Kent.

Only way that could be innocent...? There is/was a swing bridge on a local canal(????)

Weird stuff going on in Old Basing

I know the area well, Jayfive - but not that well 😉

Blooming tortoise races sums up CCC. 🙂 Floreat Trinity!

@@Mike-H_UK And the most uneven croquet pitch in Christendom too

Ah, but there is a Corpus Christi College founded in 1352 to train priests to bury the dead in the black death - earlier than Trinity. It doesn't have tortoise races but it does have a fancy clock.

@@DavidNewmanDr There is Corpus Christi College Oxford (1517) and was connected to the new learning movement of the time. There is also Corpus Christi College Cambridge (1352) founded by local heilsamen. They are very different.

@@johncrwarner There aren't many people who can say that they walked through the red light district to get to the Dyson Perkins (correct - should be Perrins) lab! Trinity's claim to fame is being next to The White Horse....

I heard once that the c word was the normal word for that part of the female anatomy in Shakespeare's time, don't recall reading it in any of his plays, could have missed it though 🤣

It's old Anglo Saxon as are most of our British swear words!

It's the Anglo Saxon equivalent of the Latin 'Vagina'

@@mikehipperson If memory serves, the earliest recorded use of the word "fuck" is in a monastery's inventory records; in the margins, an Anglo-Saxon monk wrote "fucking abbot". I guess he was having a bad day.

@@eruantien9932 …or a good day, depending on your preferences

Hamlet.

@@digitig Thank you.

Contraceptives, obviously.

@@hotelmario510 Or special itch creams, and leaches, as they were a bit of a cure all according to Blackadder history.

I’d love to know how Tickle Cock Bridge in Castleford got its name 😳

​@@rhyslister2754because what happens in CasVegas stays in CasVegas

Moor was a common term for darker skinned people at one time so maybe it was just trying to better describe the options available.

@@alang5764 Probably more like is that the land ran along side a moor. ie an area of grassland.

Even more so if you used what I think is the original and proper word, "titbit".

We’ve only the internet to blame for this disheartening lack 😢

So sarcastically? Because you mean inconspicuous if not

@@rymic72ah yes, it’s much better when local people desperate for money to survive by renting their bodies forsaking any dignity and respect were outside where you had to go to, not a tap away… damn the internet making using other equals a sex objects so much easier… where’s the effort…

@@Cassxowary I’ve been told by incredibly reliable sources that sex work is real work and that we must celebrate women who choose this career path. Far be it from me to be a misogynist who attempts to mansplain that they are being exploited and used. I must at all costs attempt to eradicate the toxic masculinity from my thoughts and forego my natural tendencies towards desiring to protect women lest I be labeled a dinosaur or a relic of a past that is best left to die off.

​@@rymic72Tbh you are a relic mate. So am I. Only recently have I discovered that this business is done via the internet now, and not down an infamous street. And I'm not new to the Internet... It just hadn't occurred to me. But at least I know that it's not a world where men are expected to protect women. I'm not that daft. No offence

Orrroit bor! Hew ya getting on? Ex Norricher an I dint 4:06 even no that! Blass me, I spose as wot ya git from growin up in Lakenham.... lol 👍🏻

@@ikarus_incarnateGo you steady and make sure you glove up 😊

I never knew there was that sort of thing in Norwich- some people didn't have sisters or female cousins, I suppose.

I didn't know that but it doesn't surprise me, given the city was famous for having a pub for every night of the year and a church for every Sunday at one time, & invented the madder red dye colour there was guaranteed to be the extra shenanigans going on too in a well defined spot

Norwich also has a Grape Hill which now part of the inner ring road (A147) adjacent to Unthank road, where i assume you didn't need to leave tips.

Very good😅

@jshood3353 - "The most important history is the history they want to hide" D'you know, JS, I think that should be emblazoned across the wall in every school. college and university in the country! It's one of those insights that make me wonder "Why did I never see THAT one before?"

@@jackx4311 Correct. But remember, the Democrats demand the removal of famous Civil War statues of Democrats.

It's like the uproar Black boy Lane in London caused. The woke lot jumped on the ethnicity blame and shame thing immediately. Not even having the brains or decency to find out how it got its name in the first place. It was an extremely poor slum area. Parents being ill with God's knows what and the only way to feed the family was for young white boys to climb inside and clean chimneys. Hence the black boy bit. It wasn't in anyway shape or form racist. But like everything else let's stamp our feet and I do believe the local Borough removed it. Which is as good as a history wipe! Like you say these things might not be be liked? But they're part of this Countries history!!

Of course it isn't. He knows nothing about history or etymology, just vehicles and motorways. He needs to keep to his own lane and only on RU-vid would the uneducated like him think this video is good.

4 replies, only one visible. Ironic.

I've only got to know Oxford quite recently and have heard that Jericho had a slightly dodgy reputation, but over the past year I've been there quite a lot as my daughter was living there this year, and it seems like a really nice area - good pubs and restaurants. Sadly she's moving to new accommodation from October so I doubt I'll be back.

@@capitalb5889 I lived on Kingston Road in the late 1980s and Jericho was absolutely fine then. I think this part of Jericho's reputation was from the pre-1960s.

@@Mike-H_UK Jericho was basically an area of small terraced houses that became trendy and gentrified and went upmarket from the 1970s onwards as house prices rose. Not an area I ever wanted to live as it reminded me of the back streets of my home town, no front gardens etc. and I bet parking is a nightmare.

Some Grove things were actually named after a group of trees... what went ON in the grove of trees... is up to the imagination

@@TheChipmunk2008 i knew somome who lived at 22 acacia avenue in tottenham for those iron maiden fans :)

@@Dirt-Diggler Dam beaten to the Iron Maiden reference. 😂 but pleased that at least one other person is on that wave length.

It would be cool to see a "Battlecat Lane" or "SheRa Drive" 😉

Since when do you need council permission to name your house? I honestly wouldn’t have guessed that.

@@xr6lad - if you want it officially than I think it’s been the case for decades

@@MrGreatplum I just put up a sign I didn't know I was supposed to ask the government nobody has ever said anything.

I think that as well as making sure street names don't have any, erm, distracting connotations, councils in charge of these things have to look into what would happen if letters were altered by a wag with a black marker / white paint. The Manchester gay village's Canal Street is a prime example: People regularly give the sign some context by whiting out the C and S.

The Canal Street area of Manchester also lost its capital letter.

Not as painful as the road signs here saying "Opening Canal Bridge" with the C sprayed out 😆

Same with the Lancaster canal as u pass over northbound on the m6

"You can prick your finger, but doooon't finger your prick!" --George Carlin 😆😉

@@djhrecordhound4391 I knew a man who went to the clap clinic once, he had a swab which was like a cocktail umbrella shoved up his. He said that it was uncomfortable to say the least. 😄

Don't forget the type of medieval dagger that was known as a 'ballock-knife' because of the two 'balls' on either side of the handle. Let's see if Facebook gets this one.

@@johnclark2751 IIRC, the proper term for a castrated bull was a "ballocked" (spellings may differ) bull. Maybe the guy who did that job lived on that road too. Just a theory...or maybe it's a big pile of bullsht lol

CJ groped plenty of c*nts in the hot coffee mod!!!

glad to hear :D thanks!

Yeah History stories are so often like Sunday School, where they censor out all the realy interesting Bible stories. The Old Testament book of Judges chapter 4, story where there were 2 armies in a sorta standoff. But the commanders would visit local civilians etc in a sort of "Neutral Zone". One woman "Jael" who was really supportive of the "other" army, had an evening of, shall we say politely "feasting and merriment" with the other Army Commander in her home tent. After copious amounts of wine drinking and copious amounts of, say "bonking-up-and-down", the guy was sound asleep enjoying a well earned rest. So she takes a tentpeg and drives it right through his head and out the other side into the ground. The Bible is quite specific about the details. Remember also NOT a modern day tent peg, 6 inches long intended for a thin nylon tent. It would have been a sharpened wooden stake, half a metre to a metre long, intended to secure thick animal hide tents against desert winds, hammered into the ground (or someone's head) with a large wooden or stone headed mallet. Fun Bible stories that Sunday School never taught ! (An old friend of mine was from an old school Baptist family, she knew the Bible inside-out).

​@@KiwiCatherineJemmaIt's the same when they always stop when Lot's wife looks back & gets turned into a pillar of salt. They kinda miss out the bit where his daughters get him drunk & jump him in a cave so they can get knocked up. It's a very dodgy set of myths & fables!

@@Aengus42 Damn, didn't know the Bible was based like that

@@Aengus42 Yep, I know that story well, and NO that one is never taught at kids Sunday School either. As I said, an old friend who'd grown up in a strictly religious family, (before "finding her own way, in the world") she knew her Bible inside out and backwards. Her mind was like a steel trap for details. Hey, in 'The Wizard of Oz', what colour were Dorothy's magic Shoes (that she inherited from the dead witch that her house fell on, when she landed in Oz at first ?) The shoes were of course SILVER. But "No they were "Ruby Red" you say". Nar, that was changed from the original book, because they wanted to show off the Colour of the film. Remember Wizard of Oz started off as a Black-and-white movie. Of course we're talking about the famous one, from my memory Judy Garland starred in 1939, but that was about the eighth version of WOO, they'd started to do adaptations of the books, right from the Silent Films era. There was actually a well done animated series of WOO, I think it was French made about the late 1980's, but in English language and they stuck closer to the books, including the Magic Shoes being Silver in colour.

I stopped in Norwich one night, asked where a decent pub was , bastard told me some pub in Ber St, turned out to be full of prossies, didn't stay long.

Given Grove Street is next to Port Hamilton (where the Lloyds Banking office is) which was the main port for Edinburgh (where the Canal originally terminated - remember, the Ports in Leith were in Leith, not Edinburgh🤣) so had a Demand for Sailors comfort...

I live about 1/2 a mile from Grove St. Made me wonder if that was it's original name.

There were a few ancient burials discovered under the new tramway round about the Foot of The Walk tramstop.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWW! 😆

ah yes... I saw that image.. delightful.

Good thing it wasn't Archer's Way first, then changed to Butthole Road... OWTCH!!!!😆😅😂🤣

There’s a Butthole lane in Shepshed

I bet the council get fed up having to keep buying new signs.

the council gave the name the old "spanish archer" El Bow

Butts was the name given to places where they practiced archery, so at least the renaming was on the same theme

Fruit farm or not, could it have been an "alternative" district...? (There was that derogatory term for gays.)

Judging by the comments... it seems there's loads of them!!

...luckiest dude in Gloucester...???? 😉

Three Cocks is in Wales, north of Brecon, not too far from Gloucester. There's a nice garden centre there.

Probably named after someone who had lots of chickens, And a really randy wife. 🤣

@@medler2110 or one really big....... chicken

@@jamescullis7768 Well even hens have a pecker 😆😅😂🤣

...while he's sitting on the bog, smiling at us!!

Nice one, thanks mate

Pity you didn't where with an O

Grabbed a photo that when we were walking in the area a few years back

The best schoolboy graffiti on a street name was by a guy I went to school with who changed "Mount Road" to "Mount ME Road"

Just north-west of the satellite view at 0:05 is the junction of Ship Street and Turl Street. The adjacent street-signs sometimes get their final letters modified similarly.