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Posted: Fri 24 Jan, 2014 2:03 am
by polo
any ideas people? ive wondered this one for a while
Posted: Fri 24 Jan, 2014 3:24 pm
by jdbythesea
................and why does Leeds have two of them?
Posted: Fri 24 Jan, 2014 10:37 pm
by LS1
I'm guessing at one time that they would have been in two totally different townships so originally won't have both been in Leeds as it is now...
Posted: Sat 25 Jan, 2014 7:55 am
by uncle mick
It seems to be a mystery the Henconner name, I can't find a reference to it anywhere else except in Leeds
Posted: Sat 25 Jan, 2014 9:44 am
by jim
How about "the lane where someone fraudulently deals in poultry"? "Hen" can also be a dialect or slang term for "woman", in which case something darker may be involved.
Posted: Sat 25 Jan, 2014 10:14 am
by uncle mick
jim wrote: How about "the lane where someone fraudulently deals in poultry"? "Hen" can also be a dialect or slang term for "woman", in which case something darker may be involved. Don't know jimThe earliest reference to Henconner Lane I can find is in the Leeds Mercury on 13 April 1850
Posted: Sat 25 Jan, 2014 11:09 am
by jim
Apparently "to con" or "conner" were used in the 17thC as nautical terms meaning to guide . Perhaps the terms came ashore to refer to hen keepers.
Posted: Sat 25 Jan, 2014 12:12 pm
by Chrism
jim wrote: How about "the lane where someone fraudulently deals in poultry"? "Hen" can also be a dialect or slang term for "woman", in which case something darker may be involved. Could that be said for Mistress Lane in Armley too?
Posted: Sun 26 Jan, 2014 11:04 pm
by gars21
What about cockshott lane? Is this as self explanitary as it seems?
Posted: Mon 27 Jan, 2014 1:11 am
by polo
Ive actually read that cockshott is a corruption of cockshoot pretty much as it sounds yeah