Street names

Si · Post by Si » Tue 30 Sep, 2008 9:18 am

Trojan wrote: rangieowner wrote: Trojan wrote: There was an item on Radio Leeds this week about unusual West Yorkshire street names, apparently there are streets called "Solid" and "Cake" in Huddersfield.This set me wondering about "Branch End" at Gildersome - at the junction of Asquith Avenue and Gelderd Road, and where the name originated.For that matter I live in the Troy area of Morley which also seems fairly unusual. There's a Troy area in Horsforth too F.Y.I. ! Doesn't answer the question though does it? Why? We have no Greeks besieging us. We have no inpenetrable walls. We have no wooden horse (just a few cats) I suppose we have a Helen somewhere. Having said that I think that there's a Troydale area in Pudsey. there certainly used to be a textile group called Troydale - most of the mills in Morley belonged to it. Troydale is at the end of Valley Road, Pudsey, by the beck below Tong Lane. There was a mill there until recently. It was demolished and new housing takes it's place. My grandparents used to live down there. My nana worked in the mill canteen, and grandad was the green keeper for the bowling club.

harryd · Post by **harryd** » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 3:27 pm

Glad I spotted this thread as there are quite a few street names I'm really interested in (or simply like the sound of)Eggshell Lane - A muddy lane between priesthorpe lane and Calverley. Why is it so called? There is another one I know of in Clapham, North Yorks. That is also a rural lane - so is it simply to do with egg laying hens? Smashed shells etc?Knott Lane - Up to the A65 near RawdonButcher Hill, KirkstallDick Lane and Sticker Lane (both Bradford) sound pretty cool too.Picking up the coal road theme from earlier in the thread - there is also a Coal Hill Lane at the bottom of Farsley (near that old cemetery)

harryd · Post by **harryd** » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 3:28 pm

Also there is a devilishly steep hill (I should know I've cycled it) - from Garsdale Head to Dent - which is another Coal Road.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 5:13 pm

I've asked on here before without response, but it's worth another try.Who was Richard Shaw, as in "Richard Shaw Lane" in Pudsey?And why is it pronounced so stangely? - Rik-uh-shuh Lane?Ask someone from Pudsey where it is (pronounced as spelt) and they won't know!

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 5:26 pm

Si wrote: I've asked on here before without response, but it's worth another try.Who was Richard Shaw, as in "Richard Shaw Lane" in Pudsey?And why is it pronounced so stangely? - Rik-uh-shuh Lane?Ask someone from Pudsey where it is (pronounced as spelt) and they won't know! Just found this in Google Book Search - it was only available in snippet view so there's nothing more than this!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 5:43 pm

Another Leeds name which fascinates me - forgive me if I've mentioned it before - is Burmantofts.I believe that when Leeds was only a small town, or burgh, that a small plot (or toft) of land was given to each man in the burgh for cultivation - hence Burghmanstofts.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 5:49 pm

Tasa wrote: Si wrote: I've asked on here before without response, but it's worth another try.Who was Richard Shaw, as in "Richard Shaw Lane" in Pudsey?And why is it pronounced so stangely? - Rik-uh-shuh Lane?Ask someone from Pudsey where it is (pronounced as spelt) and they won't know! Just found this in Google Book Search - it was only available in snippet view so there's nothing more than this! Thanks, Tasa.You've done it again!!!

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 9:15 pm

The name i like is Pipe And Nook Lane thats near the Gala bingo just of the ring road at Wortley

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 11:16 pm

[quotenick="harryd"]Glad I spotted this thread as there are quite a few street names I'm really interested in (or simply like the sound of)Eggshell Lane - A muddy lane between priesthorpe lane and Calverley. Why is it so called? There is another one I know of in Clapham, North Yorks. That is also a rural lane - so is it simply to do with egg laying hens? Smashed shells etc?Speaking as an ex-Calverleyite, I've never heard the reference to Eggshell Lane before - always known it as simply Shell Lane. I'll dig around a bit, seeing as you've got me interested.

Si · Post by Si » Tue 21 Oct, 2008 8:53 am

Yeah, I thought it was just Shell Lane.Here it is in 1904.Photo from Leodis, where there are also some watercolours of it.