@BongoTwisty @bikenite A4. There's Joy Rd in Occidental, California, that I'd only ridden once on a long rainy ride. I remember being really annoyed at the name because it was a steep climb and there were a couple o false summits. I was not feeling much joy!

Not really a favorite but the name was funny to me.

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@ascentale @BongoTwisty @bikenite A4 I think I speak for all Portland cyclists when we say our favorite street is Couch St.

Because it's not pronounced like the furniture with the same name 😏

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@ascentale @BongoTwisty @bikenite A4. I don’t seem to have a photo of the actual intersection, but this Spurline Trail sign points to it: The corner of Roger and Moore, where all the best spy stuff happens in Waterloo Region!

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@ascentale @BongoTwisty @bikenite A4. I used to frequently pass by a sign for a road named Maurice. Every single time, I’d involuntarily hear in my head, 🎶“… some people call me Maurice.”🎶

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A4. Sleepy Hollow Drive. Somewhere in West Mississippi.

I like the story and setting, it was the incongruousness of it being in the Deep South that stood out to me.

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@ascentale @BongoTwisty @bikenite A4: I like road names that are variations on "old 99" and such because they show where Route 99 used to be before Interstate 5 happened. Much of the time, it's the same roadbed, but often - particularly north of Seattle - it's not.

There's also a little stub of a road, dead-ending, like half a block long, that used to be called Railroad Ave and it's where a rail stop used to be on the Burke-Gilman Trail back when it was a railroad.

In both cases, it's less that the names are interesting and more that the history is interesting.

Cat's Whiskers in Kenmore isn't bad either, again for history - it's named for one of the dozens of prohibition speakeasies they used to have.

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A4
One of my favourites is a road in Connel, near Oban, that's called Deirdre.

And in Edinburgh a widley-known unofficial name to a crossroads that has 4 churches (one on each side of the junction). It's known as Holy Corner

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A4: Helmet row in Islington, London
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I cannot find a photo - but on one of my gravel rides you emerge from a field crossing pushing through very high grass to be greeted with the road sign Sheep Tick Lane. And I do check

Edit: it's Sheeptick End

@ascentale @BongoTwisty @bikenite A4. Not a road, but an entire town in Somerset, England, called Street. A very nice place too that I used to enjoy visiting for all sorts of different reasons.

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A4 Here in York (UK) we have a short cul-de-sac called Cycle Street, along with all the faintly ridiculous road names that go with centuries of history and Roman/Anglo-Saxon/Viking occupation...

Examples include: Whipmawhopmagate, Nether Hornpot Lane (also known as Hornpot Lane Nether!) and Shambles.

Link to Cycle Street (Google Maps, sorry!)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/pX3gp2NbboA1oBGm9

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Highway 61. Because Dylan.

Personal connection: I grew up in Red Wing, Minnesota, through which highway 61 runs, and now spend a lot of time near old Hwy 61 in Pine County and points farther northeast, including Lake Superior’s North Shore.

I’ve always liked Main Street in small towns (Hwy 61 becomes Main Street in Red Wing).

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This one is local to me. Another one I've liked since first seeing it. The "Bath" part of the name refers to 19th century floating public baths that were moored on the River Medway near this location. The "Hard" part is a historical term for a section of riverbank that was reinforced to allow people, carts, and boats to access the water without sinking into mud. There's a lot of mud on the banks of the Medway.

Seeing everyone's contributions here has led me to think what a great tour could be made from visiting all these places.

#medway #kent

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#Audax rides around the UK provide plenty rich pickings of linguistic drift. Innocent origins of ancient place names obscured by how they read in these times.