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From Fanny Hands Lane to Creampoke Crescent, Bitchfield, and Tongue End, Lincolnshire has its fair share of unusual and silly place names.Some have stories behind them, while others cause a chuckle or just stand out for being different.Fanny Hands Lane in Ludford. | Photo: Google Street ViewIt reportedly got its name when land owner John Hands married a girl called Frances. In those days a lot of people called Frances were known as Fanny, so John named the street after his wife.
“Many years ago a horseman was galloping through this way and was thrown and flung at great force against the the high wall, breaking his neck, hence the name,” according to a YouTube video by Sean McNeaney`s History and Folklore. A Methodist church was built in the New York in 1872 and is said to have been purchased at auction by a private buyer in July 2011.A side street on Westcroft Drive has been humorously titled “fatty bum bum” on Google Maps.The driveway which has three houses alongside it on Westcroft Drive in Saxilby is officially part of that street. At the time of, but it was unclear as to how and why it was given that name.in East Lindsey, which is surrounded by steep hills and deep valleys.
Excavations in the 1930s are said to have found Saxon burial remains there and there is a dip in the top of the mound. Some researchers suggest that it was a site for cockfighting.is a village in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, but this place sounds too ‘dirty’ to be situated there.
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