> There was an indispensable article in the NYT a few months back about
> embarrassing place names, mostly medieval holdovers in England - Butt Hole
> Road, Gropecunt Lane, &c.
If we believe Wiki, this seems too good to be true -- they used to be called that, but then they got changed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
ATW, the last road named Gropecunt Lane was in 1516.
Michael