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In the UK, there is also:

    Brown Willy, Cornwall.
    Cock Alley, Calow.
    Shitterton, Dorset.
    Fanny Barks, Durham.
    Fingringhoe, Essex.
    Bitchfield, Lincolnshire.
    Moisty Lane, Staffordshire.
    Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire.

The residents of Shitterton now have an almost theft-proof sign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitterton

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I lived in Fingeringhoe. I was an adult before someone pointed out how smutty the name was.

The principle of the local primary school told us that the older name was “fingeringahoe” which if anything was worse!

> The residents of Shitterton now have an almost theft-proof sign

Having grown up on Cock Street, I can confirm that they went to great lengths to make the sign theft-proof.

They often nearly succeeded.

There also used to be much more explicit street names until they were sanitised

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

There's also Cockermouth, in Cumbria.

I am perhaps extraordinarily law-abiding, but now a distressingly large part of me wants to heist that sign

Also Slutshole, Kent

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