Historic Street Names Reach the End Of The Line

If you live on Bladder Lane, Bent Street and Butt Hole Road then it is no laughing matter for residents who campaign to get these street names changed.

Originally named after local landmarks; these streets have led to embarrassment for inhabitants who in have witnessed tourists visiting their home so they can laugh at the name.

While it is easy to see why these property owners want to change the street names, historians are concerned about the historical losses these name changes will cause.
Once called ‘Butt Hole Road’ referencing the water butt once located in the area, this street is now ‘Archers Way’. Boniface Lane, formerly Bladder Lane now no longer has any links to the Bladderwort plant that it was originally named after.

Other street names have suffered despite not being for as straight forward reasons:

• ‘Bent Street’ in Blackburn was renamed to ‘Greenhurst Place’ after local sheltered accommodation requested a more natural and green name.

• ‘Brewery Street’ was renamed ‘University Close’ after Blackpool College asked for a more scholarly name.

• Property developers in Gloucester asked that ‘Asylum Lane’ be changed to ‘Royal Lane’ due to the negative aspect of the word ‘Asylum’.

• Many streets in Liverpool changed their names to prevent new property investments being linked to nearby areas with bad credit history.

Is it worth changing your street name?

No. It is usually funded by residents and property developers and can take up to 10 years to get changed.

Once property owners have changed it they will have the added cost of changing the deeds to their homes, as well as their mortgage details, billing information and the endless amounts of on and offline detail changes.

Because of this we strongly recommend that you carefully consider where you buy your next property investment.

Investing in a property on ‘Bladder Lane’ may be amusing at first, but as you can see an unusual or rude street name could deter tenants from wanting to live in your property let.