Ah, the shame of ill-placed modesty!

Perhaps we should be satisfied that at least part of the whole name remains, unlike many street names which have submitted to the puritanism of local councils.  In York, for example, it’s even been sanitised to Grape Lane.

Three cheers, then, for the people of Wakefield who protested and successfully thwarted the renaming to “Tittle Cott” from Tickle Cock Lane.

But what illicit joy we would still have (and how “quaint”) to be able to say this Shrewsbury street’s original name, complete with its missing last four letters.