Gropecunt Lane
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Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval
Magpie Lane in Oxford, once known as Gropecunt Lane
Grope Lane, Bristol, 1542
Grope Lane in Shrewsbury
Grape Lane
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Grape Lane is a street in the city centre of York, in England.
Gropecunt Lane
…in England, but all have now been bowdlerised. In the city of York, for instance, Grapcunt Lane—grāp is the Old English word for grope—was renamed as Grape Lane. Bristol's 'Gropecount Lane', recorded by that form in the late fifteenth century had been contracted to Grope Lane by the 1540s, sometimes then being…
Grape Lane, seen from Swinegate, in 2009