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Frog Walk runs by the River Porter.

 

hiya when we were young if we went to fulwood or endcliffe park we would walk back home and sometimes we walked past hunters bar school, and on to what was known as frog walk, at the time it was just a path down and over the river it overlooked the snuff mill, and on to the bottom to ecclesall rd.

ps. was there a big house that was wilsons home in the grounds or have i got it wrong.

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all the "jaunty's" at Basegreen, Jaunty Road,Jaunty Lane,Jaunty Avenue etc

 

Thought they were named after the son of the landowner from before the estate was built, a Jonty" (weren't they the Listers, after whom many of the other roads were named?)

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hiya when we were young if we went to fulwood or endcliffe park we would walk back home and sometimes we walked past hunters bar school, and on to what was known as frog walk, at the time it was just a path down and over the river it overlooked the snuff mill, and on to the bottom to ecclesall rd.

 

Yes, that would be Wilson's snuff mill, which I beleive is still there.

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I find street names fascinating..

Cut Throat Bridge on the Snake Pass is called so because a man was found with his throat cut there (or at its previous incarnation) 400 years ago.

 

One I've always wondered about is Cockshott Lane in Deepacr? How did that get its name?

 

Any other gems of local street name knowledge? The more gruesome the better

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