There’s an abundance of applicable – and a few not so – puns about Butts Mount in Leeds.
However in the event you stay on the road, it might be tiring to be the butt of the joke always.
That is, at the least, how warehouse employee, Fum Sampson, feels about dwelling there.
The 30-year-old, who has lived on the road along with his spouse and three youngsters for seven years, doesn’t discover it humorous.
He mentioned: ‘It’s a good place to stay. Extra outdated folks stay on this space, nobody too younger, it’s quiet.
‘When I say I live in Butts Mount, they just say “Butts Mount?” And I say “yes”. It does not make me laugh, I do not find it funny. For me, it is normal.’
Butts Mount is a small, unassuming road with 19 properties, tucked away within the Armley suburb of Leeds.
There are a number of streets in Leeds referred to as Butts – Butts Terrace in Guiseley, Butts Lane in Lumby, Butts Garth View in Thorner, and Butts Courtroom in Leeds metropolis centre.
However the title has historic connotations and isn’t referring to somebody’s rear finish.
It’s understood it dates way back to the 14th century, referring to locations the place males would observe archery as these had been situated on the outskirts of populated areas.
Regardless of the historic hyperlinks to archery legal guidelines, some residents discover it ’embarrassing’.
Mum and daughter Robina Bi, 42, and Faizah Zu, 19, have lived on the nook of Butts Mount and Armley Grove for 16 years.
{The teenager} mentioned: ‘My friends laughed at it when we were looking at our houses on Google Earth and I did not want to show them because “Butts!”. It is quite embarrassing’
In the meantime, her mum mentioned she at all times refers to her handle as ‘on the corner of Armley Grove’, reasonably than Butts Mount.
Throughout the UK, there are a selection of unlucky road names which might be actually no laughing matter to their residents.
There’s Butt Gap Street in Conisbrough, Doncaster, Crotch Crescent in Marston, Oxford, and Mingle Lane in Upton, Worcester.
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