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    Gropecunt Lane (/ˈɡroʊpkʌnt/) was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lovers' lanes. Gropecunt Lane Lover's Leap Cruising for sex "lovers' lane". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster...
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    been used as an orchard. In the 13th century, Magpie Lane was known as Gropecunt Lane or Grope Lane, as it was an area where prostitutes plied their trade...
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    Sexual harassment Non-penetrative sex Eve teasing Frotteurism Debagging Gropecunt Lane "Grope, verb". Cambridge Dictionary. The Age, 12 June 2019, 'Disgusting':...
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    the name; Gropecunt Lane in 13th-century Wells became Grope Lane, and then in the 19th century, Grove Lane. In the city of York, Grapcunt Lane (grāp being...
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  • of a placename: an Oxford street called Gropecunt Lane, c. 1230, now by the name of Grove Passage or Magpie Lane. Use of the word as a term of abuse is...
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  • to Whore's Street and Grope Cunt Lane in the city centre, down by the docks. Both Whore's Street and Gropecunt Lane (a name found in many English medieval...
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    the church of St Pancras, Soper Lane, a notorious district of sexual vice including one street called Gropecunt Lane. In 1310 Edward II ordered the abolition...
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    resident claiming that the street is "part of the tradition of Shepshed". Gropecunt Lane Fugging, Upper Austria Shitterton "Archers Way, Conisbrough, Doncaster...
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    scheme was scrapped in 2021. Leicester South Highfields (defunct) London Gropecunt Lane (possible medieval; defunct) King's Cross Piccadilly Circus (defunct)...
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