Slack Bottom is a road that is known up and down the country due to its unusual name. Located above Heptonstall the road stretches from Smithy Lane to (you guessed it) Slack Top at the other end.Slack Bottom is a road that is known up and down the country due to its unusual name. Located above Heptonstall the road stretches from Smithy Lane to (you guessed it) Slack Top at the other end.
Slack Bottom is a road that is known up and down the country due to its unusual name. Located above Heptonstall the road stretches from Smithy Lane to (you guessed it) Slack Top at the other end.

21 weird and wonderful street names from in and around Calderdale

From Slack Bottom to Doghouse Lane there are a number of streets in Calderdale that have some very unusual names.

Here are 21 unusual street names from across Calderdale. These names were picked out from the extensive list of street names on the Malcolm Bull’s Calderdale Companion website. For more picture galleries click here to see 21 nostalgic pictures showing life in Calderdale in the 1980s, click here to see pictures looking right back to nights out in Halifax back in 2006 and click here to see if you've done these Halifax things.

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