{"id":349759,"date":"2026-03-27T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349759\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:42:12","slug":"new-zealands-naughtiest-street-names-from-a-to-nearly-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349759\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s naughtiest street names from A to (nearly) Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

In search of some levity this week, we\u2019re cataloguing national treasures like Butts Valley Road, Cockburn Street and Ruba Way. (Content warning, obviously.)<\/p>\n

Get your eyes out of the gutter and look up instead \u2013 our street signs present endless opportunities for puerile humour. While most streets are, officially, named after sensible things like people or geographic features, anyone looking for a lol will discover that New Zealand\u2019s streets are filled with euphemisms and double entendres.<\/p>\n

Surnames that might have given their honoured namesakes grief in the schoolyard \u2013 Cockburn, Ball and Dick \u2013 endure for new generations of tweens to giggle at in Grey Lynn, Redcliffs and Reefton. Some streets share their name with genital terminology or sexual synonyms; you\u2019ll find Bone Crescent in H\u0101wera and Spooners Bush Road in Wakefield. Others, in the case of Whang\u0101rei\u2019s Bush Haven Drive, are practically poetic. Many rest on the power of slang and the annals of the Urban Dictionary: Somerville in Auckland is home to Gooch Place and Feelding has a Roots Street. A handful (sorry) of street names even provide a full package (sorrrry) of bawdy humour, as is the case with Tauranga\u2019s Ruba Way. Translations of certain te reo Ma\u014dri words bring alternate meanings to locations like Tara Crescent and Ure Road (vagina and penis respectively). Not to mention the fact any sign with \u201crise\u201d in the title is ripe for innuendo.<\/p>\n

Although this isn\u2019t the first time The Spinoff has catalogued dirty place names<\/a>, this time we\u2019re zooming in on the nation\u2019s streets, roads, avenues, lanes, ways, places and rises. Have we missed your favourite? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

Analie Place \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Annalong Road \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Ball Lane \u2013 Christchurch<\/p>\n

Ball Place \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Ball Street \u2013 Invercargill<\/p>\n

Ballin Street \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Ballymore Drive \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Bangor Road \u2013 Darfield<\/p>\n

Bangor Street \u2013 Auckland, Christchurch, Hasting, Mataura, Middlemarch<\/p>\n

Beatty Avenue \u2013 Te Puke<\/p>\n

Beatty Road \u2013 Pukekohe<\/p>\n

Beatty Street \u2013 Hamilton, Hastings<\/p>\n

Beatons Road \u2013 Westport<\/p>\n

Bellenden Crescent \u2013 P\u014dkeno<\/p>\n

\"ALol. (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n

Blowers Place \u2013 Auckland, Christchurch<\/p>\n

Blows Road \u2013 Wakefield<\/p>\n

Bone Crescent \u2013 H\u0101wera<\/p>\n

Bone Road \u2013 Huntly<\/p>\n

Bone Street \u2013 Dunedin<\/p>\n

Bonetti Rise \u2013 Whareora<\/p>\n

Bush Road \u2013 Auckland, Mosgiel, Naenae<\/p>\n

Bush Street \u2013 Levin<\/p>\n

Bush Creek Road \u2013 Arrowtown<\/p>\n

Bush Haven Drive \u2013 Whang\u0101rei<\/p>\n

Bushy Creek Lane \u2013 Pegasus<\/p>\n

\"APrivate! (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n

Bushy Knoll Road \u2013 Manutuke<\/p>\n

Bushyhill Street \u2013 Tapanui<\/p>\n

Busters Creek Road \u2013 Wakefield<\/p>\n

Butts Road \u2013 Dunedin, Milton, Reefton<\/p>\n

Butts Valley Road \u2013 Christchurch<\/p>\n

Buss Street \u2013 Rangiora<\/p>\n

Cockburn Street \u2013 Whang\u0101rei, Auckland, Wellington<\/p>\n

\"AYes, we know it\u2019s pronounced KOH-burn. (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n

Cox Road \u2013 Tuahiwi, Putaruru<\/p>\n

Cox Street \u2013 Ashburton, Christchurch, Cambridge<\/p>\n

Cox Lane \u2013 Amberley<\/p>\n

Coxhead Road \u2013 Auckland, Mangatarata<\/p>\n

Coxs Road \u2013 Canterbury<\/p>\n

Cumberland Rise \u2013 Napier<\/p>\n

Cumming Street \u2013 Okato<\/p>\n

Dick Place \u2013 Onekawa<\/p>\n

Dick Street \u2013 Reefton, Kihikihi and Cambridge<\/p>\n

Dicks Road \u2013 Spring Creek, Sefton<\/p>\n

Dix Street \u2013 Christchurch<\/p>\n

Dix Crescent \u2013 Blenheim<\/p>\n

Donghi Road \u2013 Dannevirke, Ormondville<\/p>\n

Douch Road \u2013 Ohaupo<\/p>\n

Goble Road \u2013 Clarks Beach, Hikutaia, Komata,<\/p>\n

Gooch Place \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

\"A\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n

Handyside Street \u2013 Wellington<\/p>\n

Hard Beech Street \u2013 Takanini<\/p>\n

Hardy Place \u2013 Whitianga\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hood Avenue \u2013 Upper Hutt<\/p>\n

Hood Crescent \u2013 Arrowtown<\/p>\n

Hood Street \u2013 Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Hastings, Rotorua, Whanganui<\/p>\n

Hoods Road \u2013 Mount Somers<\/p>\n

Hoggs Road \u2013 Kuku, Ragiwahia<\/p>\n

Hornes Lane \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Horne Street \u2013 Hamilton<\/p>\n

Horner Street \u2013 Papanui<\/p>\n

Horniblow Road \u2013 Matakohe<\/p>\n

\"ANothing to see here. (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n

Hornsey Road \u2013 Wellington<\/p>\n

Hua Lane \u2013 Orewa<\/p>\n

Hua Place \u2013 Tuakau<\/p>\n

Hua Street \u2013 New Plymouth<\/p>\n

Huruhuru (pubes) Road \u2013 Auckland, Invercargill<\/p>\n

Johnson Place \u2013 Stillwater<\/p>\n

Knobby Road \u2013 Wairio<\/p>\n

Knobby Range Road \u2013 Roxburgh East<\/p>\n

\"AStrictly geographic. (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n

Kopu (undies) Road \u2013 Wairoa, Thames<\/p>\n

Kopu (undies) Drive \u2013 Tauranga<\/p>\n

Laidmore Road \u2013 Broomfield<\/p>\n

Laidmore Way \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Lickfold Lane \u2013 Hamilton<\/p>\n

Lusty Place \u2013 Stoke<\/p>\n

Mound Road \u2013 Broomfield<\/p>\n

Nobs Line \u2013 New Plymouth<\/p>\n

Nobilo Road \u2013 Kumeu<\/p>\n

Pusey Road \u2013 Fairlie<\/p>\n

Rearsby Drive \u2013 Christchurch<\/p>\n

Ride Way \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Ridings Grove \u2013 Richmond<\/p>\n

Ridings Road \u2013 Auckland, Kerepei<\/p>\n

Rocky Nook Ave \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Rod Place \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Root Street \u2013 Gisborne<\/p>\n

Roots Street \u2013 Feilding<\/p>\n

Ruba Way \u2013 Tauranga<\/p>\n

\"ASay it quickly. (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n

Sackville Street \u2013 Auckland, New Plymouth<\/p>\n

Shaftsbury Ave \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Spooner Lane \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Spooners Bush Road \u2013 Wakefield<\/p>\n

Spooners Point \u2013 Wairoa<\/p>\n

Tara Crescent \u2013 Woodend<\/p>\n

Tara Road \u2013 Mangawhai<\/p>\n

Tara Bay Road \u2013 Marlborough Sounds<\/p>\n

Titi Lane \u2013 Silverdale<\/p>\n

\"AJust another street in Silverdale. (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n

Titi Road \u2013 Pukekohe<\/p>\n

Titi Street \u2013 Auckland<\/p>\n

Tutaekara (poo-coloured) Road \u2013 Opotiki, Pahiatua<\/p>\n

Tutaenui (big poo) Road \u2013 Marton<\/p>\n

Ure Road \u2013 Ward<\/p>\n

Ure Street \u2013 Oamaru<\/p>\n

Wee Close \u2013 Cromwell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In search of some levity this week, we\u2019re cataloguing national treasures like Butts Valley Road, Cockburn Street and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3255,42,39024,111,43,185674,20383,2935,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-349759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-address","tag-headlines","tag-humour","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-place-names","tag-roads","tag-society","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}