Imagine telling people you live in Mucky Lane, Long Tongue Scrog Lane, Solid or Catherine Slack!

Huddersfield is a town with a 4,000 year history and probably as many streets.

We can all have a good guess where Wakefield Road, Valley Court and Victoria Avenue got their names - but what of the more bizarre ones, like Twinge Lane in Halifax, Paris in Scholes and Doubting Lane in Dewsbury?

Historian George Redmonds says in the past, street and place names could be descriptive, such as Mucky Lane and Old Earth in Elland.

Or they were borrowed from prominent cities like Leeds, York and London, as the Ramsden family, who owned the manor of Huddersfield, did in the 1800s. Threadneedle Street in the town centre was taken from the street in London which houses the Bank of England.

He said: "It was done as you might name a child - you sat down and said, 'What shall we call it?'

Mr Redmonds believes Solid in Lockwood came from saliht, an Old English word meaning 'growing with willows', but he said: "There are no early spellings so we can't be sure."

And although it's a bizarre name, he says the origins of Long Tongue Scrog Lane are quite unremarkable.

He said: "Scrog is a dialect word meaning scrubby - the lane is Scrog Lane, but it runs along a narrow field which looks like a long tongue!"

Mr Redmonds has written a book about where Huddersfield place names come from - and he can explain how Scapegoat Hill got its name.

He said: " It used to be Slipcote Hill. It was an area of pasture in a manor until it was opened up to settlement in the late 1700s.

"It's likely the people who went to live there felt they had been sent into the wilderness, like the Old Testament scapegoat - so we can speculate that's where the name came from!"

There are also some pretty cheeky sounding street names in the Huddersfield area - click here to take a look!