Villagers Opt to Keep Cowshit Lane

LONDON (Reuters) - It is not the sort of address most people would want but a group of English villagers has turned down a proposal to rename Cowshit Lane.

The name stirred controversy when the village of Golant in southwest England decided to have a map drawn up for visitors.

"I live there and I have no objection to the name," local council chairman Alistair Barr was quoted as saying by the Times newspaper Friday.

"Some others have suggested renaming it Cowslip Lane, which I don't agree with."

Douglas Cooper, Barr's predecessor as chairman, staid: "I only wish I lived there because I could put it on my headed notepaper."

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