Jennel, ginnel or alley or back passage

[StanleyT]

So in South Yorkswe had jennels which were the pathways between roads for only pedestrians. The lane between the two up / two downs where your back yard went onto was always the back passage. /Finbar Saunders mode off.

Yet nowhere else have I heard Jennel, Stoke and 'Nam use ginnel, alley seems commeon and Manchester and Lancaster used back passage for the pathways and alley for the back road. Confusing. What is it elsewhere?

[Cold]

Servants' quarters.

[browno]

Here in Derbyshire there is a mixture with Ginnel and Gitty being the most used locally... (and fierce debate as to which is right!)

[bigmowley]

Snicket where I come from (Lancaster)

[magooagain]

Twitchel,pathway between houses.

[Pericoloso]

Placare.

[Dogwatch]

Twitten, in Sussex.

When I lived in Surrey the long (tarred) paths down hillsides from one part of town to another were called Chutes. I never saw the word written down so the spelling is whatever you like it to be!

[Wacky Racer]

Entry (Manchester)

[eldar]

Snickets, sometime sneckets or byes in West Cumbria.

[soxboy]

North Yorkshire
Ginnel: passageway between buildings
Snicket: passageway between gardens or similar green space.

[Doofus]

The bit between two houses is called a"field", or "woodland". (Royal Berkshire)

[Moonhawk]

‘Alley’ for a passage between roads.

‘Entry’ for the passage that runs at the back of terraced houses.

I’m from Birkenhead.

[PositronicRay]

Moonhawk said:

‘Alley’ for a passage between roads.

‘Entry’ for the passage that runs at the back of terraced houses.

I’m from Birkenhead.

This is the correct answer.

[MB140]

I’m from Notts, always a gitty where I’m from. My wife’s family is from Lancaster way and that was ginnels, in Stamford where they live now it’s an ally way.

[Cotty]

alleyway in South London

[glenrobbo]

It's called "Anal".

HTH

[JeremyH5]

browno said:

Here in Derbyshire there is a mixture with Ginnel and Gitty being the most used locally... (and fierce debate as to which is right!)

Hadn’t heard Gitty before until yesterday in Southwell, Notts.
And I lived in Bakewell area for 25 years!

[Halmyre]

Vennels or closes in Scotland, although a 'close' in Glasgow is the access to a back green in a block of tenement flats rather than a through route.

[Moonhawk]

Halmyre said:

Vennels or closes in Scotland, although a 'close' in Glasgow is the access to a back green in a block of tenement flats rather than a through route.

A 'close' in the north west is another name for a cul-de-sac

[Cliftonite]

Northampton: jitty.