Hidden History: Opie Street and Gropecunt Lane.

Hidden History: Opie Street and Gropecunt Lane.

Hidden history

Opie Street, nice ring, named thus for a fair while, it gained the name following the death of the famous Regency bonnet wearing writer and philanthropist Amelia Opie. Amelia was born in Colegate in 1769 to fairly well-to-do parents the Aldersons. Her father was a...