Our searchers this week have been focusing on Leicestershire family history, and several census returns and other sources show an intriguing address of "Pudding Bag", or "Puddingbag" in the parish of Blaby.
There are suggestions that this could represent a dialect word for a cul-de-sac, although no ideas put forward of how this name came about. In fact, further investigation finds this address name still represented in modern day Leicestershire with Pudding Bag Lane in Kings Norton and Shepshed, as well as in Thuralston in Warwickshire, Pilsgate in Lincolnshire, and Exton in Rutland.
And the feature which links them all? They are all cul-de-sacs.
