Google users searching for a sex toy have been left baffled when their search brings up an 18th Century listed building in Huddersfield.
Heritage database Huddersfield Exposed has reported that its entry on Cock Ring has pulled in a few extra website visits.
Much to the disappointment of some searchers arriving at a page, normally the domain of history buffs, it details the history of a listed building in Slaithwaite, Huddersfield.
Writing on Twitter, Huddersfield Exposed said: "A big shout out to everyone who has searched for "cock ring" on Google and clicked through to Huddersfield Exposed.
"Hope you found what you were looking for!"
The entry on the history database for Cock Ring states that it is a Grade II listed property located at Cop Hill Side, Slaithwaite, which dates back to the 18th Century.
It is made up of two former cottages and a barn and was first listed in 1985.
The property, overlooking the Colne Valley, has since been modernised and landscaped.
It's not clear how or why it was given the name..
Slaithwaite's Cock Ring gets its own entry on the Historic England database and is one of many weird and wonderful place names in Huddersfield and, indeed, the Yorkshire area.
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Among them are Long Tongue Scrog Lane at Houses Hill, Huddersfield, and Bog Green Lane in Upper Heaton, Huddersfield.
'Scrog' is a dialect word meaning scrubby.
And it runs along a narrow field that looks like a long tongue, apparently.
There is also Dog Kennel Bank and Berry Brow's Deadmanstone, both to be found in Huddersfield.
In Lockwood, Huddersfield, visitors will find Solid, which may have got its name from willow trees that once grew nearby – It may have come from saliht, an Old English word meaning 'growing with willows', although historians cannot be certain.
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