page_title: Lovers' lane
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Lovers' lane / Examples
caption_attribution_description: English: Road sign for Love Lane, Marldon, Devon, United Kingdom
context_page_description: A lovers' lane is a secluded area where people kiss, make out, or engage in sexual activity. These areas range from parking lots in secluded rural areas to places with extraordinary views of a cityscape or other feature.
  "Lovers' lanes" are typically found in cultures built around the automobile—lovers often make out in a car or van for privacy.
  Lovers' lanes have existed for centuries, sometimes as places for secret meetings with a forbidden lover or as a euphemism for red-light districts and other areas of prostitution.
  The Oxford English Dictionary records use of the phrase "lovers' lane" from 1853.
context_section_description: There are several streets called Lovers Lane, including those at Oriskany, New York; Whitmire, South Carolina; Manitou Springs, Colorado; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Kersey, Pennsylvania; Boonville, New York; Greenfield, Massachusetts; Southborough, Massachusetts; Northfield, Vermont; Riverton, Utah; Steubenville, Ohio; Bowling Green, Kentucky; Portage, Michigan; Excelsior Springs, Missouri; Springfield, Missouri; Charlestown, New Hampshire; Sugar Hill, New Hampshire; Princeton, New Jersey; Slatington, Pennsylvania; Adliya, Bahrain; Dallas, Texas; Texarkana, Texas; Ravenna Township, Portage County, Ohio; Visalia, California; El Segundo, California, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Ancaster, Ontario; Newark-on-Trent; Ludham (both in England) and Thurso, Scotland.
  Lovers Lane station is a DART Light Rail station in Dallas, Texas.
  Lover's Lane Bridge is a historic bridge spanning the Dog River in Berlin, Vermont.
  Lovers Lane is a famous road in St. Joseph, Missouri of which a popular poem by Eugene Field was written.
  The area on the south-east side of Fullers Bridge, which crosses the Lane Cove River, and is located near Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, is a well-known Lovers' Lane.
  The bowdlerised version Love Lane is sometimes seen. Jowett Walk, Oxford, once had this name.
caption: Road sign for Love Lane in Marldon, Devon, United Kingdom.
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