What do you call a passageway between houses?

NickBotfield

And where are you from? (I promise this isn’t some long winded scam to get credit card details.)

I call at an entry and my partner calls it a ginnel, we’re both from Lancashire. 

WezV

alley or jitty round here

Gandalph

Your partner is correct. 

Yorkshire.

robbs1977

Ginnel

Danny1969

Ginnel sounds like something a hipster puts in his herb coffee. It's an alley. 

mrkb

Gandalph said:

Your partner is correct. 

Yorkshire.

Then surely its "T' ginnel"

strumjoughlamps

g(j)itty in Leicester 

guitars4you

Funnily enough I call it a passageway 

A jitty to me is a path between say 2 roads, often between a number of houses - Kind of a short cut

Sporky

Depends where it goes. If it's a public footpath then it's an alley or alleyway. If it goes to one or other house somehow then it's a passageway. 

Supportact

'Side alleyway' or passage. Grew up in Hertfordshire. 

drofluf

Servants' entrance

munckee

I'm south coast based and it would be called alley as opposed to a 'back alley' which runs behind houses, alhough when my mum has her posh voice on a back alley would be a 'service road'.

jackio

Twitchel-Notts

guitars4you

munckee said:

I'm south coast based and it would be called alley as opposed to a 'back alley' which runs behind houses, alhough when my mum has her posh voice on a back alley would be a 'service road'.

If I Googled 'back alley' I'd be worried about the options offered to me 

ewal

We've got plenty of Vennels in Perth town centre. But path, passageway or lane at a push in more residential contexts.

Stratavarious

'Ginnel' often used around here.

Alley, passage or passageway would be more generic if used by public to access a lane, etc.

joneve

NickBotfield said:

And where are you from? (I promise this isn’t some long winded scam to get credit card details.)

I call at an entry and my partner calls it a ginnel, we’re both from Lancashire. 

a what and a what?! 

It's an alley or an alleyway (originally from East Mids/Lincs, now living in Gloucestershire)

VimFuego

the Portal!

bluecat

I grew up in East Yorkshire, we always called it an alley or alleyway. The first time I heard it called a ginnel was in West Yorkshire. 

JezWynd

It's called a twitten in Sussex. In Norfolk they call it a loke.

Snap

NickBotfield said:

And where are you from? (I promise this isn’t some long winded scam to get credit card details.)

I call at an entry and my partner calls it a ginnel, we’re both from Lancashire. 

Being also from Lancs, I agree. However, here in Sheffield, they call it a jennel. But then, they also call baps breadcakes. Weirdos.