There are four Friday Streets in Suffolk, possibly more than any other county.  One of them (in Mildenhall) has records going back to 1450.  While looking into this I noted this comment in PN Glouc 2.176:  “a frequent name for roads leading to gallows etc.”.   This raises two questions:

1.      Is there any hard evidence for the gallows connection?   I cannot find any such examples.

2.      What does “etc.” mean?  (guillotines?!)

Keith