a twitten... in Sussex
Interesting that bears out the Dialect Dictionary. As g eli says, counties around Derbyshire, but then the dictionary suggests a sneaky line through eastern England, somehow reaching Sussex.
Whitby, North Yorkshire has narrow alleyways, generally leading down to the river/harbour, known as ghauts
Whitby seems closer to snicket country but this is something different. The Dialect Dictionary gives it under Gaut, a water channel, a mill-wheel channel OR a narrow passage.
https://archive.org/details/englishdialectdi02wrig/page/580/mode/2upNow, suddenly I recognise that word as Goit, a mill-wheel channel. There were scores of them around Sheffield, where five rivers converge with numerous mills forging and grinding metal goods. It does not appear in the Dialect Dictionary with that meaning, only as a way or a road. (In Scotland, from Norse.)
but we'd just as often say snicket
My mother used snicket - I'm not sure where she acquired that from. Having read all this I would say possibly her grandmother from Cleckheaton.
