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Bilbobilbo Started conversation Oct 6, 2003
There is a village in north yorkshire called Swine, anybody know any stranger or sillier place names?
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Jimbob - Got a Favourite Band? Tell Us All About It at A2464355 Posted Oct 6, 2003
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dancinglady (Life's truest happiness is found in the friendships we make along the way) Posted Oct 6, 2003
Barcelona airport is in a place called El Prat
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Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo. Posted Oct 6, 2003
*considers capitalising certain letters Scunthorpe*
There's a mountain in Wales called Lord Hereford's Knob
Liam.
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FunkyP. Posted Oct 6, 2003
There is a place in Dorset which I think has a beautiful, really unusual name - it's called Ryme Intrinseca.
Now I live in Wales, and silly names abound - Kidwelly, Stepaside, Ystradgynlais... now I've just offended all Welsh H2G2 users in one easy step. Oops.
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EleS - far too ordinary to have an interesting nic Posted Oct 6, 2003
Don't forget Wyre Piddle in Worcestershire. And in Oxfordshire there's a place called Lew but my favourite has got to be Squitchey Lane in Oxford itself.
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Agapanthus Posted Oct 6, 2003
Oooh, I know lots. There's Gussage All Saints, Gussage St. Michael and Gussage St Andrew, all in Dorset; there's the River Piddle, which is also called the Trent, I assume to stop people sniggering; Over Wallop, Middle Wallop and Nether Wallop, in Hampshire; Ecclefechan, in Scotland, where Carlysle was born, which always sounds to me like a drunk Glaswegian swearing (cf Billy Connolly); Martins Heron near Reading (who was Martin adn why his heron?); Crapstone in Devon - can you imagine having to tell people you live in Crapstone? And there's a tiny village called California on the Norfolk coast and I've always wondered why.
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Coniraya Posted Oct 6, 2003
Prats Bottom in Kent always used to have us in near hysterics as kids whenever Dad drove through it.
In fact any village name that had Bottom in it would do. The simple joys of life before colour tv
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Mu Beta Posted Oct 6, 2003
Gerrards Cross (is he?)
Nob End in Manchester
Butte, Montana
and my personal two identicall-challenged villages in Lincolnshire
Newton Bytoft and Toft-next-Newton.
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Oct 6, 2003
You can come to a Rotten End in Essex.
But seriously, I spotted this place called Rotten End when I was absent-mindedly perusing a map of my local area.
I've always thought that Chorlton cum Hardy in Manchester was quite a funny name.
My personal favourites, though, are two cities in Turkey. One of them is called Van, which is pretty odd. The other one, however, is called Batman, which is superb! They're not even small places, you can sometimes spot them on world maps, and certainly maps of Europe.
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Mu Beta Posted Oct 6, 2003
Oh, if we're onto foreign cities, let's not forget Phuket.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Oct 6, 2003
Near to where I live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, we have:
Bird-In-Hand
Blue Ball
Intercourse
and five miles down the road...
Paradise.
There's a place in New York called Yonkers. A place in Maryland called Hope. There's also a place in Pennsylvania called Rough And Ready. Which I find absolutely hilarious for no reason whatsoever.
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Wiro Posted Oct 6, 2003
wel tehre a few places in scotland taht happen to contain my 1st name
blairdrummond
dis blair
blair
all of which i have seen on roadsigns....
then a pointless poloticion ruined it
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Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Oct 6, 2003
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Sierra Indigo - now Cheesecakethulhu flavoured Posted Oct 6, 2003
Iron Knob is one of the better ones from Australia.
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- 1: Bilbobilbo (Oct 6, 2003)
- 2: The Snockerty Friddle (Oct 6, 2003)
- 3: Jimbob - Got a Favourite Band? Tell Us All About It at A2464355 (Oct 6, 2003)
- 4: dancinglady (Life's truest happiness is found in the friendships we make along the way) (Oct 6, 2003)
- 5: Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo. (Oct 6, 2003)
- 6: FunkyP. (Oct 6, 2003)
- 7: EleS - far too ordinary to have an interesting nic (Oct 6, 2003)
- 8: Coniraya (Oct 6, 2003)
- 9: Agapanthus (Oct 6, 2003)
- 10: Coniraya (Oct 6, 2003)
- 11: Mu Beta (Oct 6, 2003)
- 12: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Oct 6, 2003)
- 13: Mu Beta (Oct 6, 2003)
- 14: Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. (Oct 6, 2003)
- 15: Researcher U197087 (Oct 6, 2003)
- 16: Wiro (Oct 6, 2003)
- 17: Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) (Oct 6, 2003)
- 18: OETZI (Oct 6, 2003)
- 19: Sierra Indigo - now Cheesecakethulhu flavoured (Oct 6, 2003)
- 20: Mu Beta (Oct 6, 2003)
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