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Silly place names

Post 1

Bilbobilbo

There is a village in north yorkshire called Swine, anybody know any stranger or sillier place names?


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Post 2

The Snockerty Friddle

Place called Twat in Scotland.


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Post 3

Jimbob - Got a Favourite Band? Tell Us All About It at A2464355

I did hear of a place in Suffolk called Bell End.

smiley - laugh


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Post 4

dancinglady (Life's truest happiness is found in the friendships we make along the way)

Barcelona airport is in a place called El Prat


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Post 5

Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo.

*considers capitalising certain letters Scunthorpe*

There's a mountain in Wales called Lord Hereford's Knob smiley - laugh

Liam.


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Post 6

FunkyP.

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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Post 7

EleS - far too ordinary to have an interesting nic

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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Post 8

Coniraya

There is a village in East Anglia called Ugly!


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Post 9

Agapanthus

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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Post 10

Coniraya

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 smiley - winkeye


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Post 11

Mu Beta

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.

B


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Post 12

Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk

You can come to a Rotten End in Essex. smiley - laugh
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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Post 13

Mu Beta

Oh, if we're onto foreign cities, let's not forget Phuket.

B


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Post 14

Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents.

Near to where I live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, we have:

Bird-In-Hand
Blue Ball
Intercourse

and five miles down the road...

Paradise. smiley - winkeye

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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Post 15

Researcher U197087

Felch, Michigan smiley - biggrin

(Well not all at once, for goodness' sake smiley - yuk)


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Post 16

Wiro

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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Post 17

Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for)

I had always though that Intercourse, Pennsylvania was a made up name smiley - laugh


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Post 18

OETZI

Think I've got lots of unknown relatives in PA


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Post 19

Sierra Indigo - now Cheesecakethulhu flavoured

Iron Knob is one of the better ones from Australia.


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Post 20

Mu Beta

smiley - laugh Very macho Aussie name, that.

B


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