h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Would that be part of the iron man. Perhaps a trophy?

Lovely roadsign outside Ramsgate, pointing to Ham and Sandwich. Very Famous. Whilst in NW Cornwall, I passed through Washaway, Pityme, Rock and Splatt, all near Padstow, Lank near Wadebridge, Greensplat near St. Austell, Little Comfort near Launceston and, of course, the highest spot on Bodmin Moor, Brown Willy!!!!! and that was just on holiday last week.

Scuttle

There's 'Badgers mount' near to Pratts Bottom in Kent....

I grew up in a village called Little Snoring, there's also a Great Snoring...

The various towns with 'Piddle' in the name in Dorset always makes me giggle!

There's 'Badgers mount' near to Pratts Bottom in Kent....

I grew up in a village called Little Snoring, there's also a Great Snoring...

The various towns with 'Piddle' in the name in Dorset always makes me giggle!

Splott, in Cardiff I think. Apparently, and without any irony, a contraction of God's Plot

There's a Scagglethorpe between Malton and Scarborough. As thorpe means village, I've often idly wondered who or what Scaggle was in the dim and distant past?

Carlops, south of Edinburgh - what's all that about then?

Yes - the Dorset Piddles... Piddletrenthide, Piddlehinton. There is also a River Piddle, known locally as 'The Trent' by the more polite people.

There is a village called Shitterton, pronounced 'Chitterton' by the well-to-do residents!

Lots of Puddles too - Tolpuddle, Briantspuddle, Puddletown...

Hmmm, is there anywhere in the world like good ol' Dorset?!

Down near the Hampshire/Sussex Border there's a place called, and I swear this is true:

The Land of Nod

What a fantastic postal address that would be.

My friends from Manchester seemed to think that my home village of Worplesdon was funny as well.

Oh, and there's a suburb of Nottingham called Bunny. Why?

Another from Dorsetshire, where there is a little village called Plush

Truth be told, any entry in The Meaning of Liff. They're all highly amusing.

Surely I can't be the only one to notice the broelan's entry on Knob Lick is one the front page today....



Geggs

On the train from Sheffield to Manchester on Sunday (just about), we stopped at a village called Hope. Presumably the people who got off at that stop 'live in Hope'.

Burntisland (Fife, in Scotland)
Wide Open (near Newcastle)
Flushing Meadows (New York)
Toker's Green (Oxfordshire)

from yahoo news:

French villages with funny names form a united front. Only villages "with suggestive names that evoke a smile, a laugh, or have a singsong folkloric name" can take part, say organizers.

Among the 15 or so villages joining the event in the southwestern village of Mengesebes (Eat Onions in Occitan, an old language from the south of France) are: Saligos (which sounds like Filthy Swine), Montcuq (sounds like My Arse) and Trecon (Very Stupid).

In the south west there is of course the French (small) village Condom.

That reminds me - there's a village in either Germany or Austria called F*****g.

Once lived near a Chorleywood Bottom (Herts.) also seen a Bottom Head (Lancs.) and Bottomcraig (Fife)

Once saw a sign for a No-mans-land (somewhere on dartmoor or exmoor i think?)

I don't think we've had Ashby-de-la-Zouch
also try searching on multimap.com i've found a Coxhoe and Coxtie

and for South Park fans there's KilKenny in Ireland

Or, indeed, South Park in Oxford.

B

I live not too far from Wyre Piddle - there's also a Middle Piddle and a Little Piddle.
There's also a village in Cornwall called Ding Dong.

Theres also Wombwell and Penistone in Barnsley. And a Grimethorpe too.

Agapanthus asks:
>> Martins Heron near Reading (who was Martin adn why his heron?) <<

And I speculate:
Martins is often an anglicised form of 'matins', the French for morning and is also the name for prayers said at that time of day. Originally it meant midnight, was later moved back to 2am and is now generally considered dawn, which coincides nicely with herons eating breakfast. Unless the earlier midnight notion suggests 'black' herons or very large bats on stilts.



I note that there have been several mentions of HOPE. Amy mentioned one in Maryland, USA and there was at least one in England. (I don't have all the postings in front of me.)

But if HOPE is to really qualify for 'SILLY place name' status I have to cast my vote for HOPE, Nevada. Not just because it is so near to Lost Wages, Nevada but because it is on an Indian reservation.



~jwf~

How about Giggleswick (North England somewhere, not quite sure where), the largest settlement (I think) to experience the last-but-one solar eclipse visible from a major chunk of the UK.