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

We have a place in Neath called Giants Grave . Can you imagine how big the hole would be?

Also there's a town by Harrogate called Glasshouses, which has a publishers called *People In Glasshouses*

And then in Dorset you have Glue Hill

Mad or what

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CHeEky

Hummmm let me see, there are two villages in Sussex.....

Upper and Lower Dicker. i am sure theres more but its too early and I need my beddie byes... If i think of any more I'll let you know!! Nite nite all

And then there's a place called Burton Coggles, on the way up to Newark.... which is an interesting anagram if you like that sort of thing.

My parents live near Six Mile Bottom which I'm amazed no one has mentioned yet.

I'm a bit sceptical about some of these names. Especially the ones supposed to be in foreign parts .... Captain Pugwash syndrome, I suspect. ( http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm )

I like the one I tore two ligaments in, Moorooduc in Victoria, Australia. For some reason only us scouts seemed to pick up the anmals mentioned, the leaders all thought it was a perfectly normal name. Moo-roo-duc. Just cause I'm bored I feel like explaining this, "Moo" as in a cow, "roo" as in a kangaroo and "duc" as in a duck.

There were some others I knew, but i can't remember them now.

Cat

In denmark, there is a town which translates as 'Sperm-buttock' (Sædballe). We also have a 'Pissing-brook' (Pisseåen), an 'Intestine' (Tarm), a 'Male Member' (Lem) and a 'Gay-town' (Bøsserup). Guess all the good names were taken...

Finally, some Danes can say that they really live in the Country-side, since we have a town by that name (Landet).

Wyre Piddle!
Nempnett Thrubwell!

back to the West Country

In Ireland we have many prosaic names such as Nobber, Termonfeckin, Wellingtonbridge, New Twopothouse, Horse and Jockey, Skeheenarinky, Kill, Kilcock, Leixlip, Roaringwater Bay, Stonybatter, Hospital, Ballylickey, Lixsnaw, Skibbereen.

Woodpigeon

And Spidel, in Connemara,don't forget

There's a road in Harrogate called Dragon View. Ace.

Also a village in Buckinghamshire called Stone. Presumably because there's nothing more interesting to say about it.

(Would it be childish of me to mention Quimper in France?)

In a lovely village not far from me is a place called Bell End Farm.

Great Snoring, Norfolk

Killiecrankie, Perth and Kinross (The Crankies aren't THAT bad!!)

The Bog, Shropshire

Wham, North Yorkshire

I'm cheating a little these aren't mine - I got them from

http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/place_names.htm

Or Ballinspittle, of moving statues fame.

Fray Bentos, Uruguay.

Which came first, the town or the pie?

Flappy Flapz, a place in Germany I just made up.

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Whetwang in east yorkshire. And going back to a posting from last week, I'm from Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and believe me, it's not funny.

In and around Sheffield there are plenty

Penistone
Carsick
Dungworth

How does it feel
to be on your own
like a Rollestone

Isn't Ballinspittle near Knock?

I saw these on tv and thought of this thread

Monkey's eyebrow in Kentuky I think, USA

Lizard Lick in North Carolina, USA

Backlog tyula, backlog. Go and check out post 44 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=326507&skip=40&show=20 turvy

- tyla not tyula.

And I grew up in West Didsbury which is next to Chorlton-cum-Hardy. Small world eh?

turvy