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  • Amusing Place names in Great Britain
  • oliverd1981
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    Fanny Hands Lane in Lincolnshire – made me stop the car.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    rossi46
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    Just on the other side of the Thames from me is Foulness Island and Burnham On Crouch.
    Always makes me titter….

    white101
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    One of my customers is a dental practice is a place just outside of Newcastle called Wideopen Dental Practice

    And many moons back I went to a place in Canada called Lake Minniewanka

    TPTcruiser
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    rossi46
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    Have an accountants near me called Clinker Little 😆

    Daniel
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    rossi46
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    Near Midhurst in West Sussex….

    Or there’s always the Wibbley Wobbley floating pub in Rotherhithe, East London!

    ChrisL
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    I liked this one as a kid, it was just along from my granddad’s house:

    I never saw any yellow and red cars parked there, though. 🙁

    ThurmanMerman
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    It gets

    between Bishop’s Stortford and Stevenage.

    ds1
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    mt
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    Penistone any one?

    40mpg
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    My regular roadie route takes me through Nomansland

    to Lover

    past the eye watering

    and finally Milkham Bottom

    Well, it brings a little pleasure to a couple of hours of pain 😕

    gavtheoldskater
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    ‘ding dong’ is just up the lane from me, but the one i wonder why its called thus is a few miles awaw ‘knave go by’.

    rossi46
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    I remember passing this school in Wedmore, Somerset after getting lost near Wells once.
    There is also a pub called Sexeys Arms, and it’s all situated on Sexey Road.
    In the appropriately named Wedmore village 😆

    Shak47
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    Bawdrip in Somerset, driving down to Glastonbury from Scotland for the festival we used to pass a sign to the place, always raised a laugh.

    bearnecessities
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    A must-know for any from the South West, can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned!

    ..and one spotted when back in the day of the free life of a young Sky engineer; no luck googling any images I’m afraid, it was a very small lane 🙂 so this will have to do as evidence:

    Incidentally, doing that that job we once visted a Mr Gardener that lived in Uphill; well, it amused us then…

    ThurmanMerman
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    I remember passing this school in Wedmore, Somerset

    Think you’ll find our very own Chipps was a Sexey’s scholar (in Bruton, though, not Wedmore).

    thecrookofdevon
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    Just up the road from me there is a ‘fanny burn’.

    tomc
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    I live in Crapstone.

    The next village along is Leg O’ Mutton.

    stavromuller
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    Well if we are going to allow cheating

    One for Red Riding Hood

    zokes
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    There’s always Wagga Wagga in NSW, if we’re letting foreigners in.

    geologist
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    Can we make this a sticky for future additions? it great 🙂

    oldfart
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    I’ve rode trails in Sticky Forest in Wanaka NZ

    pennine
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    Moorcock Inn between Sedbergh & Hawes

    stavromuller
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    Mrs S loves Moorcock Inn (phnar, phnar)

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Does that pub serve Cider?

    Cougar
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    A must-know for any from the South West, can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned!

    Nor can I, cunningly hidden as it was in the OP.

    (-:

    rossi46
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    Hilgay- a parish of Norfolk…..

    rossi46
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    I ride past this road quite often when im heading for the North Downs- it’s just up the road from me 😀

    MrAgreeable
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    Usually ridden in embarrassed silence.

    frosty87
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    I bet she does!

    Probably down the old lane

    johnellison
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    Two areas of moorland called Bog Eggs and Tom Tittiman up on the tops above Hebden Bridge.

    Dick Lane in Cowling near Keighley.

    Fartown in Huddersfield.

    One of my local pubs is the Fighting Cocks. Known locally as the Pugilistic P***ses. Or the Scrapping Dicks.

    rossi46
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    One of my local pubs is the Fighting Cocks

    My local is called that too!

    Tom Tittiman up on the tops above Hebden Bridge

    Isn’t there a spot on the map next to there called ‘Peckett Well’ ?? 😆

    rossi46
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    Tom Tittiman up on the tops above Hebden Bridge.

    Isn’t there a spot on the map next to there called ‘Peckett Well’ ??

    So many amusing places on one map! 😆 😆 😆

    IHN
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    This very evening I shall be riding near Slutswell. I may also be coming into Tomtits Bottom 🙂

    Oh, and I’ll be finishing with refreshing drink of Butcombe

    pennine
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    One of Sir Titus Salt’s daughter’s I believe

    JonHood
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    Nasty and Ugley in Herts/Essex.

    Famous local Newspaper headline “Nasty man Marries Ugley woman”

    leggyblonde
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    There’s a Lower Dicker too

    matttromans
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    There is a lane in Oxford that nowadays goes by the very respectable name of Magpie Lane….However, it used to be Oxfords Redlight District and was called Gropec?nt Lane….
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie_Lane,_Oxford

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