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  • Great British placenames: your country needs you to say "WTF?"
  • MikeT-23
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    Just doing some research for work on the old Google maps, and noticing some oddly named places. It got me to wondering just how many there are around the country.
    The emphasis is, of course, on Anglicised versions, as they would be likely to be most easily misinterpreted, and therefore amusing.

    Three examples from the countryside just north of Arbroath:

    Drunkendub – the new sound for booze-hounds?

    Boysack – not a place I wish to spend any time around.

    Kinell – missing an apostrophe at the front, and an exclamation mark at the end, but we understand.

    So, who's got any more? This could be a bit of fun.

    ernie_lynch
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    Drac
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    There's a site some where that lists them all in your area.

    geoffj
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    uplink – snooze and you lose 😆

    geoffj
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    MikeT-23
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    Hey – no duplications please.
    I'm always keen to see a Twatt, and two at one time would be heaven, but in circumstances far different from this.
    Thanks though – I'll take that idea away for some 'consideration'.

    matthew_h
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    There'sa spot near Longtown in Cumbria called Wide Open Dykes which always made me chuckle

    TimP
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    Six Mile Bottom, nr Newmarket

    thejesmonddingo
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    Within 8 miles of me,Penistone and Wombwell.
    Ian

    MrWoppit
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    Shellow Bowells. Essex.

    MikeT-23
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    In Banffshire:

    Fattahead – …than whom?

    Oldwhat – git, perhaps?

    Slacks of Cairnbanno – on a hanger, next to his cardigans!

    steelytail
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    Yetts o'Muckhart (Clackmannanshire)
    Findo Gask (Perthshire)

    orena45
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    Water-ma-trout (Helston, Cornwall)

    Makes me chuckle everytime I pass through Helston 😀

    Zedsdead
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    "Drunkendub – the new sound for booze-hounds?

    Boysack – not a place I wish to spend any time around.

    Kinell – missing an apostrophe at the front, and an exclamation mark at the end, but we understand."

    I grew up just around the corner from them all. Yup – we always sniggered too…..

    Moses
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    Hooray for Cockermouth, Cumbria

    4ndyB
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    Bell End, Hereford and Worcester DY9, UK

    schrickvr6
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    Clitheroe and Cockermouth are two of my faves.

    Rex
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    Dingdong and Ventongimps in Cornwall. Oh, and Goon Gumpus while I'm at it.

    B.A.Nana
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    The Land of Nod nr Holme on splading Moor, East Yorkshire

    I used to work in Ramsbottom, although we always called it SheepsArse.

    CountZero
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    Dorset's got Piddletrenthide and Afpiddle, which are on the River Piddle, as is Tolpuddle, which should be Tolpiddle, but got censored.
    [edit] There's Lord Hereford's Knob, near Hay-on-Wye, as well.[/edit]

    jj55
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    jj55
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    grumm
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    If you go to Gisburn you can see Cocklick End, Slack and Tosside.

    Ambrose
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    Breasty Haws in the Lakes.
    Chipshop in Devon.

    neilsonwheels
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    Barton in the beans.

    Little hampton

    The slaughters

    muddy@rseguy
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    Matching Tye in Essex

    jj55
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    crazy-legs
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    Munqe-chick
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    Fingerinhoe in Essex! always makes (and still does) me smile! 😀

    timwillows
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    Fan y Big in the Beacons SO 0365 2066

    crispybacon
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    A road sign I used to pass said…

    Cobham, Fetcham & Bookham

    & a local village near to where i now live is called 'Clitters' ……… Snigger

    Elmo
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    Ausrtrians do it better!

    RustySpanner
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    Nob End near Radcliffe.

    Slack Bottom, just above Hebden.

    God, I love this country

    Susie
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    Butt Hole Lane

    B.A.Nana
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    Fanny Street in Saltaire was always very amusing as a child (I think she was one of Titus Salts daughters).

    gonetothehills
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    I think you need this book:

    Hours of endless fun! They have many others to their name as well – all available from Amazon…

    Steelfreak
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    There's a place called 'Twatt' in the Orkney Isles…

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