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Great British placenames: your country needs you to say "WTF?"
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The lakes and the Dales are full of them..
Giggleswick
Wigglesworth
Blubberhouses
Valley of Desolation (near bolton abbey)Then near me there is Harden (pronouced Hard 'un) and just west of harden is Bents Head, Middle Bents and lower Bents (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idld.srf?X=408335&Y=436855&A=Y&Z=120&lm=1)
Then there is of course Hawes (pronounced Whores) just east of which there is:
buttersett bottomsand north a bit is:
"crackpot" which is a hot spot for odd names (Blea Barf, Middle Tongue and Bloody Vale are all within 3km!)And they are the ones I can think of straight off - a map of Yorkshire is a gold mine for these, especially as you get closer to the border with [spit] lancashire as it all gets a bit weird in the borderlands!
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I spent my formative years in a place called Upper Cound - which caused great hilarity among a certain type when I was asked where I came from.
Two more: Jolly's Bottom and Green Bottom - just outside Truro
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Heres an nice one after all those rude ones:
(http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=rest+and+be+thankfull&countryCode=GB#map=56.22729,-4.85078|14|4&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:56.22696:-4.86039:14|rest and be thankfull|)
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Near Clit-heroe you have rimington, and the other side of gisburn is Wham
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Two areas near to where i was born
upper Sharpenhoe[theres a lower Sharpenhoe too] & Higham gobianPosted 2 years ago # -
Cockburnspath in the Scottish Borders
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MFCat - where are these roads?
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Ugley in Herts.
Cross in somerset
Beer in Devon
Upper Dicker in Surrey.
Great Snoring in Norfolk
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Cum, County Mayo, Ireland
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Seldom seen (near hadians wall).
Twice brewed (and once brewed, again near hadians wall.Also saw a place call Mount St Bernard, which i presume wasn't an instruction, can't remember where though.
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Long Itchington near Coventry.
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Smearbottoms Lane, Malham.
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Chipshop, Devon
(have I already said this?)
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And Cheddar, Wenslydale, Caerphilly- but not Cheshire, Leicester or Stilton.
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Lickey End near Bromsgrove.
Then there are Pratts Bottom and Badgers Mount in Kent.
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There's a place by us called Pallet Swanted and another called Cyclists Dismount.
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Theres a place called Barend somewhere near Dumfries which made me chuckle and there is a place (cant remember if its north of glasgow or east of penrith) called maidens paps, two similarly dome shaped hillocks. (pap being slang for breast)
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There is a frosty neb near us.
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Turning to the South West
Nempnett Thrubwell
Long Load
Velvet Bottom
Butcombe
Pennycomequick
Broadwoodwidger
Looe
Flushing
Sticker
Westward Ho!Posted 2 years ago # -
Nempnett Thrubwell
and nearby, a name I consider superior, Hinton Blewitt.
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another not British but how could you resist a quiet night by the fire in..
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?zoom=14&countryCode=AT&lat=48.0675400849493&lon=12.8625273956654#map=47.56284,-53.54858|12|4&bd=useful_information&loc=CA:47.56284:-53.54858:12|dildo|Dildo,%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador,%20CanadaPosted 2 years ago # -
I drove through a place called "The Shoe" on Monday, near Chippenham.
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Sally's Bottom - Cornwall
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@Saccades
Mount St. Bernard is an abbey, about 2 miles from me, right now!
I could go there the long way, via Butt Hole Lane (really!) or go the slightly less long way along a street called The Land of Two Rivers.Ok, they're not place names, but they are pretty bizarre.
We also have a Slash Lane nearby, if anyone feels the need...
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There's some good combinations
Hitchin, Herts
(in?)
Sandy, Beds
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And who else knows what the original name was for Threadneedle Street?
(I doubt it'd get past the swear filter)
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@ransos
Yes, I think a few of us do now...
There WAS a Gropecunt lane in Oxford; Now it's Magpie lane.Posted 2 years ago # -
Ah, The Shoe, named after the pub that used to be opposite the garage, but is now a private house with a large dry-stone wall around it. Coming back towards Chippenham, on the way to Castle Combe, is a little hamlet called Tiddlywink, I kid you not, and up near Lyneham there's Scotland and New Zealand. Oh, and just down the road from The Shoe, the junction with the A36 is Pennsylvania, which gets it's name from the same source as the American state, William Penn.
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grynch, what's so funny about Old Shop?
Nah. I think, truthfully, that this suggestion has been one of the best thus far.
What makes it better is that there's a South ****o.
I mean c'mon; after 'stumbling upon' some websites purveying adult toys, there are items which combine ****o and south ****o for both V & A pleasure!bigyinn, ransos and adh - good ones.
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You go past Loose Bottom when doing the South Downs Way.
Lickfold always makes me snigger.
I had a mate who lived in Shitterton.
We went through the aforementioned Muff en route to diving in Donegal. Well, you have to don't you?
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Driving from Scotland to Glastonbury Festival in the ninties, we always knew we were close to Glastonbury when we passed the sign to a place called Bawdrip, always raised a laugh.
Kept meaning to stop on the way back up the road to liberate the sign, funnilly enough never remembering to do so.Posted 2 years ago # -
Excellent. Keep 'em coming.
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