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This has probably been done before, but what the hell 😆
Place photos of amusing place names here, they can be towns, streets, pubs, caffs. Anything like that.
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I used to live in this village, the sign used to get nicked at least once a year 😉
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I got a yellow card last time I posted a village name on a thread like this. Turned it it was made up.
I got a yellow card last time I posted a village name on a thread like this. Turned it it was made up.
No made up ones please! 😉
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these two are twinned
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Nob End near Bolton
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I spent a few hours in a locked room thanks to US customs thinking I was taking the piddle, when they asked me where I was from 😉
pity me and once brewed in North East
Not got photos, but in Bewdley there is a passage called the Gob and in Wollaston there is the famous Bell End.
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once brewed?
bet it;s not as good as
Touchen-End in Berks always makes me smile.
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Have some Cambridgeshire...
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Or how about something from Suffolk that always makes me chuckle...
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Minge Lane in Upton on Severn. Sign is now concreted into the wall.
Cockshot Road is only just down from Hornyold Road in Malvern.
Got to love the Slaughters (Upper & Lower) on the top of the Cotswolds.
Or how about something from Suffolk that always makes me chuckle...
I always stop there for a coffee on my way to the Broads! It's about halfway between London and Great Yarmouth 8)
(Well, i say halfway......)
I drive through Wetwang on my way up to the NY Moors.
Oh and rode past here in Northern Spain
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The local shop in Knockin on the way to North Wales?
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Just above Heptonstall. 🙂
Hornyold Road in Malvern
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This the one 😉
aye. About 100yrds from my old house 🙂
Boringly enough, Hornyold is a local family name. Rather than anything more racy.
Penis Town
Upperthong & Netherthong
more bizarre than funny - stromness, orkney
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There's a 'Foul End' near me, too. No, not [i]that[/i] near...
I've seen Poo!
Isn't that near Llanes, in Northern Spain?
Thong is just up the road from me 😉
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I've seen Poo!
Stop giggling at the back 😆
aye-aye - yep, well noted!
Bell End near Belbroughton/Clent
I'm currently working in Cockermouth.
Tomorrow I will be going for a shop ride with 4 Play Cycles in Cockermouth, looking forward to it.
Beaten to it by Houns, I pass through Bell end most days 😆
Wetwang has to my favourite in East Yorkshire.
There is Blubberhouses in Noth Yorks I think and Keith in Scotland.
Damn - was about to post the Thong one. Just up the road from where I was born.
Crotch Crescent (Oxford)
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There's a copse just round the corner from me called 'Hum Hole'.
I'm astonished that the sign has not been modified.
Stamford has a 'Melancholy Way'. Slight hijack but I was amused last week to be reading about a trial presided over by a lady judge called Merry Cocks.
Trumpery Lane - Just outside norwich
and...
Shavington cum gresty - somewhere along the A5 if I recall...
Late lamented
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Recently changed after residents got bored with all the inevitable naked posing. New version:
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Great and little snoring always make me smile, on the A17 norfolk I think
Place near Reeth called Booze.
Totties is another good one thats not far from Holmfirth.
Shittlehope west of Hamsterley.
Friend of mine used to live on a road called Butts Mount.
I'm just down the road from Bedlam. Keep meaning to take a picture.
Fingringhoe.
Essex.
I can't believe I'm the first.
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Also by us is a place called 'Dangerous Corner'
From up my neck o' t'woods, Rumble Gut and Breasty Haw.
Some near me...
Bucklers Hard
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Nether Wallop
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and trundling around in the New Forest...
Woodfidley Bottom
Shave Wood
The Butts
Naked Man near Duck Hole
Shaggs Meadow
Mount Pleasant
found this last summer...
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^^^ fantastic!
Oh, and although not funny now, my home 'region' of Furness is derived from the Old Norse word for female genitalia, so would've been worth a guffaw if this had been posted 1,000 years ago.
I always liked the name "Cavalier Approach" in Leeds.
Sorry it's not naughty.
Float, Sting lives there.
Not read the whole thread so it may already have been mentioned, but Cocklick End takes some beating. It's in Gisburn Forest too.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/place/Cocklick_End_in_Lancashire_484611_569611.htm
In County Durham we've got No Place
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and Quaking houses
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nothing provocative, but always loved, " Findo Gask "
Auchenshuggle is good.
Lumbutts and Mankinholes always make me laugh, both in STW land.
Oh and Barton in the Beans, Leicestershire.
For fear of a ban I won't write it here but Magpie Lane, Oxford used to have a surprising name.
In Wigan there is an InceSt Mary's School.
Just round the corner from me and always raises a s****:
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Puts me in mind of that Greg Davies line: "At my age sex is like thumbing marshmallows into the anus of a cat."
*s*****
Bagwyllydiart
"At my age
Playing pool with a rope.
There is another
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near me, too.
Ive always thought that "Shingay - Cum - Wendy" was particularly snortsome.
Are you aware of the definition of
?Mankinholes
http://tmoliff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/mankinholes-pln.html
Incidentally,
Chorlton of "and the Wheelies" fame is named after Chorlton Cum Hardy(*).
Not the greatest of middle names, to be honest.
(* - it was on a "made in..." label inside his egg)
For fear of a ban I won't write it here but Magpie Lane, Oxford used to have a surprising name.
See also: Grape Lane in York, London, various other places.
Outside o' Brizzle, me babber:
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Not even rude, but still funny.
I remember a Paul Young album with a picture of him next to the sign of a town named Shitterton and the question "have you ever?". Made me laugh, anyway
Mr agreeable - that looks like quite good read, cheers.
Just outside Stroud, you've got Sheepscombe (and the "combe" bit rhymes not with womb...more like "bum").
There's a few in Cumbria - I always liked it when I spotted "Wide Open Dykes" on the maps. There's Great Cockup and Little Cockup near Caldbeck.
I also have a little chuckle when I pass through "Loggerheads" on the way into North Wales. Always feel like stopping and phoning someone to tell then that I am at...
For fear of a ban I won't write it here but Magpie Lane, Oxford used to have a surprising name.
See also: Grape Lane in York, London, various other places.
Trinity Row (row of mid-C18th cottages where I used to live in Frome) was previously known as Grope Lane...
mintimperial - Member
For fear of a ban I won't write it here but Magpie Lane, Oxford used to have a surprising name.
See also: Grape Lane in York, London, various other places.
Well if we're allowed to do York it all gets too easy...
Whip Ma Whop Ma Gate
(There probably isn't one in London or various other places though)
Just outside York you have Bolton Percy
Hooker Close in Budleigh Salterton 🙂
Sounds painful:
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Slightly annoyed by Google Maps who have changed the name of a house just outside of Uplawmoor (which incidentally used to be called Ouplaymoor).
It now shows up as Spinkie.
But the sign on the house shows SPUNKIE !
Cockermouth up in the lakes, always makes me laugh!