[Closed] Amusing Place names in Great Britain

I like that when leaving Inverness, you pass through Dores to get to Foyers.

there is a road called shitty brook lane in Weaverham that is now called (boringly) shady brook lane

In County Durham we've got No Place

I think this got its name because it was a terrible pit. So, dolks would say that it was no place to be working

I always used to laugh as a kid when I saw Wyre Piddle. I've a Faucheldean near me now to giggle at, yes it pronounced just like the swear word.

Not rude, but I love these:

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I took this one- Scotland's Secret Bunker is quite poorly signposted tbh

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But I guess compared to some of the others in this thread they're a bit

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Dumb woman's lane
Clamhunger lane
Slutshole lane

I kid ye not. Google maps.

You need to contribute to the world atlas of vaguely rude place names:
http://maps.geotastic.org/rude/
It's a bit light on UK content

Great Snoring and Little Snoring in Norfolk
Ugley in Hertfordshire

Place a few minutes from me called Cheesebottom. I live in Penistone.

I have posted these two before. The first was perhaps 20 years ago on Orkney, the second a few years before that, so doesn't really count as it was in France...

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Plenty but a couple of quick lakes ones
Just by Barrow Hospital
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and back to Cockermouth, Butts Fold Cockermouth to be precise
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and finally if Tetley put the T in Britain who put the
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IGMC

Land of Nod - Near Howden

We found a tiny village called Fa in the Spanish Pyrenees and on the same drive another place called Sex.

There's a hill called Lord Hereford's Knob in the Black Mountains.

But my favourite new discovery is not rude at all, a place called Christmas Pie in Surrey.

Not England, not funny place names but a top rental car ad...

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Not amusing names in their own right, but the fact they appear together...

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Not England, not funny place names but a top rental car ad...

Top! It is funny / purile. For those not familiar with Maori the Wh is pronounced as an F.

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These are great!
Keep them coming........

I want to know where those secret bunkers are 😉

There's a hill called Lord Hereford's Knob in the Black Mountains.

And a wonderful song about it too:

Ha,

Finglesham Deal

lol!

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There's a Benny Hill just outside Littleborough too:

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Have we had Upperthong yet? it's not to far from Netherthong and Thongsbridge.

Theres a place near me in Winsford called "Bottom Flash" and also...
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Used to work in a factory on Minge lane, Upton on severn

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Someones already mentioned it but here's a pick:
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BigJohn - Member
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.

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Indeed!
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grope****_Lane ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grope****_Lane[/url]

The Land Of Green Ginger 😆 😆

One for the dogs....

Woofferton

Nr Ludlow

National Geographics photo of the day today-[url= http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/ship-juan-de-fuca-strait/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20130226photo-pod&utm_campaign=Content ]Juan De Fuca Strait[/url] 😆

Well it's not in Britain but it is funny 😉

My personal favourite is in the Brecon Beacons

Fan-Y-Big

Not rude, but a bit odd!
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Friend of mine lived in Slag Lane actually.

Lovely girl.

My personal favourite is in the Brecon Beacons

Fan-Y-Big

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Don't think they like the forest much either 😆

fryup
crackpot- both in the yorkshire dales

little peeover in the midlands

I used to live near a place called Bullucks Horn. Always made me chuckle!

Has anyone mentioned Muff yet? Near Derry in NI. Home to a rather popular diving club. As well as the main road there is also a back road, but I believe it's hard to negotiate.

Hampole in Doncaster

Fanny Hands Lane in Lincolnshire - made me stop the car.

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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....

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 Minnie****a

[url= http://uk.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A7x9QXwX5CxRgiIAXVBLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTBybWdtbzZ2BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNARjb2xvA2lyZAR2dGlkAw--/SIG=12lqboufm/EXP=1361925271/**http%3a//www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp%3fp_id=604 ]Cuttlehurst and Topitt[/url]

Have an accountants near me called [url= http://www.clinkerlittle.com/ ]Clinker Little[/url] 😆

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Near Midhurst in West Sussex....

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

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

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

It gets

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between Bishop's Stortford and Stevenage.

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Penistone any one?

My regular roadie route takes me through Nomansland
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to Lover
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past the eye watering
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and finally Milkham Bottom
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Well, it brings a little pleasure to a couple of hours of pain 😕

'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'.

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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 😆

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.

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

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..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:

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

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).

Just up the road from me there is a 'fanny burn'.

I live in Crapstone.

The next village along is Leg O' Mutton.

Well if we are going to allow cheating

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One for Red Riding Hood

There's always [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagga_Wagga ]Wagga Wagga[/url] in NSW, if we're letting foreigners in.

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

I've rode trails in Sticky Forest in Wanaka NZ

Moorcock Inn between Sedbergh & Hawes
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Mrs S loves Moorcock Inn (phnar, phnar)

Does that pub serve Cider?

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.

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Hilgay- a parish of Norfolk.....

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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 😀

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Usually ridden in embarrassed silence.

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennycomequick ]I bet she does![/url]

Probably down the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grope****_Lanehttp:// ]old lane[/url]

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.

One of my local pubs is the Fighting Cocks

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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' ?? 😆

Tom Tittiman up on the tops above Hebden Bridge.

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

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So many amusing places on one map! 😆 😆 😆

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

One of Sir Titus Salt's daughter's I believe
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Nasty and Ugley in Herts/Essex.

Famous local Newspaper headline "Nasty man Marries Ugley woman"

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There's a Lower Dicker too

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