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Fingringhoe.

Essex.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 10:29 pm
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I can't believe I'm the first.
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Also by us is a place called 'Dangerous Corner'


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 10:33 pm
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From up my neck o' t'woods, Rumble Gut and Breasty Haw.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 10:37 pm
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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


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 10:53 pm
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found this last summer...

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Posted : 25/02/2013 10:57 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 10:57 pm
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I always liked the name "Cavalier Approach" in Leeds.

Sorry it's not naughty.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 10:59 pm
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Float, Sting lives there.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:00 pm
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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


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:05 pm
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In County Durham we've got No Place

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and Quaking houses

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Posted : 25/02/2013 11:10 pm
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Posted : 25/02/2013 11:12 pm
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nothing provocative, but always loved, " Findo Gask "


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:12 pm
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Auchenshuggle is good.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:15 pm
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Lumbutts and Mankinholes always make me laugh, both in STW land.

Oh and Barton in the Beans, Leicestershire.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:16 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:16 pm
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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*****


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:16 pm
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Bagwyllydiart


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:18 pm
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"At my age

Playing pool with a rope.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:18 pm
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There is another
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near me, too.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:18 pm
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Ive always thought that "Shingay - Cum - Wendy" was particularly snortsome.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:19 pm
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I saw this on Saturday, and very impressive it was too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twmpa


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:19 pm
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Are you aware of the definition of

Mankinholes
?

http://tmoliff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/mankinholes-pln.html


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:20 pm
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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)


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:21 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:22 pm
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Outside o' Brizzle, me babber:

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Not even rude, but still funny.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:22 pm
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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


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:23 pm
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Mr agreeable - that looks like quite good read, cheers.


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:25 pm
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Just outside Stroud, you've got Sheepscombe (and the "combe" bit rhymes not with womb...more like "bum").


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:29 pm
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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...


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:34 pm
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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...


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:37 pm
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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


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:38 pm
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Hooker Close in Budleigh Salterton ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 25/02/2013 11:53 pm
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Sounds painful:
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Posted : 26/02/2013 12:02 am
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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 !

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=spunkie%20uplawmoor&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geograph.org.uk%2Fphoto%2F2756252&ei=VO8rUcOnCOm00QWMn4HIDA&usg=AFQjCNGqr5VZdQBmOam0hOyfI7g8ajBBxA&bvm=bv.42768644,d.d2k


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 12:11 am
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Cockermouth up in the lakes, always makes me laugh!


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 12:13 am
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I like that when leaving Inverness, you pass through Dores to get to Foyers.


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 12:16 am
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there is a road called shitty brook lane in Weaverham that is now called (boringly) shady brook lane


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 12:18 am
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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


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 12:26 am
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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.


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 12:28 am
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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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Posted : 26/02/2013 12:35 am
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Dumb woman's lane
Clamhunger lane
Slutshole lane

I kid ye not. Google maps.


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 1:31 am
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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


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 2:00 am
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Great Snoring and Little Snoring in Norfolk
Ugley in Hertfordshire


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 3:42 am
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Place a few minutes from me called Cheesebottom. I live in Penistone.


 
Posted : 26/02/2013 4:00 am
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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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