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A question on another thread reminded me of my favourite local place name...
A road (and area of Woodbury Common) called 'Inner Ting Tong'.
God knows the provenance of the name, but it's ace, especially the nice bit of singletrack that leads off it called (of course) 'Ting Tong Trail'.
What's good local to you?
Balls Green in Gloucestershire.
Bell End.
I also smile when see the signpost for (both on same sign) Homer and Wig wig
I once, on a road trip home to Ireland, had to drive for my colleague to have her picture taken at the road sign for Muff in Donegal.
Breasty Haw in Grizedale
Sandy Balls in the New Forest
As a kid, Six Mile Bottom in Cambridgeshire made me chuckle as we drove by on our way to our annual holiday in North Norfolk
Lower Upham in Hampshire
Not local but I like Lickey End.
Yeah Lickey End isn’t too far from Bell End
Bonkle
Cheese Bottom. Not far from Penistone either.
Wetwang.
Fingringhoe always made me chuckle too (though nowhere near where I live)
Velvet Bottom on the Mendips.
In Bristol we have Cheers Drive and back home in Wales I used to live next door to a village called Stop and Call which ironically was an utter dump and would be the last place you'd want to stop.
Bedlam Bottom.
One near me. Black Man Lane. Not the best name, but I pass by it a lot and it just baffles me.
Chickenley and Flushdyke near Dewsbury always make me laugh
Upperthong
Netherthong
Catherine Slack
Slattocks
Cold Christmas in Hertfordshire
Near Reading, there is Tokers Green and Tutts Clump. And of course, the ubiquitous road named Bell End.
This sounds like a job for Far From Dull
Metal Bridge and Co-operative Villas for the purely functional naming.
lairdburkart
MemberOne near me. Black Man Lane. Not the best name, but I pass by it a lot and it just baffles me.
Around here there's the opposite of that, "White woman lane". Now I can understand that a black person may have seemed like a novelty a long time ago, but surely a white woman wouldn't have been enough to uniquely describe an area of rural Suffolk...
I often pass through Nedging-with-Naughton, which sounds like it should be rude... I don't know what Nedging is, but the thought of doing it with nought on triggers my inner Sid James/Frankie Howard...
Stacey Bushes. Near MK.
Black Man Lane.
White woman lane
I'm just guessing here but i'd bet the origin of both these names is of a supernatural nature rather than a racial one.
Historically, the most commonly reported sightings of ghosts are of dark shadowy men, Young pale women clad in white, Older ladies in grey and huge black dogs.
There'll also be Grey Lady Lanes and Black Dog Lanes all over the country, i'll wager
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Yeah Lickey End isn’t too far from Bell End
Where's your Bell End Houns? The one I am thinking of is in Wollaston, Northamptonshire so nowhere near Lickey End.
Stacey Bushes. Near MK
Right over the road from where I used to work.
In the small town I grew up in there was a Shitten Alley.
Where’s your Bell End Houns?
Steady on..!
Butthole Lane, Shepshed, Leicestershite.
Ugley (pronounced Yoo-glee) in Essex. Not that amusing on its own but they used to have a women's road race there called, with great lack of imagination, the Ugley Women's Road Race.
Which always just looked wrong.
On the road between Oxford and Swindon there's a sign to a village called Pusey. Apparently it's pronounced pewsey, not pussay, though.
About 4 miles NW of Lickey End
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Just near here there's Tomtits Bottom, Slutswell and Woefuldane Bottom
Memory Lane in Leicester sounds nice. It's not though.
On the drive down to the Pyrenees my wife always laughs at a place called fursac!
I also like Barton in the beans in Leicestershire, and makinholes near Hebden Bridge.
Not a place name but a road name, Hornyold road in Malvern
No Place in County Durham
On the road between Oxford and Swindon there’s a sign to a village called Pusey. Apparently it’s pronounced pewsey, not pussay, though.
4 miles from where I grew up!
If we’re doing roads as well, then Letsby Avenue in Sheffield. Where the police comms centre is based.
I regulary drive past a sign to "The Wilderness" on my way through the FoD. I may just have to stop and check it out next time. Also on the way there I pass a sign to "Solomons Tump" - who was he and what is a Tump ?