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[i]Dorset's got Piddletrenthide and Afpiddle, which are on the River Piddle, as is Tolpuddle, which should be Tolpiddle, but got censored.[/i]
Same story with Piddletown, got renamed to Puddletown for a Royal visit apparently.
Local to me, Cocking (as seen on Top Gear courtesy of who else but Mr May), Lower Dicker, Upper Dicker.
And a local filter lane leading into a village has w'nk painted on it, an abbreviation for Wannock
My good friend has written a great book about this here: [url= http://www.farfromdull.com/home.php ]farfromdull[/url]
When I lived in Penrith, we always called Cockermouth "Nob-a-gob".
Wetwang - an epic!
for some reason, Indian Queens in Cornwall always makes me chuckle
We have some good names here in the Fens:
Way Head
Prickwillow
Queen Adelaide
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In Aberdeenshire ...
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In Perthshire ...
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Cock Rock (near Croyde Bay)
Stiffkey in Norfolk. (where the local kids have lots of white paint to blank out the "K")
Grope**** Lane in London
Oh, and S****horpe (which polite people call Shorpe)
Upperthong and Netherthong are not a million miles from MM Towers.....
Then there's Peover in Cheshire......
Muff, Donegal. Yes, they have a diving club.
Also in Aberdeenshire (and forgive the lack of pic links, but I'm tired and lazy):
Tough - actually my surname as well!
In Isle of Man:
The Cronk - I mean, c'mon. Really?
Ballasalla, next to Ballabeg - work those two into a wee backing vocal harmony for a Doo-Wop combo, nae probs.
In western Cumbria:
Barepot
Papcastle
Thrushwood
Roger Ground
Pull Woods
Witherslack
Wood Head
Outcast
To the east of Rothbury, Northumbria, we have:
Snitter
Tosson
Great Tosson
Around Durham:
Brotherlee
Deaf Hill
Bearpark
Pity Me
Belmont Industrial Estate
Okay the last one disnae count, but like a previous poster said, 'I love this country'
There's a village called Rowde near Devizes in Wiltshire. Had to drive through it on the way to a client's last week. Noticed one morning that there's a "Cock Road" which made me s****. Driving home though, straight across from Cock Road was "Bunnies Lane". Another s****.
Near Stroud in the Cotswolds - a village called Sheepscombe (which is pronounced with the second part to rhyme with, hmmm, let me think..."rum" rather than "room").
And the final flourish, before I log off and head home:
May I invite you to take a little journey with me across....
Bamber Bridge!
Very close to.....well, Preston actually, but Fingerinhoe would be close too.
However, it is west of Pleasington. How apt.
Ooooh, and there's a Hardhorn in Blackpool.
Not for the first time, I expect!
****, I'm evolving into a one-man 'Carry On' film.
Goodnight.
Bagwyliydiat
Weston Beggard
Maud Bryan
Spond
Cloddock
Ocle Pychard
Villages either Little or Much
All in Herefordshire
Poxwell (in Dorset) - pronounced 'Pokes' not 'Pox. That's not far from a small village called Warmwell.
There's Wincle near Macclesfield and a hill called Andrew's Knob just above Bollington.
How old are we...?! 😳
Peover - as mentioned by marsdenman - has two variants - including Over Peover, which is now called something like Peover Superior...
Dumbiedykes in Edinburgh. There are a number of small hamlets in the Northwest that go by the name of "Bottoms". Not long after I passed my driving test it was my ambition to try and visit them all in one day.
Threadneedle St, home of the Bank of England, used to be called Grope**** Lane. If your home town has a Love St or Lovers Lane, chances are that it was once called Grope**** too.
not far from 'uddersfield is:
Penistone
Upperthong
Thongsbridge
Netherthong
All belters, Penistone is my favourite even if the locals do insist on pronouncing it 'penniston', miserable sods.
sorry for a couple of repeats there. marsdenman, how'd you not mention penistone??
In my very early days of MTB we used to go up the the north of the Yorkshire Dales nearly every weekend. I was always amused by the villages of Muker and Crackpot.
Just outside of Llanberis is Penis'arwaun.
In the Black Mountains there is a hill known as Lord Hereford's Knob.
MAFF have a farm at Bronydd Mawr- translates from Welsh as 'big t1t'.
And not too far from Morzine is a place called Urine
not a place, but a street
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Carlton Scroop in Lincolnshire.. Sounds like a retired thespian!!
Also Bucknall. It seems every time I drive past the sighn the local neds have painted out parts of the letters 'B' & 'n' 🙂
Spittal in the Street in Lincolnshire.
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 bottoms
and 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!
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
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|)
[url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=397500&y=272500&z=120&sv=lickey+end&st=3&tl=Map+of+Lickey+End,+Worcestershire+ [City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf]A favourite[/url]
[url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=376662&y=196102&z=115&sv=376662,196102&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=638&ax=376662&ay=196102&lm=0 ]Waterley Bottom[/url]
Near Clit-heroe you have rimington, and the other side of gisburn is Wham
Two areas near to where i was born
upper Sharpenhoe[theres a lower Sharpenhoe too] & Higham gobian
Cockburnspath in the Scottish Borders
MFCat - where are these roads?
Ugley in Herts.
Cross in somerset
Beer in Devon
Upper Dicker in Surrey.
Great Snoring in Norfolk
Cum, County Mayo, Ireland
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.
Long Itchington near Coventry.
Smearbottoms Lane, Malham.
Chipshop, Devon
(have I already said this?)
And Cheddar, Wenslydale, Caerphilly- but not Cheshire, Leicester or Stilton.
Lickey End near Bromsgrove.
Then there are Pratts Bottom and Badgers Mount in Kent.
There's a place by us called Pallet Swanted and another called Cyclists Dismount.
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)