Just doing some research for work on the old Google maps, and noticing some oddly named places. It got me to wondering just how many there are around the country.
The emphasis is, of course, on Anglicised versions, as they would be likely to be most easily misinterpreted, and therefore amusing.
Three examples from the countryside just north of Arbroath:
Drunkendub - the new sound for booze-hounds?
Boysack - not a place I wish to spend any time around.
Kinell - missing an apostrophe at the front, and an exclamation mark at the end, but we understand.
So, who's got any more? This could be a bit of fun.
Always amuses
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=327195&y=1024131&z=120&sv=****t&st=3&tl=Map+of+****t,+Orkney+ [Town]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=327500&y=1024500&z=120&sv=****&st=3&tl=Map+of+****t,+Orkney+Islands+ [City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
There's a site some where that lists them all in your area.
uplink - snooze and you lose 😆
Hey - no duplications please.
I'm always keen to see a ****t, and two at one time would be heaven, but in circumstances far different from this.
Thanks though - I'll take that idea away for some 'consideration'.
There'sa spot near Longtown in Cumbria called Wide Open Dykes which always made me chuckle
Six Mile Bottom, nr Newmarket
Within 8 miles of me,Penistone and Wombwell.
Ian
Shellow Bowells. Essex.
In Banffshire:
Fattahead - ...than whom?
Oldwhat - git, perhaps?
Slacks of Cairnbanno - on a hanger, next to his cardigans!
Yetts o'Muckhart (Clackmannanshire)
Findo Gask (Perthshire)
Water-ma-trout (Helston, Cornwall)
Makes me chuckle everytime I pass through Helston 😀
"Drunkendub - the new sound for booze-hounds?
Boysack - not a place I wish to spend any time around.
Kinell - missing an apostrophe at the front, and an exclamation mark at the end, but we understand."
I grew up just around the corner from them all. Yup - we always s****ed too.....
Hooray for Cockermouth, Cumbria
Bell End, Hereford and Worcester DY9, UK
Clitheroe and Cockermouth are two of my faves.
Dingdong and Ventongimps in Cornwall. Oh, and Goon Gumpus while I'm at it.
The Land of Nod nr Holme on splading Moor, East Yorkshire
I used to work in Ramsbottom, although we always called it SheepsArse.
Dorset's got Piddletrenthide and Afpiddle, which are on the River Piddle, as is Tolpuddle, which should be Tolpiddle, but got censored.
[edit] There's Lord Hereford's Knob, near Hay-on-Wye, as well.[/edit]
[url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=396500&y=248500&z=120&sv=piddle&st=3&tl=Map+of+Piddle+Brook,+Worcestershiresearchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf ]Piddle Brook in Worcestershire[/url]
If you go to Gisburn you can see Cocklick End, Slack and Tosside.
Breasty Haws in the Lakes.
Chipshop in Devon.
[url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=377500&y=268500&z=120&sv=dick&st=3&tl=Map+of+Dick+Brook,+Worcestershire+&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf ]Dick Brook runs through Shavers End in Worcestershire.......[/url]
Barton in the beans.
Little hampton
The slaughters
Matching Tye in Essex
[url= http://www.multimap.com/maps/?zoom=14&countryCode=AT&lat=48.0675400849493&lon=12.8625273956654 ]Oh!.. not British but very cheeky[/url]
This hill (and the one just to the left of it) in Cumbria always amused me.
Fingerinhoe in Essex! always makes (and still does) me smile! 😀
Fan y Big in the Beacons SO 0365 2066
A road sign I used to pass said...
Cobham, Fetcham & Bookham
& a local village near to where i now live is called 'Clitters' ......... S****
Nob End near Radcliffe.
Slack Bottom, just above Hebden.
God, I love this country
Butt Hole Lane
Fanny Street in Saltaire was always very amusing as a child (I think she was one of Titus Salts daughters).
I think you need this book:
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Hours of endless fun! They have many others to their name as well - all available from Amazon...
There's a place called '****t' in the Orkney Isles...
[i]There's a place called '****t' in the Orkney Isles... [/i]
Leading to the inevitable pics...
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Mornington Crescent
Mankinholes.
WTF!
There's a nob end near where I grew up in Bolton.
Mentioned on page one but Clitheroe. I live there!
When asked to spell the place on the 'phone I respond by saying
"Its C-L-I-T hero"! makes me laugh anyway 😆
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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?