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Mavis Enderby is surely a housekeeper in a Dickens novel, not a small village in Lincolnshire.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 9:57 pm
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The state of Pennsylvania has relocated north of Bath.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 9:59 pm
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Guyzance. Clearly a Cornish village ( not a Northumberland one)


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 10:02 pm
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Upperthong near Holmfirth is not a Brazilian coastal resort


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 10:03 pm
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Garstang

Chester-le-Street and it's neighbour Houghton le Spring

Ps there's a California near me in Scotland. It says it's the sunshine village. Rather ironically

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https://flic.kr/p/2o13NXM


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 10:14 pm
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The Lomond hills are not next to Loch Lomond or Ben Lomond.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 10:21 pm
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Yeah, but they're next to Loch Leven - and Loch Lomond is drained by the River Leven.

Makes you think...

And Jemimaville should be in Carolina, not on the Black Isle.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 10:22 pm
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I always thought ecclefechan should be in wales

Nah,I always thought that Ecclefechan sounds like it should be further North
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Posted : 18/11/2022 10:56 pm
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Yes after going through Petty France you turn left at Dunkirk along France Lane to my In Law's


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:10 pm
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Wendens Ambo, should be in South Africa not Essex


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:13 pm
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The Australians don’t have much imagination when it comes to naming places…

to be fair I suspect those places were named by colonisers.

Baghdad shouldn’t be in Tasmania, neither Zeehan nor Strahan.

Mooloolaba shouldn’t be so close to Mooloolah.

Woking and Wokingham should be on the same train line… well it would have helped my mate that got the wrong train.

And the Town of 1770 should be in the 18th century.

As for D’Aguilar that shouldn’t be in country where nobody knows how to pronounce it.

The town of Speed in South Australia should be in Utah.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:19 pm
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Mavis Enderby is surely a housekeeper in a Dickens novel, not a small village in Lincolnshire.

I believe she is good friends with Edith Weston?
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RAF North Luffenham is actually closer to Edith Weston but they called it North Luffenham so that the staff didn't have to answer the phone with "Edith Weston here"


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:23 pm
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Aaah, Petty France - had wedding reception there.
ElShalimo - surprised you didn't mention NetherThong which is even more Brazilian.
As for Wetwang...


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:24 pm
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Mavis Enderby is surely a housekeeper in a Dickens novel, not a small village in Lincolnshire.

See also Old Bolingbroke.

Thanks Nigel.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:26 pm
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Jerusalem, just west of Lincoln


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:34 pm
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Mavis Enderby is surely a housekeeper in a Dickens novel, not a small village in Lincolnshire.

And yet Bag Enderby must be in Hobbiton.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:36 pm
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Aberfoyle should be in Perthshire.

At least then I'd have been in the right area.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:36 pm
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As a yellowbelly myself I'm quite chuffed with how many Lincolnshire places are getting a mention, we are normally 'the forgotten county'
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Gibraltar Point.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:38 pm
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Dildo, Newfoundland, sounds like it should be in, erm..., somewhere else.


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:39 pm
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Dildo, Newfoundland, sounds like it should be in, erm…, somewhere else.

Erm, Ashby Cum Fenby perhaps? Or down Fanny Hands Lane in Ludford?


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:52 pm
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One for @scapegoat - Scapegoat Hill is in Huddersfield, not near Westminster


 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:59 pm
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I’m quite chuffed with how many Lincolnshire places are getting a mention

I counted six on one hand


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:02 am
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Any/many suggestions where Six Mile Bottom should be?
Incidentally, it's quite near Ugley
In Essex btw


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:12 am
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FB-ATB chapeau sir!


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:23 am
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California is really located near Falkirk

California
https://maps.app.goo.gl/J2AkBZEeTLReW9Le8


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:26 am
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My son has an office in Poundland, which sounds like it should be on the shit end of every high street everywhere, rather than South Ayrshire!

One of the places he manages is Sorn, which surprisingly is on a road in East Ayrshire….


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:27 am
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And for the Calderdale Contingent, shouldn’t Barkisland be south of Canary Wharf?


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:41 am
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Rievaulx sounds like it should be in France

Penrith and Penruddock could be in Wales


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:51 am
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Lampeter sounds like a London suberb


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:53 am
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Suburb


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:54 am
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Glendale

Having abit of crisis of identity 😅


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 1:25 am
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And for the Calderdale Contingent, shouldn’t Barkisland be south of Canary Wharf?

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Worryingly I'm in Stainland. There isn't a Y-front factory here


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 1:38 am
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Always thought that Dunbar sounds like it should be on the West Coast.


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 8:53 am
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Aspatria - sounds like it should somewhere in Greece


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:09 am
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currently live in Surrey Hills...sour dough bakers, coffee shops, organic veg, wine bars (no pubs) and trees on the pavement...an inner Melbourne suburb (in Aus' not Derbyshire, in Victoria but not in Canada)...the "what tyres for Surrey Hills" threads somehow catch my attention


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:51 am
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“what tyres for Surrey Hills”

Well when I lived in Elwood and cycled to Burwood to Deakin for Uni I used Specialized Fat Boys…

But I was always tempted to swap to some Onza Porcupines on the way through Malvern.


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 10:07 am
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Ponsanooth sounds like a rough estate on the outskirts of Glasgow affectionately known as ‘Ponzy’

Not a village in Cornwall between Falmouth and Redruth


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 7:03 pm
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Scotswood in Newcastle sounds as if it should be in...scotland.


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 7:35 pm
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I lived in North Skelton for a handful of years. It's south-east of Skelton!

But it is north of the old site of South Skelton mine which no longer exists.


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 7:55 pm
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I went out with a girl for a while whose address was Roughley, Sutton Coldfield.

So not properly Sutton Coldfield, then.


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 10:06 pm
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Iceland can be found in a lot of towns in the UK.


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 10:14 pm
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Newark Castle

all of them


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 10:16 pm
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River Tyne

both of them

River Esk

all of them


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 10:20 pm
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Dull
https://brilliantmaps.com/weird-place-names-uk/


 
Posted : 19/11/2022 10:29 pm
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Never understood what Wrexham is doing in North Wales


 
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