Whereas in Kent I do like the fact that the hamlet of Ham is close to the town of Sandwich, exactly where it should be.
Miles away from Cheddar, Wensleydale, Gloucester (x2), or Stilton though
Near Symington in Ayrshire is ‘Slough of Despond’ that sounds like it should be in a Milton poem.
It might not be in a Milton poem, but it does get mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song.
Near Symington in Ayrshire is ‘Slough of Despond’ that sounds like it should be in a Milton poem.
Range of the Awful hand leads to Murder Hole in Galloway - but surely they should be in NW USA?
In the same courtyard 🙂
As I said, small world! In the corner next to the Bothy then? We'll at least have nodded to each other ......
How about a whole country in the wrong place?
Suriname
Should defo be in SE Asia rather than S America !?!
Dewsbury – should be a genteel town in Surrey
Dewsbury should be as far away from anywhere as possible. Same with Bradford.
confused at Gibraltar Point near Grimsby
Well that would be confusing. It's not near Grimsby. It is near Skegness.
But continuing with the theme... there's a small town (~1000 people) in Central Queensland, about 10 hours drive from Brisbane. It has an entertainment centre that seems to get fairly decent acts, and a water park. The kind of infrastructure you wouldn't expect outside a decent sized regional town. The nearest 'big' town is Emerald about 50km south and ~15-20,000 people. According to the locals the buildings were supposed to have been constructed in the Brisbane suburb of Capalaba... Hmmmm...
Legend has it that in the mid-19th century the Tasmanian town of Launceston erected an ornate Parisian fountain in Prince's Square after it arrived there by mistake having been sent to Launceston, Cornwall. Hmmmm....
Also Pennsylvania should be in America not Wiltshire.
It is, it gets its name from William Penn. The one in South Gloucestershire gets its name in a similar way, the first part, Penn, could be from Brythonic for hill, or a personal name, the second part, Sylvania is Latin for forest. As does the one in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%2C_Gloucestershire.
So many places in America take their names from English colonists, there’s quite a few places called Bristol in the Eastern states, appropriate because it was an explorer from Bristol who was the first modern European to ‘discover’ the place. John Cabot landed in the ‘Matthew’, I think in Newfoundland, knowing it was there, because of listening to Bristol fishermen who would put in to land to replenish water and food after fishing off the Grand Banks.
The Vikings, of course, beat him to it, exactly 1000 years ago this year. Sadly, they didn’t leave any interesting place names behind.
Columbus, of course, never set foot on mainland America.
There’s a hamlet on the way to Castle Combe called Tiddleywink, and not far from Lyneham there’s New Zealand.
but it does get mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song.
What doesn’t?
Whitby. Ellesmere Port. Topical hydrogen reference!
Todmorden, say it slowly and it's sounds Tolkeinesque
New York in North Tyneside
Egypt is really in Buckinghamshire between Slough and Beaconsfield.
Pontefract should be in Wales, not Yorkshire. Ashby De La Zouch should be somewhere on the French Riviera, and Goosnargh should be on Mars instead of just outside Preston.
Shouldn't Robin Hood's Bay be further south somewhere near Sherwood Forest?
Pontefract should be in Wales, not Scotland
Eh?
Ventongimps. But I don't know where it should be.
Dammit @scotroutes. Brain farct. It's not far from me! Amended, with apologies 🙂
Dewsbury should be as far away from anywhere as possible. Same with Bradford.
To be fair, both are situated within road networks that mean you never really have to go through either. Which is just as well.
Shouldn’t Robin Hood’s Bay be further south somewhere near Sherwood Forest?
Apparently the places that lay claim to Robin Hood are very many. He's all over Calderdale too - there are several pubs, and a massive stone up on the moors called 'Robin Hood's Penny', the story behind which includes a super-powered game of quoits or something 🙂
Not to mention that his grave is in Kirklees...
Not sure where the small village of Knockin (Shropshire) should go, but it does have a village store to buy things in...:-)
Ashby de la Zouch
Good shout. Instantly makes me think of Boothby Graffoe as well.
Dunno where that should be, possibly somewhere in Middle Earth? But he was one of the funniest stand-ups I ever saw.
Not sure where the small village of Knockin (Shropshire) should go, but it does have a village store to buy things in…:-)
#theyknew
Assume you know that wasn’t coincidental – he chose the stage name intentionally.
I did. I've seen him live loads of times, most recently as the opening act for Barenaked Ladies. He's brilliant.
Oops, I missed that we'd already done BG.
Glad to hear he's still going. I last saw him in the 1990s at Bound & Gagged, Palmers Green.
Portobello should be lapped by the Mediterranean where you can be enjoying a flat white outdoors just now in comfort whereas you can do that just now in the pissing rain , freezing your nuts off whilst looking over the grey Firth of Forth at a distant Fife
Bolton in East Lothian maybe a distant relative of the one near Manchester
I like how Hollywood, County Wicklow have their own Hollywood sign up on a hill.
Ashby de la Zouch
Good shout. Instantly makes me think of Boothby Graffoe as well.
Dunno where that should be, possibly somewhere in Middle Earth?
It already is....
