Favourite place names?

Up the road from where I live.

I haven’t got a picture, but just up the road from me is “Bedlam.”

Saying it fast, my girlfriend used to smile over ‘Isle of Ewe’. Then I’d snigger over ‘Isle of Ulva’.

Just down the road from me

Glenelg. The UKs only palindromic place name.

@Rob: my dad was in a plane crash in Ouagadougou: missed my first birthday ‘cos of it.

Glenelg. The UKs only palindromic place name.

hmmm…
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=435300&Y=413400&A=Y&Z=120

I think “The UK’s longest palindromic place name” is probably a safe bet though.

Oh brilliant. Ta!

There’s a Button Oak and Button Bridge near me, possibly the cutest village names in the country.

On the other hand, there’s a Dog Hanging Coppice in the Wyre Forest and a Boy’s Grave in the Forest of Dean.

Nice one Ton 😆

this is probably fairly descriptive if you happen to be there.

or

There’s a good bike ride round Shropshire where you start of at Loggerheads, go to Sleap for a bit and end up at Woore. About 50 miles.

Stewart Lee’s routine on Shilbottle, Shitterton and Crapstone is one of the funniest shows I’ve seen.

Just spotted this on Facebook, seemed appropriate. (I expect it’s Photoshoppery rather than a modded sign, but still…)

Always get a bit worried riding through here, never got tangled in barbed wire or fallen in a trench yet though!

Bunnahabhain….great unpronounceables of our time, as the advert used to say!

not to be confused with

Malvernrider – how did you pick up that OS map image?

Nice one Ton

not many will know it.

Westward Ho! (say it as though you’re an MC just coming onto the stage)

I think it’s the only place in the country with a punctuation mark in the name. Not bad going.

Westward Ho! (say it as though you’re an MC just coming onto the stage)

Or a Thundercat.

I think it’s the only place in the country with a punctuation mark in the name. Not bad going.

Clayton-Le-Moors (and probably many others).

It’s the only place in the country with an exclamation mark in the name.

Near Beacon Fell country park we have Startifants Lane, which I always read as “Fartipants”.

Three hours too late breatheeasy but props for bothering to find the photos. 😀

Just north of Settle you can find Giggleswick, Eldroth and Lawkland which all sound a bit Harry Potterish and Wham, which sounds a bit Andrew Ridgeleyish.

The Inaccessible Pinnacle

Why’s it called that then?

I used to live at Running Waters just outside Durham.

In Wollaston, Northants.

Praze-an-Beeble, Gweek and Trengilly Wartha… all in Cornwall, and all shouted out with relish when seen on road signs. I’d like to visit Tegucigalpa, just so I can say I have been there… but that is in Honduras.

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Missing a N. near Tain iirc.

There is also a sign just outside Fraserburgh: Gash, always make me smile.

Oooh, i’ve been to praze-an-beeble. Nice it is. Also in cornwall is the famous Brown Willy, a little hamlet called Talskiddy, and other pleasant sounding places like landulph, catchfrench and zennor. Oh, and Hatt.

Lots of places in Northumberland have lovely names, not so much ‘places’ though as just names on the map.
Bloodybush Edge
Beefstand Hill
Ewartly Shank
Windy Gyle
Cottonshopeburnfoot.

The list is endless!

Yeah, we’ve got loads of good ones down here in Cornwall. I live within a couple of miles of Grumbla, Tonkin Down, Georgia Bottom, Noon Diggery and Bay of Biscay (which ironically is about as far from the sea as you can get in Penwith). And the two industrial estates in Helston are called Water-ma-Trout and Gilly-Gabben.

Many of the old Cornish place names have a wonderful rhythm about them. “Higher Bologgas”, “Tremethick” or “Trezelah” anyone? (Stress on the second syllable).

“Bottoms” and “Ding Dong” are my favourites, though.

Trezelah” anyone? (Stress on the second syllable).

Isn’t that where Doctor Who died?

Knockin near Oswestry in Shropshire. Guess what the sign says above ths local store……

Great diving club