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  • Great British placenames: your country needs you to say "WTF?"
  • crazy-legs
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    There's a place called 'Twatt' in the Orkney Isles…

    Leading to the inevitable pics…

    Nico
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    Mornington Crescent

    allthepies
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    Mankinholes.

    WTF!

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    jonb
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    There's a nob end near where I grew up in Bolton.

    JacksonPollock
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    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 😆

    brakes
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    spooky_b329
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    Dorset's got Piddletrenthide and Afpiddle, which are on the River Piddle, as is Tolpuddle, which should be Tolpiddle, but got censored.

    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

    Mike
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    My good friend has written a great book about this here: farfromdull

    jojoA1
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    When I lived in Penrith, we always called Cockermouth "Nob-a-gob".

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Wetwang – an epic!

    for some reason, Indian Queens in Cornwall always makes me chuckle

    richmars
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    We have some good names here in the Fens:
    Way Head
    Prickwillow
    Queen Adelaide

    druidh
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    birky
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    In Aberdeenshire …

    In Perthshire …

    BigJohn
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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")
    Gropecunt Lane in London

    BigJohn
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    Oh, and Scunthorpe (which polite people call Shorpe)

    marsdenman
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    Upperthong and Netherthong are not a million miles from MM Towers…..

    Then there's Peover in Cheshire……

    Conor
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    Muff, Donegal. Yes, they have a diving club.

    MikeT-23
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    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'

    deadlydarcy
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    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 snigger. Driving home though, straight across from Cock Road was "Bunnies Lane". Another snigger.

    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").

    MikeT-23
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    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

    gonetothehills
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    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…

    skidartist
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    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 Gropecunt Lane. If your home town has a Love St or Lovers Lane, chances are that it was once called Gropecunt too.

    headfirst
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    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.

    headfirst
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    sorry for a couple of repeats there. marsdenman, how'd you not mention penistone??

    B.A.Nana
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    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.

    Ambrose
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    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'.

    Ambrose
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    And not too far from Morzine is a place called Urine

    el_diablo
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    not a place, but a street

    sunchaser
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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' 🙂

    Smee
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    Spittal in the Street in Lincolnshire.

    Badger
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    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!

    hamishthecat
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    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

    Trimix
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    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|)

    MrOvershoot
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    2hottie
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    Near Clit-heroe you have rimington, and the other side of gisburn is Wham

    dyna-ti
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    Two areas near to where i was born
    upper Sharpenhoe[theres a lower Sharpenhoe too] & Higham gobian

    Top.Dog
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    Cockburnspath in the Scottish Borders

    Spongebob
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    MFCat – where are these roads?

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