Places that are in the wrong place

Leeds Castle

Beat me to it so,

But it is in Leeds

Rough Common, currently located just outside Canterbury should be moved to, based on a particularly dubious night out in 1991, a small alley just off Union Street in Plymouth.

Why is Normandy in Surrey?
Why is Egypt in Slough?

Some hills in the pentlands outside Edinburgh.

Caerketton sounds like it should be in Wales, but there is some Welsh influence in the name so that explains it.

There’s one just outside Bath too!

Near Petty France!

Some hills in the pentlands

Which aren’t anywhere near the Pentland Firth.
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Tring should be in Somerset

Pen Y Ghent? What’s it doing in’t Dales?

There is actually a reason for this. It’s derived from Cumbric, which is the Brythonic language spoken across Northern England and Southern Scotland after the Saxons had taken over the South and Easy of Britain. Previously similar dialects and languages were spoken across Britain except for parts of Scotland. The Saxons pushed in and separated the Britons in the West and North. Cumbric is where we get the name Cumbria and yan-tan-tethra (see also Cymru and Welsh numbers) and why there are loads of Welsh sounding names in Scotland e.g Aber- places, Dun- places (compare with Welsh dinas meaning city and Dunedin for Edinburgh), Glas-cae (green/blue field) for Glasgow.

In fact loads of places in England and Scotland have modern Welsh names that aren’t anything like the modern English names because they reflect the ancient British names.

Aspatria – mythical greek land of milk and honey or west Cumbrian shit hole?

Alexandria. I think its in the wrong place on the south end of loch lomond.

Caerketton sounds like it should be in Wales

Wait until I tell you about Carnethy…

Carnwadric. A beautiful village in wales or a scheme in Glasgow?

Whitley Bay High School is in Monkseaton.
Monkseaton High School is in Whitley Bay.

convert – you little charmer…

Aspatria – mythical greek land of milk and honey or west Cumbrian shit hole?

Works brilliantly if you use a dodgy faux-Russian accent and the sentence “He is taking the long road to Aspatria”. Just sounds like euphemism for being banished to the gulags (which is vaguely apposite…)

The church of St Ederyn, aka Llanederyn Church is not in the suburb of Llanederyn. The new suburb of St Ederyn’s has grown up around the Church of Llanederyn and is not near the existing suburb of Llanederyn. LLanederyn would be the Welsh name for St Ederyn’s but they’re different places.

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

The state of Pennsylvania has relocated north of Bath.

Guyzance. Clearly a Cornish village ( not a Northumberland one)

Upperthong near Holmfirth is not a Brazilian coastal resort

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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The Lomond hills are not next to Loch Lomond or Ben Lomond.

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.

I always thought ecclefechan should be in wales

Nah,I always thought that Ecclefechan sounds like it should be further North
😉

Yes after going through Petty France you turn left at Dunkirk along France Lane to my In Law’s

Wendens Ambo, should be in South Africa not Essex

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.

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”

Aaah, Petty France – had wedding reception there.
ElShalimo – surprised you didn’t mention NetherThong which is even more Brazilian.
As for Wetwang…

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

See also Old Bolingbroke.

Thanks Nigel.

Jerusalem, just west of Lincoln

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

And yet Bag Enderby must be in Hobbiton.

Aberfoyle should be in Perthshire.

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

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.

Dildo, Newfoundland, sounds like it should be in, erm…, somewhere else.

Dildo, Newfoundland, sounds like it should be in, erm…, somewhere else.

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

One for @scapegoat – Scapegoat Hill is in Huddersfield, not near Westminster

I’m quite chuffed with how many Lincolnshire places are getting a mention

I counted six on one hand

Any/many suggestions where Six Mile Bottom should be?
Incidentally, it’s quite near Ugley
In Essex btw

FB-ATB chapeau sir!

California is really located near Falkirk

California
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