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
https://maps.app.goo.gl/J2AkBZEeTLReW9Le8
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….
And for the Calderdale Contingent, shouldn’t Barkisland be south of Canary Wharf?
Rievaulx sounds like it should be in France
Penrith and Penruddock could be in Wales
Lampeter sounds like a London suberb
Suburb
Glendale
Having abit of crisis of identity
And for the Calderdale Contingent, shouldn’t Barkisland be south of Canary Wharf?
Worryingly I'm in Stainland. There isn't a Y-front factory here
Always thought that Dunbar sounds like it should be on the West Coast.
Aspatria - sounds like it should somewhere in Greece
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
“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.
Ponsanooth sounds like a rough estate on the outskirts of Glasgow affectionately known as ‘Ponzy’
Not a village in Cornwall between Falmouth and Redruth
Scotswood in Newcastle sounds as if it should be in...scotland.
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.
I went out with a girl for a while whose address was Roughley, Sutton Coldfield.
So not properly Sutton Coldfield, then.
Iceland can be found in a lot of towns in the UK.
Newark Castle
all of them
River Tyne
both of them
River Esk
all of them
Never understood what Wrexham is doing in North Wales
Mogador
Not the port city nowadays known as Essaouira, it's actually next to the M25 Reigate exit.
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Doublebois is Cornwall, should be in France
Also in Cornwall:
Bay of Biscay
Sheffield
Radnor
Ding Dong (should be in a Carry On film)
Knave-go-by (should be in the 15th century)
And the ironically named North Country (couple of miles south of Portreath - but still oop north for some of us)
County Durham not being in northern ireland causes me actual physical symptoms
Aboyne: sounds like it should be in Ulster, not Deeside
Carnwath and Wemyss Bay are places in Wales
Ae clearly belongs in Fife
Crook of Devon in, er, Devon
Ardeer in Norn Irn (TBF see previous entry for Stranraer)
Port William at least somewhere near Fort William
Port of Menteith near a body of water big enough to support a port.
Patna? I dunno, Irkutsk, Kamchatka or, preferably, the Hellas Basin.
Royston clearly belongs in Lancashire, not Hertfordshire.
Here I thought it was in Glasgow.
Nope, it should be in Twatt (Orkney)
Fun fact, it's no longer marked with any road signs, presumably because people befitting the description kept stealing them.
Cologne should be in France, not Germany
Strasbourg should be in Germany, not France
Agree but Germans at least call it Köln.
Beauly, in name and feel, should be just outside Bristol.
If not in sound. Definitely not in sound.
Yeah, but they’re next to Loch Leven – and Loch Lomond is drained by the River Leven.
No they're not, that's Glencoe you're thinking of.
Theres a New York in Lincolnshire
Bury st Edmunds.
Didn’t know he died
Nope, it should be in Twatt (Orkney
Also one in Shetland, signs still there
Omaha beach Vs Omaha Nebraska is a confusing one
Ponteland should be in France and not Northumberland.
Byrness should be in Scotland
Langdon Beck to me should be in the Lake District.
Got a Balls Green just over the hill from me, clearly it should be on an STD menu.
Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch. All in Dorset but clearly should be in Hampshire!
And another in Cornwall - London Apprentice. Should be in London?
Darenth should be in Wales. Careful posing next to the sign is one of my headshots. It’s next to Dartford if you’re interested and I ride through it on a circumnavigation of the M25.
So where should the village of No Place be?
If it really is like Holme then it should be in Cumbria
And the nearby Darent Valley hospital sounds like it should be in S Wales, or maybe New South Wales ?
Spion Kop in Nottinghamshire sounds like it should be/is in South Africa
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When I'm on Google Maps I often wonder what Great Britain is doing between Blackburn and Clitheroe
Moscow on the Cumbria\Northumberland border.
Always have a chuckle at 'No Place'road sign when visiting Beamish
Omaha beach Vs Omaha Nebraska is a confusing one
That was never it's historical name, that was just a coded name for D Day along with Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword.
There's an area of Ipswich that's also California. It's something to do with Freeholders and would explain the surfeit of them nationally.
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….
I lived in Sorn until just a few days ago - a bit of Ayrshire that hardly anyone in Ayrshire seems to realise exists - people hardly ever know where I'm talking about even if they're pretty local. A supplier of mine in Glaston recently proudly told me he'd been to Sorn a few weeks back - he'd lived in Galston all his life, theres a sign to Sorn right in the middle of Galston, theres only really four roads out of Galston and the road to Sorn is one of them.....he'd never been there before.
And yet - I've met a surprising number of people further afield who know all about it - bumped into an old guy in Stoke on Trent who it turned out used to play in the building that would later be converted into my house when he was a kid, told me there used to be a cider press in there at one point which I later found out was correct "Oh so did you grow up in Sorn then?" "No I grew up in Stoke on Trent"
Always have a chuckle at ‘No Place’road sign when visiting Beamish
In Kilmarnock when the high street was pedestrianised they carved the names of the lanes and side roads into the pavement. Only problem with the plan was one of the lanes didnt have a name.