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

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 10:39 pm
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Dildo, Newfoundland, sounds like it should be in, erm…, somewhere else.

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

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 10:52 pm
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One for @scapegoat - Scapegoat Hill is in Huddersfield, not near Westminster

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 10:59 pm
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I’m quite chuffed with how many Lincolnshire places are getting a mention

I counted six on one hand

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:02 pm
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Any/many suggestions where Six Mile Bottom should be?
Incidentally, it's quite near Ugley
In Essex btw

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:12 pm
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FB-ATB chapeau sir!

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:23 pm
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California is really located near Falkirk

California
https://maps.app.goo.gl/J2AkBZEeTLReW9Le8

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:26 pm
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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….

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:27 pm

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And for the Calderdale Contingent, shouldn’t Barkisland be south of Canary Wharf?

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:41 pm
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Rievaulx sounds like it should be in France

Penrith and Penruddock could be in Wales

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:51 pm
Offline  ricko1984
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Lampeter sounds like a London suberb

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:53 pm
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Suburb

 
Posted : 18/11/2022 11:54 pm
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Glendale

Having abit of crisis of identity 😅

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:25 am
Offline  ElShalimo
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And for the Calderdale Contingent, shouldn’t Barkisland be south of Canary Wharf?

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Worryingly I'm in Stainland. There isn't a Y-front factory here

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 12:38 am
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Always thought that Dunbar sounds like it should be on the West Coast.

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 7:53 am
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Aspatria - sounds like it should somewhere in Greece

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 8:09 am

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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

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 8:51 am
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“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.

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:07 am
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Ponsanooth sounds like a rough estate on the outskirts of Glasgow affectionately known as ‘Ponzy’

Not a village in Cornwall between Falmouth and Redruth

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 6:03 pm
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Scotswood in Newcastle sounds as if it should be in...scotland.

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 6:35 pm
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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.

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 6:55 pm
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I went out with a girl for a while whose address was Roughley, Sutton Coldfield.

So not properly Sutton Coldfield, then.

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:06 pm
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Iceland can be found in a lot of towns in the UK.

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:14 pm
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Newark Castle

all of them

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:16 pm

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River Tyne

both of them

River Esk

all of them

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:20 pm
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Dull
https://brilliantmaps.com/weird-place-names-uk/

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:29 pm
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Never understood what Wrexham is doing in North Wales

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 9:33 pm
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Mogador
Not the port city nowadays known as Essaouira, it's actually next to the M25 Reigate exit.

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 10:12 pm
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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)

 
Posted : 19/11/2022 11:07 pm
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County Durham not being in northern ireland causes me actual physical symptoms

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 1:22 am
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Aboyne: sounds like it should be in Ulster, not Deeside

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 3:11 am
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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.

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 6:50 am

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Theres a New York in Lincolnshire

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 7:10 am
Offline  edward2000
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Bury st Edmunds.

Didn’t know he died

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 7:54 am
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Nope, it should be in Twatt (Orkney

Also one in Shetland, signs still there 😁

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 7:57 am
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Omaha beach Vs Omaha Nebraska is a confusing one

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 8:03 am
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Ponteland should be in France and not Northumberland.
Byrness should be in Scotland
Langdon Beck to me should be in the Lake District.

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 8:10 am
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Got a Balls Green just over the hill from me, clearly it should be on an STD menu.

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 8:25 am
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Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch. All in Dorset but clearly should be in Hampshire!

And another in Cornwall - London Apprentice. Should be in London?

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 9:20 am
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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.

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 10:19 am

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So where should the village of No Place be?

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 10:37 am
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If it really is like Holme then it should be in Cumbria

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 10:45 am
Offline  ElShalimo
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And the nearby Darent Valley hospital sounds like it should be in S Wales, or maybe New South Wales ?

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 10:57 am
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Spion Kop in Nottinghamshire sounds like it should be/is in South Africa

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 11:34 am
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.

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 11:36 am
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When I'm on Google Maps I often wonder what Great Britain is doing between Blackburn and Clitheroe

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 12:03 pm
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Moscow on the Cumbria\Northumberland border.

Always have a chuckle at 'No Place'road sign when visiting Beamish 🙂

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 12:28 pm
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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.

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 3:34 pm

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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.

 
Posted : 20/11/2022 6:01 pm
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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"

 
Posted : 21/11/2022 9:21 am
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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.

 
Posted : 21/11/2022 9:29 am
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