Places that are in the wrong place

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?

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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

Dull

Weird, Silly, Odd & Rude Place Names In The UK

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 🙂