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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2009, 08:38:38 PM »
There's a place in Derbyshire called Whatsandwell.


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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2009, 08:44:25 PM »
there is a Pity me in county Durham
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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2009, 10:52:12 PM »
Three funny ones I've passed in the car come to mind right away:  Giggleswick, Wigglesworth, and Blubberhouses.
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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2009, 09:51:57 AM »
Not exactly toilet humor, but I always thought Dolphinton and Butterton were particularly funny.
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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2009, 11:02:01 AM »
I love the name Giggleswick, it sounds like such a happy place.   :)
We followed the sign to Blubberhouses one day but eventually turned around at a farmhouse on a one lane road.  Has anyone been there and seen anything?


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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2009, 11:03:36 AM »
How about Wide Open, just north of Newcastle!


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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2009, 04:00:59 PM »
There is a "Butt Close" in Glasto! 

I live near a place called Chitearn..pronounced Shittern.  I drove past a place coming back from Birmingham called Shitersfield.  The best one I think near the Lake District is Cockermouth  :-X  ;D
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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2009, 04:08:36 PM »
I love all these colorful place names! - Place names where I live now are very boring. I used to live in 'Cunliffe Close' in the UK and had a lot of very funny conversations about it.  :P


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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2009, 08:12:10 AM »
Cornwall has Mousehole (which is not pronounced as you might think, but as Mou-zz'll) and Come-to-Good. 

In Lincolnshire there are two villages near to each other named Old Bolingbroke and Mavis Enderby, which when appearing on a direction sign together prompted some wag to add a few words so the sign read "To Old Bolingbroke & Mavis Enderby, a child....."

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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2009, 10:10:35 AM »
North of Bristol is a town called Catbrain.
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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2009, 11:54:47 AM »
We often passed through Pratt's Bottom on our way to the coast. I always wanted to stop and have tea, just to say I did.

We seriously looked at a house on Dumb Woman Lane.


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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2009, 12:41:32 PM »
My kids love the name North Nibley.  Near that is Waterly Bottom.  In Devon there's a place called Ham Butts.  I love reading the place names when we're driving.
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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2009, 12:19:28 PM »
As a schoolboy, in geography class, I and my classmates derived much amusement from the fact that there is a mountain called Brown Willy (1377ft / 420m) in Cornwall. If we'd known about Bell End in Worcestershire I daresay we might have laughed at that too.

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Re: Funny place names in the UK
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2009, 12:31:44 PM »
Ramsbottom always makes me laugh.
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