Silly Names

Had to go by Pratt's Bottom on the way to Croydon...

There's a place in the Fens called Pidley.

Some favourites of mine:

Bootle
Kingston Bagpuize
Crowmarsh Gifford
Cheadle
Blubberhouses
Peasmarsh
Piddletrenthide
Steeple Bumpstead
Leighton Buzzard
Cockfosters

----oh, I could go on and on!!!

Oh, and I meant to add:
In Lincolnshire there are two places quite close to each other called Old Bolingbroke and Mavis Enderby (do you use the girl's name Mavis in the USA? or is it a Brit thing?).  On the country road to these places was an old-fashioned black-and-white road sign reading

To Old Bolingbroke and Mavis Enderby

to which some wag had added a graffito, in the style of a Victorian newspaper birth announcement

:  God's gift of a baby boy.

Bill Bryson has some amusing lists of place names, both Brit and American in (I think) two of his books; and in Douglas Adams' (the Hitchhikers' Guide bloke) "The Meaning of Liff" ^* he uses a whole lot of place names for things for which there ought to be words, but aren't yet.  You can get a flavour of this at:

http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/stories/liff.html

The definition he gives to "Stebbing" has me LOLing, but if you don't mind, ladies, I'll leave it to you to find out why.

^* You can't stop an ex-librarian from recommending books!

Here's some that I've found:

Assawoman, Virginia
Bald Head, Maine
Budha, Indiana
Chugwater, Wyoming
Cold Foot, Alaska
Dickeyville, Wisconsin
Dismal, Tennessee
Eek, Alaska
Embarrass, Minnesota
Forks of Salmon, California
Fort Dick, California
Frankenstein, Minnesota
Hicksville, Ohio
Hot Coffee, Mississippi
Hot Water, Mississippi
It, Mississippi
King Arthur's Court, Michigan
Porkey, Pennsylvania
Roachtown, Illinois
Rough and Ready, California
Yeehaw Junction, Florida

Has anyone ever been to Knoblick, Oregon?  

Hahaha.. best I've got is Craven Arms, Shropshire  :-/

In Texas there's a town called Cut-n-Shoot.

Oh Saffron~

I'm with you on the names with cum in them.  My school's initials used to be CCM, when it was a college.  The college "upgraded" to university status, which changed the initials to CUM...you can only imagine the jokes and uproar..  Needless to the say, they've changed the name of the school once again to avoid all the jokes and so on....oh my, don't people think about these things??? hahhahaha

I just love the town name Midsomer Norton.

Hey my son lives in the next town over from Toad Suck, Arkansas.  They go to some town event there every year. Yeah I would hate to say I lived there. lol  I live close to a town called pishill. That sounds funny from an american or a british standpoint. I felt so strange telling a new friend that is where we took my fiance's kids last saturday night for a wedding reception.  lol

I want to visit Bunny, which is near Nottingham.  My sister wants to visit Titsy, south of London.

Chris

I like the town name Budleigh Salterton.  

Not sure if this has been listed, but there's a Joliet, Illinois.. the neighboring town?  Romeoville  

Yup!  We drove near Joliet and Romeoville on the way from O'hare to my Mom's house.  

My df is from Yorkshire, where the names of towns tend to be a bit depressing.

Grimsby
Grimethorpe

<<shudder>>