Zany names of british locales

[Otis Driftwood]

From Google Earth:

Crafthole
Crook
Tow Law
Chester Le Street
Red Car
Butterwick
Healaugh
Spacey Houses
Blackwaterfoot
Meat Hop
Hooe
Great Lumley
Peebles
Pool of Muckhart
Witherslack (Hall)
Penistone

[Lyman Zerga]

lol red car

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Penistone

That's not that far from me. You pronounce it PeNNis-Tun

When i lived down in deepest darkest Dorset there were lots of oddly named villages. My favourite being Piddletrenthide. Piddle. LOL

[camo]

knob end

i'll get back with more later

[trailerprincess]

Cockermouth!

Makes me giggle everytime

[zorra_chiflada]

i'll give you tasmanian ones (we are reknowned for stupid shit):

dismal swamp (i shit you not)
ouse (pronounced "ooze")
penguin
the nut
egg and bacon bay
mole creek
bagdad

[na§tee]

egg and bacon bay! that sounds like a great place to get breakfast.

my village at home is called back. and it is next to tong (pronounced tongue). we're a bunch of kinky motherfucks.

[trailerprincess]

Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Mwhahahahahahahah

[camo]

I found these Apes Hall (Norfolk)
Bishops Itchington (unk)
Boysack (Tayside, Scot.)
Brokenborough (Avon)
Burnt Houses (Co. Durham)
California (Norfolk)
Cannard's Grave (Somerset)
Carlingcott (Avon)
Caynham (Shrops.)
Clappers (Lothian, Scotland)
Climpy (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Crackport (County unknown) See picture below!
Devizes (Wilts.)
Diss (Norfolk)
Dollarbeg (Fife, Scotland)
Dorking, Surrey
Duck End (Essex)
Egypt (Hamps.)
Felldownhead (Devon)
Folly Gate (Devon)
Foulden (Lothian, Scotland)
Frisby On The Wreake (Leics.)
Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
Godolphin Cross (Somerset)
Goosey (Oxfords.)
Great Snoring (Norfolk)
Gurney Slade (Avon)
Ham and Sandwich (Kent)
Herodsfoot (Cornwall)
Herringfleet (Norfolk)
Hetton-le-Hole (Co. Durham)
High Ham (Somerset)
Hopton Wafers (Shrops.)
Jump, So. Yorks
Killiecrankie (Tayside, Scot.)
Kilmahog (Central Scotland)
Kilmany (Fife, Scot.)
Knockdown (Avon)
Knockin (Shrops.)
Leatherhead (Exeter)
Little Horwood (Bucks.)
Little Snoring (Norfolk)
Little Sodbury (Avon)
Little Town (Cumbria)
Little Wratting (Cambs.)
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIO GOGOGOCH, Anglesy, Wales
Lower Down (Shrops.)
Mockbeggar (Kent)
Mousehole (Cornwall)
Much Haddam (Cambs.)
Nasty (Herts.)
Nether Poppleton (North Yorkshire)
New Invention (Wales)
North Piddle (Worcs.)
Peasedown St. John (Wilts.)
Pidley (Cambs.)
Puddledock (Norfolk)
Shop (Cornwall)
Simonsbath (Somerset)
Slip End (Beds.)
Snig's End (Gloucs.)
Sockburn (Co. Durham)
Tiltups End (Avon)
Titson (Cornwall)
Tittensor (Staffs.)
Turner's Puddle (Dorset)
Twelveheads (Cornwall)
Warboys (Cambs.)
Washaway (Cornwall)
Watchet (Somerset)
Waterhouses (Staffs.)
Willey (shrops.)
Windy Yet (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Wormegay (Norfolk)
Wormwood Scrubs (London)
Yelling (Cambs.)


boysack lol

[Lex Diamonds]

Isn't there a place in America called "Bald Knob"? I wonder if Danny DeVito lives there.

[Freebasser]

You won't find none o' that shit round these parts.

However, a road near me is called Slag Lane. Aptly named, too (y)

[mp-seventythree]

There's a village near me called Fingringhoe:cool:
And it's pronounced "fingering-hoe"

[skra75]

From Google Earth:

Crafthole


HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[Parkey]

I'm from Ashby de la Zouch

[camo]

Nasty (Herts.)

[na§tee]

I'm from Ashby de la Zouch
ahaha. no shit? my flatmate's boyfriend is from the zouch. i would give you some zouch facts i have learnt but they escape me :( you have marvellous accents!

[Parkey]

ahaha. no shit? my flatmate's boyfriend is from the zouch. i would give you some zouch facts i have learnt but they escape me :( you have marvellous accents!
It's a glorious place... The furthest place away from the sea in the UK no less.

[Otis Driftwood]

Peasedown St. John, LMAO! Poor St.John... :p

[Big Gus]

Isnt there an island in either Orkney or The Hebridies called "Twat"?

I remember chuckling at the atlas back in the school days over that.

[Nivvie]

Sandy Balls, (Hants).

Can't believe no one mentioned Cockermouth, (Cumbria)

[TAL]

Someone did.

[scotty]

I nearly bought a house at Blue Knob just because it was at Blue Knob.

[Shazam_21]

Sandy Balls, (Hants).

Can't believe no one mentioned Cockermouth, (Cumbria)
it was mentioned!

No one mentioned deepsick and sparrowpit (in derbyshire)

[bobaratt]

There's a Sugartit in Kentucky

And a Climax in Michigan (i've been there - bought the t-shirt)

I stumbled upon this:
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/Cities.html

I fell out off my chair when i got to Fort Dick, CA

I know it's all in USA, but who gives a shit, still funny

[Otis Driftwood]

from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6559343.stm

An Irish village has cleared the latest hurdle in its campaign to change its names to the Fort of the Harlot.

The loose translation of its old Irish title means "the stronghold of immoral women".

Many residents in the village of Doon in County Limerick reportedly prefer the name of Dun Bleisce, translated as the Fort of the Harlot.

However, locals said the name referred to a strong woman and local women were noted for their beauty and culture.

The first mention of the name Dun Bleisce was in 774.

The name was changed in 2003, but more than 800 local people signed a petition calling on the government to reverse the decision.


'Existing legislation'


It had been changed to An Dun - The Fort - by Irish language Minister Eamon O Cuiv after advice from the Placenames Commission.

However, local politicians backed the residents' campaign, which was also endorsed by a Limerick County Council motion of support.



More than 800 local people signed a petition to revert the name

Now, the minister has said while the commission maintained that An Dun was the "appropriate Irish version" of the name, the alternative "Dun Bleisce" had an "attested historical basis."

"As there is historical evidence to support both versions of the Irish name, I am open to accede to their request and it is legally permissible within the existing legislation for me to do so," he said.

Mr O Cuiv said he had published a draft order to change the village's name back.



"Assuming no strong objections are received, I propose to make the order in four weeks' time," he said Councillor Mary Jackman said she was absolutely delighted for the local people.

"I am really thrilled. Signposts had always been Dun Bleisce and I think it was bureaucracy or a little glitch in interpretation that changed it," she said.

"Nobody has any problem locally with the word. It is the old authentic name."