Place names

[AleisterCrowley]

My sis lives in Somerset (when she's not working overseas) and I've always enjoyed the local place names...
Curry Rivel
Long Load
Queen Camel
Compton Pauncefoot
Mudford Sock
-to name but a few
And try saying "Westonzoyland" without lapsing into a "Zummerzet" accent...

[idpickering]

This thread wouldn't be complete without mention of this village in Northern Ireland which has its own diving club,

Northern Irish Village

Very funny indeed.

Ian.

[panamagold]

Another, that I overlooked, in France.

Condom - département Gers.

Now, if someone out of France receives a correspondence from this town would they be in receipt of a 'French letter from Condom' or ' A condom from French letter?

[nimnarb]

BUSHYGAP, TITTY HILL AND HAPPY BOTTOM: THE BEST OF BRITAIN'S HILARIOUSLY-NAMED SPOTS

1. Bell End near Lickey End, Worcestershire - 36.35%

2. Brown Willy, Cornwall – 34.25%

3. Boggy Bottom, Hertfordshire – 30.55%

4. Twatt, Orkney – 26.20%

5. Nob End, South Lancashire – 26.15%

6. Fanny Barks, Durham – 24.45%

7. Scratchy Bottom, Dorset – 24.35%

8. Minge Lane, Worcestershire – 23.80%

9. Dicks Mount, Suffolk – 23.25%

10. Crotch Crescent, Oxford –22.25%

11. Sandy Balls, Hampshire – 21.45%

12. Cockplay, Northumberland – 20.75%

13. The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland – 20.65%

14. Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire - 20.30%

15. Titty Hill, Sussex - 19.90%

16. Backside Lane, Oxfordshire - 19.60%

17. Bushygap, Northumberland, UK - 18.55%

18. Cockermouth, Cumbria - 17.70%

19. Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty - 17.15%

20. Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire - 17.00%

21. Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside - 15.85%

22. Happy Bottom, Dorset - 15.40%

23. Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK and Spanker Lane, Derbyshire – both 15.35%

24. Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire - 15.20%

25. Wetwang, East Yorkshire 14.80%

26. Beaver Close, Surrey - 14.45%

27. Lickers Lane, Merseyside - 13.70%

28. Pratt’s Bottom, Kent 13.40%

29. Pratt’s Bottom, Kent 13.40%

30. Shitterton, Dorset 13.10%

[nimnarb]

Snorvey..see Number 24. Had anything to do we this?

[AleisterCrowley]

Lord Hereford's Knob not in there?
So famous there's a song about it...

[PinkDalek]

BUSHYGAP, TITTY HILL AND HAPPY BOTTOM: THE BEST OF BRITAIN'S HILARIOUSLY-NAMED SPOTS

Here you go http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Twatt.html, such that your list is attributed and so posters can see some images, including of a Scratchy Bottom and a Brown Willy.


Safe for family viewing, unless one is a Mail hater.

[PinkDalek]

Lord Hereford's Knob not in there?
So famous there's a song about it...

There's songs about many things, including a Rhode Island Red.

[AleisterCrowley]

"As I camped out one evening to take the midnight air
I heard a maiden grieving from somewhere over there
Who is it you are mourning?
For whom do you wear grey?
She said “I pine for no one, I just can’t pay my way
Ever since the chattering classes invaded Hebden Bridge
And priced the likes of me and mine
To the pots of the Pennine Ridge
To south-east Wales I was forced to flee
And now I have no job
That’s why tonight I’m sitting on top of Lord Hereford’s Knob”
http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/csi-ambles ... ords-knob/

That's yer actual poetry that is

[swill453]

I'll be in the Brecon Beacons tomorrow, and am planning to go up Fan y big.

Scott.

[UncleEbenezer]

I'll be in the Brecon Beacons tomorrow, and am planning to go up Fan y big.

Scott.

Damn, is that High Willy's missus?

[ten0rman]

And of course, there are those unofficial, official names which are used by the locals. I refer you to Shat. Or Skelmanthorpe to the unknowing!

ten0rman

[UncleEbenezer]

And of course, there are those unofficial, official names which are used by the locals. I refer you to Shat. Or Skelmanthorpe to the unknowing!

ten0rman

I guess I can leave you to figure out how to pronounce the Dartmoor town of Chagford.

[Lootman]

And of course, there are those unofficial, official names which are used by the locals. I refer you to Shat. Or Skelmanthorpe to the unknowing!

I guess I can leave you to figure out how to pronounce the Dartmoor town of Chagford.

AKA "Totnes-in-the-Moor". I have good stories about Chagford but celebrity-funded lawyers would make it unwise for me to divulge.

[AleisterCrowley]

There's a place near Yelverton called Crapstone. Well known for its poor quality quarry products*


* Stuart Lee included it in one of his routines

[moorfield]

* Stuart Lee included it in one of his routines

"Hello, Crapstone crap stone ...."

And Shitterton ton of sh1t "Well I'll know it's you..."

Genius.

[Itsallaguess]

Saw this and thought of this thread -

https://i.imgur.com/GaG5Y0j.jpg

https://twitter.com/ShepshedDynamo

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[AleisterCrowley]

I had to check, and it really exists... something to do with archery butts

[DiamondEcho]

Here's one for all my fellow overgrown schoolboys to snigger over:

Reminds of my the first time I heard that Zimbabwe's Kwange National Park is pronounced Wankee.

How about the men married to Corse or Loose or Ugley women , and the village in Herts full of Nasty men and women ?

I remember Nasty in Herts, we used to live near there. My parents were gazumped on a house in the then nearby village of Maggots End which is near Ugley Green in Herts. Wouldn't it be ironic to be named Green and live there?

... now would I rather know a person from Nasty than one from Hell [Norway] ... hmmm.

[tjh290633]

Wasn't there a Wankie Colliery in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia?

TJH