[Archived] Amusing Place Names

[cletus]

Where ever you go in the uk/world, there always seems to be a place name that can raise a smile Some are funny some plain daft & some can be rather suggestive

Please post your offerings of places you`ve seen.....(& remember, it`s just a bit of fun )

There`s a place in Swaledale we went through called Crackpot. Either it`s full of daft Yorkshiremen or there`s some serious drug abuse going on in the dales.

I`ve also seen a village in the Severn Valley caled Hampton Loade....sounds like a 70s American pornstar to me.

....can you do better?

[cletus]

.....& ofcourse there`s the now famous

[Ozz]

Kinda fond of saying Chorlton Cum Hardy.

[Ricky]

I lived near a place called Titley, which used toraise a smile to some.

Also a village I sometimes drive through has a road called 'Lady Gardens' which makes me chuckle sometimes.

Still think this is one of the best though

[b12_simon]

There's a Bell End in Rowley Regis, not so far from where I'm sat right now.

Tw@tt's also a surname. Place I worked at in the mid-90s had the BT phone disk (the one used by directory enquiries) and of course we'd look up these things. There were 28 Tw@tts in there, including Alan Tw@tt Potatoes of Banff, Aberdeenshire.

[Hannah]

Tw@tt's also a surname. Place I worked at in the mid-90s had the BT phone disk (the one used by directory enquiries) and of course we'd look up these things. There were 28 Tw@tts in there, including Alan Tw@tt Potatoes of Banff, Aberdeenshire.

In the BT phone book in Coventry there is a doctor called Dr. H Fhucks

[Cocker]

I'll add a couple

[Mc Love]

[speeeeeeedie]

Intercourse, Pennsylvania USA. The funny thing is that this place looks like it's full of Amish who are the most puritan people around.

[Hypo-Luxa]

There's a Cut and Shoot, Texas, a White Settlement, Texas(sounds worse than it is), a Trophy Club, Texas(sounds like a strip club) and a Bucksnort, Tennessee.

[b12_simon]

Rude Britain: The 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain. I got this fatastic book for a mate an xmas or 2 ago.

[Alan75]

Aplace in Cornwall......click

[Alan75]

would you buy a property here

[Claytons Left Boot]

.....& ofcourse there`s the now famous

I have a photograph of me next to that sign on Orkney!

[Friarsnig]

I've been up Benny Hill recently.

It was cold and wet up there, the wind was bad too.

[American]

Intercourse, Pennsylvania USA. The funny thing is that this place looks like it's full of Amish who are the most puritan people around.

PA has several humorous town names, including Blue Balls and Virginville.

[T4E]

I've come across several amusingly named cell sites in my line of work, the best of which have been Great Bottom Flash and Upper Badgers End.

[cletus]

Paps of Jura......she must`ve been a popular lass?

[RoyRover]

In Ireland there are the towns of Muff and @#/?stown. They always seem to get a laugh.

[Paul]

In Ireland there are the towns of Muff and @#/?stown. They always seem to get a laugh.

Always amused by Netherthong and Upperthong, the two I recall are connected by Upperthong Lane

[Wolverine]

The actual translation for Todmorden is Death Murder Village. Nice.

Being a traditionalist, I think Ramsbottom is suffuciently funny.

I also like Petersfinger near Soton. Only because my dad has a missing finger and is called peter...

[philipl]

Before the name sign was amended to read Turn Village, the farmer's yard next to it was always receiving unintending visitors driving from Rochdale to Blackburn.

[Hannah]

My parents live in Turton Bottoms

Wolverine, I agree about Ramsbottom especially if you think about the higher end of the place Upper Ramsbottom!

[RoversFanUSA]

Theres a road on the way from California to Las Vegas called "xxyyzz road". Its pronounced {Zie-Zex}. Crazy

[jim mk2]

My parents live in Turton Bottoms

Wolverine, I agree about Ramsbottom especially if you think about the higher end of the place Upper Ramsbottom!

Nowt wrong with Rammy. Become a very desirable place to live in past 10 - 15 years.

Pleasant village nearby called Summerseat. Must be something about derrieres in those parts.

Former relations lived in a road called Titty Ho in town in East Midlands. Much mirth.

Town by name of Iron Knob in Australia. Passes for culture down under.