Unusual place names

[Bill D (wwh)]

What unusual, interesting or amusing place names have you come across?

My favourite is probably Rhyme Intrinsica in Dorset. One near me that amuses many people is Nether Wallop - there are also Middle and Upper Wallops.

[Matrix]

When I was a delivery driver my round included a village near Llandysul called


Ffostrasol


Always made me chuckle anyway h34r:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...num=1&ct=title

[Just Roger]

Dorset area seems to do quite well with good old Whitchurch Canonicorum and also Curry Rivel (Typo for Curried Rivel???) and also, of course the piddles and puddles:- Piddlehinton, Piddletrenthide,Puddletown, Tolpuddle (as in Martyrs) and Affspuddle.

My favourite though is Woolfardisworthy in Devon - pronounced Woolsery.

[gazooks]

In East Anglia you have Six Mile Bottom

[esim]

How about the small town of Knockin (Shropshire). There is a small shop there called - yes, you guessed it.

[Ten point nine]

When I worked in shropshire I remember an airfield with a grass strip at Sleep and an airfield at Little Snoring in Norfolk

[nobbynobbs]

There's always BEER in devon

[gazooks]

There is Cold Christmas in Herts :socool:

[Mrs Blorenge]

Up in Scotland, at 56°14.082'N, 3°38.156'W, there's a hill called Ben Thrush. Just about a mile and a half east of it there's a stream which indicates an unfortunate symptom.

I'll let you search it out on MM.

h34r:

[ivanidea]

There is a Youth Hostel (licenced) at Once Brewed, Nortumberland, close to Hadrian's Wall .

Another at Beer (mentioned above - also licenced). Do you notice any connection? :cheers:

Ivan

[DrDick&Vick]

Upper Dicker
Lower Dicker
Ripe

All in Sussex

[Maple Leaf]

Nempnett Thrubwell in Somerset

[Dave Gerrie]

I'm almost certain I remeber seeing Phillips Bottom in the Forest of Dean...

[keehotee]

I like Catbrain in Bristol so much I'm working on a cache to put there...

[Mrs Blorenge]

Bay of Biscay is to be found inland from Penzance and there's also the lovely Merry Meeting down that way.

I also think that Pennycomequick in Devon interesting: Must look up the origins of that one sometime.

[gazooks]

There is a stream near Perth called F*n*y burn

[Mrs Blorenge]

There is a stream near Perth called F*n*y burn

See my post #9 - That's the one

[gazooks]

See my post #9 - That's the one

Missed that one.... but great minds (or mucky ones) think alike

[Dark_Faerie]

Nearly crashed when I drove past a sign for Cocks in Cornwall not sure where, we were taking a 'detour'. There's a small Hamlet near Chesterfield, Derbys called Cock Alley and a Street in Killamarsh near Sheffield called Fanny Avenue!
Could go on all day, Got a book of the 100 rudest place names.

[*mouse*]

Me caching in Orkney a few years ago....... says it all really......

[L8HNB]

Theres a very old rhyme from around here:

Upton Snodsbury, Peopleton and Crowle,
Wyre Piddle, North Piddle And Piddle in the Hole......

All villages near to the Piddle Brook.

(Apart from Piddle in the Hole, that just makes the rhyme up!)

Just up the road from me is Lazy Lane too.

H

[Craig W]

Nempnett Thrubwell in Somerset

That's a winner for me!

Hello - first post - couldn't resist the thread topic. My favourite was Cwm Felin Boeth in Carmarthen - was disappointed to discover it is not pronounced as I imagined!


As far as people's names go, my favourite has always been Tokyo Sexwale...