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New Sat 9 Jun 12 08:55   Place names - Zero

We did "Dull and Boring" a while back, but here is an amusing little article. Like the bit Story recollected of old from my late father regarding two Lincolnshire villages. A signpost gave directions: To Mavis Enderby and Old Bolingbroke. To which had been added "A son, both doing well." www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18367156 Now off to a place near Pratts Bottom to film a train. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 10:18   Place names - PeterS

There's a signpost on the A614 to 'The Land of Nod', which I often think would be a nice place to while away the afternoon :-) tinyurl.com/ycm8pjm Looking at the map, its not far from Ladies Parlour, which might be of interest to some... Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 10:25   Place names - CGNorwich

Spital in the Street, Lincs is possibly a place to avoid. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 10:44   Place names - Dog

goo.gl/maps/lGNy Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 11:10   Place names - PhilW

Lowering the tone somewhat www.geograph.org.uk/photo/495731 and even further (warning - lots of rude words!!) www.i-r-genius.com/rudeplaces.html Sorry! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 11:27   Place names - NortonES2

One I remember well from school: Wyre Piddle. Recent find on 1923 map of Buxton and Matlock: the hamlet of Bummer Close. Now changed to Summer Close:) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 12:00   Place names - Roger.

I used to live in Pratt's Bottom :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 12:04   Place names - bathtub tom

Friends moved to Seaman Close. First time I visited I apologised for being late as I was looking for the wrong spelling. They moved again! Piddletrenthide. More a short story than place name. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 13:18   Place names - Ted

>> One I remember well from school: Wyre Piddle. Upton Snodsbury, Peopleton and Crowle. Wyre Piddle, North Piddle and Piddle in the Hole. Ted Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Sat 9 Jun 12 13:21   Place names - Dog

dorsetpiddlebrewery.co.uk/ Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 13:27   Place names - L'escargot

Fanny Hands Lane, Ludford. tinyurl.com/br2va9k Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 13:34   Place names - L'escargot

Wasps Nest tinyurl.com/cd8yyud Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 13:39   Place names - L'escargot

tinyurl.com/6vua8rz Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 21:08   Place names - T junction

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New Sat 9 Jun 12 21:29   Place names - Zero

>> tinyurl.com/6vua8rz I reconnoitred the railway at Branch bank, Prickwillow for potential viewing spots. The village has a Pumping Engine museum. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 21:37   Place names - Zero

www.prickwillow-engine-museum.co.uk/mirrlees.htm Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 22:12   Place names - Cliff Pope

I often go through Hill Mountain near Haverfordwest. Very flat, not a hint of a mountain or hill in sight. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 10 Jun 12 09:26   Place names - Roger.

>> I often go through Hill Mountain near Haverfordwest. Very flat, not a hint of a >> mountain or hill in sight. >> Yes - I often wondered about that when we lived in the area! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 22:28   Place names - R.P.

So I said little dicky bird why do you sing prickwillow, prickwillow, prickwilow.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 9 Jun 12 22:38   Place names - Ted

I could never convince people that I hadn't made up Huish Episcopi and Nempnett Thrubwell. Lovely names. A few times, I've driven through Pennsylvania...only takes a minute ! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 10 Jun 12 08:25   Place names - Dave_

The local village of Shepshed is increasingly on the itinerary of coach tours for Americans. Why? Because it's only a minute off the M1, and it has a street named Butt Hole Lane. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 10 Jun 12 08:30   Place names - Zero

I'd open a cafe down there and call it "the butty hole" Sell them chip butties. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 10 Jun 12 09:27   Place names - Roger.

..........yes, but the Yanks would expect potato crisps to be in the butties, not chips! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 10 Jun 12 09:33   Place names - R.P.

Lower overheads !! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 19:45   Place names - zookeeper

>> The local village of Shepshed is increasingly on the itinerary of coach tours for Americans. >> Why? Because it's only a minute off the M1, and it has a street named >> Butt Hole Lane. >> you must be familiar with flesh hovel lane, and slash lane near qourn TD? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 13 Jun 12 09:02   Place names - Manatee

I have a kind of synesthesia with place names and often they come with an immediate mental image or meaning. Milton Keynes and Weston Turville sound like people, not places. I found the Book of Liff quite odd as the definitions conflicted with my own preconceptions, though we did subsequently adopt some meanings from it - when we haven't been shopping we scour the fridge for Goosnarghs to make a meal up, often finding some forgotten ones at the back that have turned into High Ofleys. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 13 Jun 12 10:55   Place names - Cliff Pope

>> I have a kind of synesthesia with place names and often they come with an >> immediate mental image or meaning. Milton Keynes and Weston Turville sound like people, not places. >> That's exactly the effect often used by authors trying to think up unusual yet convincing names for their characters. Anthony Powell used it in "A dance to the music of time". Widmerpool, one of the central characters, is named after a village in Nottinghamshire. Interestingly, for the effect to work, it is not necessary to have actually heard of the place. English place names just are convincingly odd, and readers sense that authenticity. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 13 Jun 12 11:01   Place names - Bromptonaut

>> That's exactly the effect often used by authors trying to think up unusual yet convincing >> names for their characters. >> Anthony Powell used it in "A dance to the music of time". Widmerpool, one of >> the central characters, is named after a village in Nottinghamshire. JK Rowling used the same technique in Harry Potter both for characters and magical creatures such as Grindylows. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 13 Jun 12 11:24   Place names - devonite

Tis an interesting pastime to read through the credits of film and things, to find folk with names like everyday things! some i have seen include such beauties as: Albert Ross - bird Sue Nami - tidal wave Joe King - humour Lorne Green - fertiliser Nina Nana - ambulance siren Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 13 Jun 12 19:46   Place names - PhilW

"Joe King" I have a mate who married a young (she was then!) lady called Jo(sephine) King Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 07:13   Place names - WillDeBeest

Jo King has sat in for Bill Frindall in the TMS scorer's chair. Back to place names: Nenagh is in County Tipperary. I've told people it's where the fire engine was invented and a few have believed me. You don't suppose any of those film credit names have been made up, do you, Dev? I mean, how could you take seriously someone with a name that sounded like a wild animal? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 09:57   Place names - devonite

Well I`m not saying some haven`t, but I know of an Albert Ross, he`s a builders merchant in town, I also know a Teresa Brown (must have been born in autumn) and I know Nina Nana is a news correspondent, but I didn`t Gnu your name was made up! ;-) Last edited by: devonite on Thu 16 Aug 12 at 09:58 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 13 Jun 12 19:43   Place names - PhilW

"Milton Keynes" Milton Keynes was a poet who, having written Paradise Lost, devised an economic theory (hypothesis?)which described how to stimulate an economy to bring it back to prosperity. Its success lead to a further poem - Paradise Regained. However, many disparaged his theories and he wrote an allegorical epic entitled Samson Agonistes in which he cast himself as Samson - brought down by the "little people" - politicians. He was further insulted by the fact that a proposed new town (to be named after him) was in fact named "Milton Friedman"- though this new town was never in fact started let alone completed. Milton Keynes died in 1967 and is buried in a small Northamptonshire village. Wikirubbish 2012. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 14 Jun 12 21:54   Place names - TheManWithNoName

If it's all the same to you, I'll stick to my Rotten End. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 14 Jun 12 22:21   Place names - Bagpuss

Difficult to beat this particular place name in Austria. Apparently the traffic signs with the name of the town keep getting stolen, I can't imagine why. (Link deliberately nonclickable) tinyurl.com/63byd Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 14 Jun 12 22:28   Place names - Dog

Its only got a pop. of 104 so they can't really be doing it right. :} Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 14 Jun 12 23:27   Place names - Ted

We filled the bikes up in a village on the way to Fussen in Germany. The Deutchers call it Vank....but you know how they get their Vs and Ws mixed up ! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 15 Jun 12 04:05   Place names - Armel Coussine

Nempnett Thrubwell, mentioned above by Ted, has always been a favourite of mine as it was of my father, and got a mention in a letter in the Telegraph a day or so back. I have often wondered what is so appealing about it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 01:26   The 10 most unfortunate place names are.... - VxFan

tinyurl.com/chse4ge (Dorset Echo) 1. Shitterton (Dorset) - tinyurl.com/c49fozn 2. Scratchy Bottom (Dorset) 3. Brokenwind (Aberdeenshire) 4. Crapstone (Devon) 5. Golden Balls (Oxfordshire) 6. Ugley (Essex) 7. Crackpot (North Yorkshire) 8. Backside (Aberdeenshire) 9. Great Snoring (Norfolk) 10. Happy Bottom (Dorset) Last edited by: VxFan on Thu 16 Aug 12 at 01:28 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 07:02   The 10 most unfortunate place names are.... - WillDeBeest

No place for Nasty, Hertfordshire, or Bell End, just off the M5 and A38 in Worcestershire? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 11:29   The 10 most unfortunate place names are.... - Mike Hannon

My late friend lived in s***terton - it's actually quite an aspirational address if you live in Bere Regis. My Irish grandfather's birth certificate says he was born in 'Hospital' and I always thought that was the work of a daft registrar. In fact, it's a town between Tipperary and Limerick. Of course now I know about the Knights Templar and the rest. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 11:40   The 10 most unfortunate place names are.... - neiltoo

Often wondered if the Ugley Women's Institute should meet the Idle Working Men's Club. And as I've said before, I'm amazed that I can get Cockermouth through the filter. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 11:52   The 10 most unfortunate place names are.... - CGNorwich

You can't beat the name of this stadium. Always seemed appropriate for a bunch of footballers. Shame they rebuilt and re-named it. tinyurl.com/olzzrc Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 12:22   The 10 most unfortunate place names are.... - Dog

Isn't that where the Wankdorf Jam comes from: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7F1bZU9UoQ Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 12:47   Place names - Chas

Here's two more: Hasely Knob - Warwickshire Willey - Warwickshire Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 16:34   Place names - DP

I will be driving through the brilliantly named Wank in Bavaria on Monday next week, where I fully intend to pull the car over and have a photograph taken next to the sign. I will never grow up. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 16:40   Place names - devonite

Neither will I!! - so in that vein, make sure it`s only a photo! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 16:44   Place names - devonite

Having a "Juvenile" thought, it would be some "Mischief-night" prank painting a red-border around it, there-by making it "Compulsory" for all that passed it!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 16:45   Place names - DP

:-D Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 18:00   Place names - Iffy

A couple of places in County Durham crop up when odd names are discussed. No Place, which is near the Beamish open air museum, and Pity Me, just outside Durham City. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 18:28   Place names - hjd

Always raises a chuckle when the destination of the bus is No Place. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 19:42   Place names - WillDeBeest

When I first went to Durham I saw a sign reading 'Neville's Cross'. 25 years later it's still there, and I'm still none the wiser as to what he's cross about. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 20:00   Place names - zookeeper

Bunny in nottingham always makes me smile as i pass through, now and then Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Aug 12 20:23   Place names - bathtub tom

'chunder! goo.gl/maps/Ni5aU Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 09:13   Place names - Alanovich

>> Pity Me, just outside >> Durham City. I have a great grandfather who was born a number 1, Paradise Row, Pity Me. I understand that the street, sadly, no longer exists. I had a snoop around the place about 20+ years ago, but couldn't find it. Always seemed to me the most pleasing address I've ever heard, and probably the most incongruous given that it was probably a tiny hovel beside a slag heap. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 09:15   Place names - Alanovich

Surprised nobody has mentioned "The Land of Green Ginger" yet. It's in Hull. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 09:50   Place names - PeterS

And the "Land of Nod" is not that far from Hull, just off the A614 at Holme on Spalding Moor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Nod Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 10:46   Place names - Roger.

If I had juxtaposed two place names mentioned on this thread I would have been banned! Guess which two! (At your peril!) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 11:15   Place names - neiltoo

I always laugh when I open my OS 50,000 map of Manchester and look between Kearsley and Little Lever. www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=375500&y=406500&z=120&sv=Nob+end&st=3&tl=Map+of+Nob+End,+Bolton+[City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf Sorry for the long link, how do you reduce them down? Neil Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 11:54   Place names - Clk Sec

>> Sorry for the long link, how do you reduce them down? tinyurl.com/ Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 12:30   Place names - bathtub tom

IIRC a fairy threatened to put a link in. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 12:39   Place names - VxFan

>> IIRC a fairy threatened to put a link in. www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=10968&m=243715 I did say "If anyone wants it" but no one replied back so I didn't bother. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 13:08   Place names - devonite

Yep! do it! - I`m always tiny url ing! plz. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 13:37   Place names - VxFan

I'll get around to it at the weekend. In the meantime, I'm not sure what browser you use, but you can install tinyurl on IE's toolbar making it childsplay. Whatever page you're on, just click the tinyurl button on your toolbar and the magic is done for you - apart from pasting the link after it's been copied to your computers clipboard. tinyurl.com/#toolbar Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 17 Aug 12 at 13:38 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 17:09   Place names - bathtub tom

>>I'll get around to it at the weekend. Thanks. I did mean to reply, but never got a round tuit. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Aug 12 23:53   Place names - Dave_

Shillington in Bedfordshire used to have "t" as its fourth letter. The signs were hastily altered just before Queen Victoria came to visit, and the new sanitised name stuck. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 18 Aug 12 00:17   Place names - Fullchat

www.yorkeysknob.com/ Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 18 Aug 12 15:24   Place names - VxFan

>> I'll get around to it at the weekend. In case it's gone unnoticed - done. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 18 Aug 12 15:56   Place names - zookeeper

nottinghams used to be snottingham in days of yore.....dont know how the people of scunthorpe feel about it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 18 Aug 12 21:25   Place names - Roger.

>> Nottingham used to be Snottingham in days of yore.....don't know how the people of Scunthorpe feel about it? With care & pleasure, I hope. Reply to this message | Report message