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In the many hours of searching for lost relatives details, what are the funniest place names you have come across? Here are a few that came to mind to start things off;
Pratts Bottom, Kent
Badgers Mount, Kent
Dumb Womans Lane, Nr Rye (the home for many years to Spike Milligan)
Slugwash Lane, Nr Hayward Heath Sussex.
Rod
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Six Mile Bottom....Cambridgeshire
Cockshutt Village.....Durham
Shiney Row....Durham
Pity Me......Durham
Tarring Neville...East Sussex
South Flobbets....Aberdeenshire
Bryan
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I always loved "The Land of Green Ginger" think it was in Hull
I used to live in Giggleswick. Yorkshire Ha Ha
Sylviaann
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Tarring Neville...East Sussex
Bryan
Poor old Neville :( but it's not as bad as it sounds :) as it's actually pronounced Ta' (with a hard A) ring.
My contribution is Spithandle Lane..Ashington..W.Sussex
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How about Shitterton, Dorset - sounds painful :o :o Jan ;)
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What about the Land of Nod - Grayshott, Surrey. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
kerryb
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A good selection so far. How about Hampton Court?
Another good one is at St Bede's School in East Sussex. It was the racing stables of Horatio Bottomly 100 years ago before it became the school. The boys boarding house has the address,
Stud House, Upper Dicker.
Any more??
Rod
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Theres a place in S. Bavaria called W---.
Theres one in Austria called F---ing.
but my current favourite is a place on the Philippenes where I was sent with work last year called Bollock.
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Rod - theres a Lower Dicker too...and if we're being a bit rude..
Littlehampton - W Sussex
Much Hadham - Herts
Laycock - Bradford
Arscott - Shrops
Broadbottom -somewhere near Manchester I think..
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The village of Bullock Smithy understandably prefers its modern name of Hazel Grove....
The Stockport-Buxton line has some of the prettiest-sounding stations I know, even announced over a BR tannoy with local accent: Middlewood, Furness Vale, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Dove Holes, Whaley Bridge....
And anyone who has hiked around Edale will know Jacob's Ladder!
MR
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And how would you have liked to live in Starvation Brow in Wigan, Lancs during the 1880's ?? Boy ! as if it wasn't enough to be poor in those days, they had to rub it in as well !!
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How about ****, Scotland. C.I.
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:) :) :)
Hi Kerry !
I also had ancestors who lived in Land o' Nod, but that was in Pendleton, Lancashire.
;D ;D ;D
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Some most unfortunate place names to say the least. But there must be more!!!
In Dorset there is a river Piddle and across the whole county a number of rivers are Ouses. There are many Butts Lanes. Shropshire even has a Crudington.
How many more can we find?
Rod
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My gggrandfather lived at Richmond Bottoms NSW
meg :)
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Nice to have a few overseas ideas from Oz, but there are must be far more in the UK. What about Stains? Or Rottingdean in Sussex? Or Dymchurch in Kent? And is Horsham in Sussex misspelt?
I really think some of you could try a bit more!!!!
Rod
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I used to live near a village in Essex called Ugley, my dad's favourite joke was to enquire after the Ugley Womens Institute.....
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Nick
There is also a Loose Womens Institute near Maidstone in Kent.
Rod
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Nice to have a few overseas ideas from Oz, but there are must be far more in the UK. What about Stains? Or Rottingdean in Sussex? Or Dymchurch in Kent? And is Horsham in Sussex misspelt?
I really think some of you could try a bit more!!!!
Rod
??? ??? ???
meg :)
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There is a place near me called Pidley, actually there is rather a good pub there too!!!!
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Essex, the county of so many jokes, has of course the island of
FOULNESS
Rod
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And is Horsham in Sussex misspelt?
Rob
Now you know why we pronounce it as Horsh'um
And how would you have liked to live in Starvation Brow in Wigan, Lancs during the 1880's ?? Boy ! as if it wasn't enough to be poor in those days, they had to rub it in as well !!
???Some of mine lived at Paradise Row in Bishops Stortford c1891 - I often wonder what it was really like.
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Blind Road Leading Nowhere - Cambridgeshire
Effingham - Surrey!
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Thomas Bolton lived at Hell Hole, Kilburn, Yorkshire in 1881. Must have been a lovely place!
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Today I drove down a street in Lewes (Sussex), full of up market large houses. It was called Rotten Row!
Rod
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Well it's good to see what the sweary filter doesn't pick up.. ;D
I like the place my g-grandpa lived Whirlygog Lane in Stoke sub Hamdon
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Pam
You might need to be careful that OFFHAM (near Lewes in Sussex) does not leave a nasty taste in the mouth!! :o
Rod
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I love the sound of Little Snoring, and Great Snoring, not far from Stiffkey in Norfolk ;D
Think I'll send hubby off to Great Snoring ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Su
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I apologise in advance. The following are names of streets in Medieval London which don't happen to sound funny by accident, they're just plain rude:
Gropecuntlane and the Bordhawe (Brothel-area) were leased from St. Paul's Cathedral. Cock Lane near Smithfield was named for the same reason (as were Love Lane and Maid Lane). Grub Street in Cripplegate was Grope Street. When Queen Matilda's "necessary house" was enlarged for public use, it's location became known as Pyssingelane. All found in "London, The Synfulle Citie", by E J Burford.
Hell is in Norway.
I visited Pudding Norton in Norfolk (a deserted village, just bumps in the ground now) during a history field trip at college.
An ancestor lived in Withy Pitts (in Turners Hill, still there).
In East Sussex, there are a couple of Cackle Streets which make me laugh (like an old crone).
Deborah
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Words have often lost their meaning over the passing years.
The delightful HONEY POT LANE might be a modern desirable place. A hundred years ago a honeypot was the nick name for the cart that collected the contents of the privy. ::)
Rod
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How about
Druggers End, Worcestershire
Nempnett-Thrubwell, Somerset (I've really got to get the T-shirt!)
Ready Token, Glocs
Wyre Piddle, Worcs
Adrian
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One that always makes me smile is Piddletrenthide in Dorset and it has a river nearby called The River Piddle!
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Dorset seems full of wonderful names:
Toller Porcorum
Winterbourne Zelstone
Piddlehinton
Puddletown
Winfrith Newburgh
Owermoigne
To name but a few. A very poetic county. :D ;) Jan
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My favourite place name is TIPTOE, near New Milton in Hampshire. I also like Knockin near Shrewsbury.
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The village shop in Knockin in Shropshire is called The Knockin Shop. A couple of elections back the usual voting station wasn't available and the shop owner offered the use of the shop but it was turned down. For some reason the authorities didn't want to send out voting cards telling people their voting station was The Knockin Shop!
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Sussex has a few more places yet, the village of Burpham and a few miles away in the downs Winding Bottom. Any more come to mind?
Rod
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Well, this weekend on the way up to Malvern, I passed a sign for 'Picken End'.
Presumably any end will do... ;D
Adrian
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Cumbria has a "Cockup," "Little Cockup" and a "Great Cockup" as well as some strange spellings of places such as Torpenhow pronounced Trepenna
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I love the sound of Little Snoring, and Great Snoring, not far from Stiffkey in Norfolk ;D
Think I'll send hubby off to Great Snoring ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Su
Drove through these yesterday. I wouldnt have taken much interest before reading this but there is a road sign as you enter saying "High Accident Risk Area". ;D Is that cos theyre all sleeping at the wheel?
Also on the way is Sculthorpe which has numerous red signs saying "Cats Eyes Removed" (moggy lovers beware!) ;D ;D
And Melton Constable - is that cos the weather is hot?
Helhoughton - and it was! Got stuck behind what I politely call 'Rolling Roadblocks' - the dreaded caravans!!!
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Loweswater has some safe roads even the road signs say "Red squirrels drive with care"
So I can't work out if they have to drive with care, or if they do drive with care
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That reminds me of all the
DANGEROUS
CHILDREn
signs
Sylviaann
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There is a village in Perthshire near Aberfeldy called Dull but my favourite is a called Pool of Muckhart. We looked at buying a house there but the name did put us off a bit!
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Nothumberland has a "Once Brewed" and a "Twice Brewed" on the old military Road, and isn't there a mousehole or similar sounding place in Devon or Cornwall (sorry to any locals for not knowing which)
Andrew
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I used to live in Giggleswick, near Settle. It used to be in West Yorkshire but it was moved to North Yorkshire.
I was married in Settle. When my Aunt told her children she was going to Settle in Yorkshire they wondered why she wanted to move.
Sylviaann
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A village called YELLING ( I think near Huntingdon) is heard to have a Yelling Mums and Toddlers group
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A lot of ancient names (saxon/roman) were discriptive of the place or people living there.
So cant imagine who lived at THE SCABBY ONES FARM in the north east.
The place is now known as sheraton.
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in a road by where i live the residents have put up a sign each end of the road.
DRIVE CAREFULLY FREE RANGE CHILDREN
jake
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What about "Idle" in Yorkshire I came across it on a census search
and what about this for an address : - Eskdaleside cum Ugglybarnaby seriously I found this in a search
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Talking of Idle!
There the Idle working mens club and the Idle womens institute
Sylviaann
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Is this real? seen in census (can't remember which one now ???)...
Crapacres Green, Cheadle, Cheshire.
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In somerset there are villages called BEER, CURRY and my favourite UPPER VOBSTER (I like that because the name sounds strange when you say it).
acceber
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There is a PARADISE in Aberdeenshire. I have certificates from my husband's family tree that refer to people living at 'Paradise Siding' :)
Cheers,
Clare
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Loweswater has some safe roads even the road signs say "Red squirrels drive with care"
So I can't work out if they have to drive with care, or if they do drive with care
My son and I always have a laugh at the sign on a road corner near us, "Dead Slow Children Playing" What, are they playing in slow motion? They'd be easy to avoid then, wouldn't they.
Rod - theres a Lower Dicker too...and if we're being a bit rude..
Littlehampton - W Sussex
??? ??? ???
There's a pond on Hampstead Heath which used to be a reservoir called Hatch's Bottom. The name was changed to The Vale of Health pretty hurriedly when they discovered that people didn't want drinking water from Hatch's Bottom!
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I used to live in a village called Quaking Houses in Co. Durham, and there was another local village called Stoney Heap.
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There's a place near Hernhill in Kent called 'Slutshole' ::)
Swampy
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Rod - theres a Lower Dicker too...and if we're being a bit rude..
Littlehampton - W Sussex
??? ??? ???
And Upper Dicker and The Dicker!!
Kerry
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Apparently theres a place crackpot in Yorkshire (Only one ............ ??)
It means a crevice where the crows nest
And I've found a: Danydrymire - Andy's Marsh (Old Norse). Dander is an old pet form of Andrew
Andrew
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Durham's pretty good for weird names. Someone's already mentioned Stoney Heap and Pity Me - i used to work in Pity Me and people thought we were joking when we gave out the address. We also have No Place and High Handenhold.
Veron
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When I was a child we used to go walking in Friston Forest near Eastbourne in Sussex.
The car park we always parked at was called
Butchershole Bottom!!!
In the 90s however it was renamed Butchers Bottom.
Not nearly so nice as we always used to say 'Can we go to Butchershole Bottom - oohh' and giggle.
Kerry :)
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Wittering near Peterborough. (No - there couldn't be a Wittering Women's Institute, could there?) ::)
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Ok...I know this is in America, but there's a Toad Suck, Arkansas and a Pickles Gap, Arkansas. There's a sign on the interstate that says "Toad Suck Park". Where do they come up with these names?????
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Wyre Piddle, Cheshire (wonderful pub there...)
meles
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Climax Colorado ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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Glad I don't live in Missouri - I'm confused as it is ..... !! :-\
"Not "
(So where do you live? Not Missouri - OK! then where?)
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Sorry to lower the tone but ...... !!!
There is a Bell End a matter of 2 miles from a Lickey End very near to Bromsgrove
::) ::) ::)
No offence to anyone who may live there but address Bell End !! lol ;D
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What about my lot - they come from - now where is that place - ahh yes WARE.
Cheers
Keith
P.S. Trust you to find the one in Colorado Annie ;D
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Hi Keith !
I nearly said ....... Hygiene Colorado
:P
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Hi Annie!!
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I could give you lots of Aussie placenames that you wouldn't be able to pronounce!
Just a couple off the top of my head -
Gulugaba
Tumbulgum
Jondaryan
Tiaro
Answers to be revealed!
MarieC
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Many years ago I remember getting a call at work from someone who said 'this is xxx from Diss office' to which the tempting reply was 'Well I am xxxx from Dat office'
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Hi Keith,
Hi Annie!!
Should that have been Hyannis, Massachusetts :P
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Gulugaba = GulOOgabar
Tumbulgum = TumBULgum
Jondaryan = JonDAIRYen
MarieC
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Many years ago I remember getting a call at work from someone who said 'this is xxx from Diss office' to which the tempting reply was 'Well I am xxxx from Dat office'
Reminds me of a great piece of graffiti I heard about! Someone had written Disarm today on a wall. Someone else came along later and added "Dat arm tomorrow".
ridban
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There's a village in Worcestershire called Uckinghall - which is fine as long as you say it very carefully!
Monica
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There's a place in Sedgley, Staffs called Sodom. Some of my ancesters lived and died there.
Magrat
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There's a place in Sedgley, Staffs called Sodom. Some of my ancesters lived and died there.
Magrat
Well if you can't find all the details out about them just ...............
Cheers
Keith
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There's an area of Raunds, Northamptonshire called Titty Ho.
Apparently it means "little house" ;D
Carol
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...I'm sure I could take pleasure in living in Hedon (near Hull)
Nick
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How about Muff in Northern Ireland, Effin in Limerick, Cockermouth in Cumbria, Brown Willy in Cornwall and my favourites are three neighbouring towns in Pensylvania USA...... High Point, Climax and Intercourse.
Mary.
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My father in law's family came from Muff in Co Donegal. Try putting just that into a search engine! My daughter came in one night when we had and said she couldn't believe her parents were looking at porn on the internet. (We didn't open any of them as it was obvious what was there!)
We now always put the "Co Donegal" in too !
Ellen
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There's a place in Sedgley, Staffs called Sodom. Some of my ancesters lived and died there.
Magrat
Just heard that my Stokes line may have originated there - honest ;D
Gadget
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Nice to see your Mum back Gadget! She looks lovely
Ellen
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Nice to see your Mum back Gadget! She looks lovely
Ellen
Thanks Ellen. She's getting quite famous, bless her. She would have been so pleased with all the compliments :)
Her ancestors came from Kells, Parton & Balmaclellan, Kircudbright. Lovely names, lovely places. The last Farm was called Nether Dullarg. Now there's a name to conjure with ;D
Gadget
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Whilst searching on the censuses I came across a place called Shite Haven!! Can't remember where it was though!
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According to the 1851 census, my Angus family were living at a place called Stickey female dog, near Darlington.
I have tried but can't locate it or anything like it to try to work out what it really should say!
Wotty.
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I always liked Carlron Scroop in Lincolnshire, it sounded very painful.
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There's a place called Lover in Hampshire - people go there to post their valentines cards.
Anita
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I like these road signs for Dildo on the south eastern arm of Dildo in Newfoundland. It is about
a hundred kilometres west northnest of St Johns. Residents of the town are known as Dildonians.
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There's a pub in Overton near Morecambe in Lancashire called "The Golden Ball". Of course this is known locally as "The Brass Knacker". Lovely little pub with the added attraction that it is often cut off at high tide, so plenty of out of hours drinking there!
Mary.
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There's a place called Lover in Hampshire - people go there to post their valentines cards.
Anita
It's a long way from Tipperary to post a Valentine Card :D
There's a place in Co. Antrim called BUCKNA
Chris
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It's about time we had a revival of this thread.
I like Cold Bottom Road in Maryland. Sounds like the farmer crawled back in bed after the 4am milking one morning in February and his wife objected.
You also have Hungry Mother State Park in Virginia.
http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/hun.shtml
But the tops is Baby Head Cemetery in Texas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Head_Cemetery
http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHillCountryTowns/Baby-Head-Texas.htm
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There is a place on the Central Coast of NSW which made my father giggle, every time we drove past it; -
Maiden's Brush Creek.
???
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My wife is a Hoosier (that means she was born in the state of Indiana). She said I should include a town from her home state. The town is named French Lick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Lick,_Indiana
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Rather a graphic one, which I ran across on TV: - Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump. It's near Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
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I've read about that one. I study archaeology and that's a site where the paleoindians stampeded bison over the cliffs. Must have provided a helluva feast!
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In Shropshire I recall seeing a sign pointing up a hill to "Lower Down."
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Truth or Consequences is the county seat of Sierra County in New Mexico.
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Twatt, Scotland.
Skoosh
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near Canterbury, Kent:
Pett Bottom ;D
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How about Send (Surrey)
Queen Camel
Indian Queen
Nedging Tye
Matching Tye
Mudford Sock
There's also Palestine and Bethlehem somewhere.
I live in Raunds which, as already mentioned, has a street called TittyHo (and the sign's always getting nicked)
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Some in Oz......
Burpengary (QLD) ....you wouldn't want to be called Gary if you lived there......
Binnaway (NSW)
Burrumbuttock (NSW)
Diapur (VIC)
Innaloo (W A )
Pimpinbudgie (QLD)
Nowhere Else (TAS)
Bogan Gate (NSW)
There's one I haven't posted as I'm sure the swear machine would change it! ;D
Dee :)
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Had a Fullalove Alley in Chatham Kent now called Bachelor St.
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A few of my favourites:
The Idle Working Men's Club has already been mentioned.
Up the hill from Heptonstall, West Yorks, is Slack. Along the road a little each way are Slack Top and Slack Bottom.
On the way to Heysham is the village of Bare, which has a Bare Women's Institute. Bare Dry Cleaners used to handle stuff from all over Lancashire.
In Nova Scotia I came across the town of Economy, which had many buildings which must have been built on the cheap, including the Economy United Church and the Economy Store. A little further west I came across a sign which said much about the world:-
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On censuses I have come across villages and parishes of birth which did not exist such as
Maderlane, Kent.
Woodtriop, Suffolk.
Phedge Naton, Oxfordshire.
Leydon, Essex.
Shitedpelob, Sussex.
Cobdeck, Suffolk.
Wemstinster, Middlesex.
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On censuses I have come across villages and parishes of birth which did not exist such as......
Did you sort out the real place names, coombs?
Some of my maternal line came from Jericho. It's a part of Oxford (UK). So is Mesopotamia.
Carol
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Not sure whether the anti-swearing bot will pick this up and chuck it into oblivion, so I'll alter it slightly ... Parsons Lane in Banbury was once known as ...
Gropec*nt Lane
Just saw this on Pub Dig, the other day!
:o
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In NSW the is Young, with its Young Womens Institute
Also the authorities are “evacuating” Pitt Town Bottoms as it is getting flooded right now
A Chesters
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Have a few from down under!!!
Chinaman's Knob in Victoria
Burpengarey in QLD
Mount Buggery in Vic
Numbugga in NSW
Damboring in WA
just a few will leave the tasmanian ones till next time they have some rippers!!!!!
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Not sure whether the anti-swearing bot will pick this up and chuck it into oblivion, so I'll alter it slightly ... Parsons Lane in Banbury was once known as ...
Gropec*nt Lane
Just saw this on Pub Dig, the other day!
:o
Grope Lane In Shrewbury is supposed to have the same derivation....
Cati
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Near North Bradley in Wiltshire there are two hamlets (originally squatters on common land in C19) named Scotland and Ireland. There used to be a finger post sign with something like "Scotland 1/2; Ireland 1/4" on it. It would be good to know that it still exists!
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Not sure whether the anti-swearing bot will pick this up and chuck it into oblivion, so I'll alter it slightly ... Parsons Lane in Banbury was once known as ...
Gropec*nt Lane
Just saw this on Pub Dig, the other day!
:o
Grope Lane In Shrewbury is supposed to have the same derivation....
Cati
There's a Grape Lane in York that had the same origin. There was obviously a lot of it about!
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As i have nothing better to do at 8am ::) here are some names from Tasmania...Don't quite Know if who ever named them just went yeah that will do or they were bored and hungry.
Eggs and Bacon Bay
Wine Glass Bay
Cox Bight
Dismal Swamp
Nowhere Else
Last one says it all...i reckon you would move from Cox Bight to Dismal Swamp ;D
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Somewhere near Birmingham we laughed at a road called Dog Poo Lane, then we realised some wag had sprayed out the 'l'.
giraffe
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Theres a place called Hallelujah Corner in Fittleworth, West Sussex.....
Jules .. :)
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And to continue the theme Amen Corner near Bracknell
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In Kent there's a village called Ham and just down the road is Sandwich [St Georges open golf]
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Came across a couple of strett names which dont think you would go near without medical help!!!!
Bucket of Blood Rd Arizona
Shades of Death Rd New Jersey
Ball cutoff Rd Louisianna
And to round it off Kickapoo Rd Texas ;D
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Flesh Hovel Lane in Quorn Leics.
Apparently it is where the old knackers yard was for the unfortunate horses that went on to feed the Quorn Hunt hounds!
Still, look on the bright side, I'm all for recycling!!
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Possibly the shortest name, "I", pronounced ee, Iona in Gaelic.
Skoosh
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There were some titters from the Grandkids when we stopped at a Picnic area in Scotland called Firkin Point :-X,near Loch Lomond
Loved the name of place at the top of a very long steep hill,also in Scotland
Rest and be Thankful :)
omega
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I found an ancestor at Scutch Buttocks (near Newton Heath in Manchester).
They were scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with that street name... ;D
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;D ;D ;D
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How about Looneyville, New York, USA and Zigzag, Oregon, USA
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Oh lord they never stop coming aye!!!
Woodenbong is not far from Pottsville in Oz very laid back area!!!!
Maiden Gully
Mount Mee :-X
Blowhard
and good old Mooball yep just a few more to add to the never ending list of unfortunate town names that keep us going!!!!! ;D
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Digressing ever so slightly (sorry!) - there’s a small market town - Loddon - in Norfolk.
Years ago there was a shop by the (family) name of Bugg. It is alleged that one day the shop’s phone rang - a young assistant answered it and said: “Bugg o’ Loddon” - and the caller replied “And ****** you too,” and slammed the phone down.
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....and "Buglawton" is just to the east of Congleton, Cheshire.
"Luddenden Foot" is in the Calder valley between Hebden Bridge and Halifax. Branwell Bronte worked at the railway station there. The side valley is "LUDDENDEN DEAN". Try saying that after a pint or two!
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In the township of Purchase, New York you will find a Quaker congregation known as Purchase Friends Meeting.
I have at least one relative from the 1700's who is buried at their Purchase Friends Meeting Cemetery. Unfortunately for genealogists, the Quakers so valued modesty that the majority of the grave markers provide only the initials and date of interment for the deceased. Not much help for the genealogist!
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How about Roughmussel in Glasgow or Little Fryup in North Yorks.
Skoosh.
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On the western side of Leyland I found a relative living at "Paradise House".
Just along the road was a house called "Purgatory".
Indian Queens, mentioned earlier, was apparently named after a pub, as was the town of Nelson in Lancashire.
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There's a place in Tasmania called Paradise.
Believe me, if Paradise is like that, I don't want to end up there.
Too cold!!
Dawn M
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Near North Bradley in Wiltshire there are two hamlets (originally squatters on common land in C19) named Scotland and Ireland. There used to be a finger post sign with something like "Scotland 1/2; Ireland 1/4" on it. It would be good to know that it still exists!
There's a New Zealand 1/4 mile sign near Lyneham, Wiltshire.
Plus there's Pennsylvania near Bath.
Some of my favourites:
Fingringhoe, Essex
Nomansland, Wiltshire
Crows-an-Wra, Cornwall
There's a road called No Go By Hill in St. Just, Cornwall.
There's a Y Pant School in Pontyclun, Llantrisant, Wales
There's also a Salem in Carmarthenshire.
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In Dorset, just West of Blandford, are the villages of Melcombe Bingham, and Bingham's Melcombe...?
No Mans Heath, North Warks., is near to the junction of the counties of Warks., Leics., Staffs. and Derbys., The pub there, named The Four Counties, is alas, now an Indian restaurant.
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My family once owned a couple of small farms in Durham. One was "Seldom Seen", the other was "Never Seen". As they are both gone now, no one will ever see them.
They apparently did evoke a childrens skipping Ryhme.
Seldom Seen
and Never Seen
Toddhills Farm
And Byers Green.
I think the local kids still use it ;D ;D
Neil