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Offline Rod In Sussex

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A place called what..!.!.!
« on: Sunday 17 April 05 21:56 BST (UK) »
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.

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 17 April 05 23:07 BST (UK) »
Six Mile Bottom....Cambridgeshire
Cockshutt Village.....Durham
Shiney Row....Durham
Pity Me......Durham
Tarring Neville...East Sussex
South Flobbets....Aberdeenshire

Bryan
Brownell...Sheffield.
Rodgers....Sheffield
Harper...Great Barford,Beds. 
Hull...Roxton,Beds
Wostenholme,Sheffield, 
Elliot, Baslow,Derbyshire
Duke, Birmingham.....Sheffield
Palmer, Nottingham....Holbeach
Hall,Nottingham

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #2 on: Monday 18 April 05 12:17 BST (UK) »
I always loved "The Land of Green Ginger"  think it was in Hull

I used to live in Giggleswick. Yorkshire  Ha Ha

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« Reply #3 on: Monday 18 April 05 12:38 BST (UK) »
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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« Reply #4 on: Monday 18 April 05 12:49 BST (UK) »
How about Shitterton, Dorset - sounds painful :o :o Jan ;)
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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #5 on: Monday 18 April 05 13:13 BST (UK) »
What about the Land of Nod - Grayshott, Surrey.  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #6 on: Monday 18 April 05 14:32 BST (UK) »
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??

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #7 on: Monday 18 April 05 18:15 BST (UK) »
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.
Stuck with:
William Williams of Llanllyfni
John Jones in Llanelli
Evan Evans in Caio
David Davies of Llansanffraid
Evans: Caio/Carms
Jones: CDG, DEN

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #8 on: Monday 18 April 05 18:27 BST (UK) »
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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Sussex - Knapp. Nailard. Potten. Coleman. Pomfrey. Carter. Picknell
Greenwich/Woolwich. - Clowting. Davis. Kitts. Ferguson. Lowther. Carvalho. Pressman. Redknap. Argent.
Hertfordshire - Sturgeon. Bird. Rule. Claxton. Taylor. Braggins