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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #27 on: Thursday 28 April 05 21:41 BST (UK) »
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

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Barnett Altrincham/Manchester
Bates Hindley Lancs
Bowyer Altrincham Cheshire
Cunliffe Hindley
Hollingworth Hale Barnes/Mobberley Ches
Jones Salford/Altrincham
Ramsdale Hindley Lancs
Timperley Warburton/Dunham Massey
Yarwood Great Budworth,Lymm,Dumham Massey

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« Reply #28 on: Thursday 28 April 05 22:01 BST (UK) »
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).

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Linberry, Chatfield, Faulkner, West in West Sussex<br />Towell, in Shoreditch and Exeter<br />Spurling from Norfolk<br />Bateson from Norfolk<br />Snell, Lorkin, Norman from Suffolk<br />O'Boyle/Boyle from Donegal<br />Murray, McCann, Gunn from Sutherland<br />Davis, Bute from Woolwich<br /><br />Census information contained in this post is Crown copyright:  www.NationalArchives.gov.uk

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #29 on: Friday 29 April 05 08:04 BST (UK) »
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. ::)

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #30 on: Friday 29 April 05 09:04 BST (UK) »
How about

Druggers End, Worcestershire
Nempnett-Thrubwell, Somerset  (I've really got to get the T-shirt!)
Ready Token, Glocs
Wyre Piddle, Worcs

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Jordin, Cooper, Hobbs, Hardwick, Crotch, Carver, Taylor

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« Reply #31 on: Friday 29 April 05 14:33 BST (UK) »
One that always makes me smile is Piddletrenthide in Dorset and it has a river nearby called The River Piddle!

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« Reply #32 on: Friday 29 April 05 17:24 BST (UK) »
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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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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« Reply #33 on: Monday 02 May 05 14:36 BST (UK) »
My favourite place name is TIPTOE, near New Milton in Hampshire.  I also like Knockin near Shrewsbury.
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DUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin
YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood, Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow
NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton
NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson
LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson
WL-Williams

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« Reply #34 on: Tuesday 03 May 05 00:36 BST (UK) »
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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« Reply #35 on: Sunday 15 May 05 16:46 BST (UK) »
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?

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