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Offline rancegal

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #99 on: Saturday 25 February 12 19:28 GMT (UK) »


    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)
Bridge: GT Catworth, Hunts, and surrounding area
French: Blisworth,  and W. Northants

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #100 on: Saturday 25 February 12 20:06 GMT (UK) »
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


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Steeles, Burton, Garrod (Norfolk), Clarke, Tomblin (Rutland)
Bauer (London, France), Blades, Parker (Surrey)
Edwards, Coles, Smith, Nunley, Craddock, York, & Linnell (Northants) )
Ehmcke, Deimel, Appelkamp (Germany)
Watts (Somerset, Wiltshire) Selway, Churchill, & Chappell (Somerset)
Redwood (Devon, Essex) Button, Archer, Leach (Cambridgeshire)

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #101 on: Friday 02 March 12 10:44 GMT (UK) »
Had a Fullalove Alley in Chatham Kent now called Bachelor St.

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #102 on: Friday 02 March 12 16:20 GMT (UK) »
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:-
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #103 on: Friday 02 March 12 16:38 GMT (UK) »
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.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #104 on: Friday 02 March 12 19:11 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Friday 02 March 12 16:38 GMT (UK)
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.

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Bullock, Cooper, Boler/Bowler, Wright, Robinson, Lee, Prior, Trinder, Newman, Walklin, Louch

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #105 on: Saturday 03 March 12 00:41 GMT (UK) »
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!

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #106 on: Saturday 03 March 12 01:39 GMT (UK) »
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

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #107 on: Saturday 03 March 12 10:44 GMT (UK) »
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!!!!!
ellis...sinel...wardropper...griffin
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