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Offline Manchester Rambler

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #9 on: Monday 18 April 05 19:16 BST (UK) »
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!

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ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #10 on: Monday 18 April 05 21:32 BST (UK) »
   :( :( :( :(

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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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #11 on: Monday 18 April 05 22:00 BST (UK) »
How about ****, Scotland. C.I.

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #12 on: Monday 18 April 05 22:04 BST (UK) »
 :) :) :)


Hi Kerry !

I also had ancestors who lived in Land o' Nod, but that was in Pendleton, Lancashire.

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BUCKLEY, Ches. & Lancs, DUNN, Ireland & Lancs. EDGSON, Rutland, Leics & Lancs. LYON, Lancs. McNULTY, Ireland & Lancs. MORRIS, Beds, Hunts & Lancs. SWARBRICK, Lancs. TURNER, Lancs. WILLIAMSON, Lancs.

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #13 on: Monday 18 April 05 22:22 BST (UK) »
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?

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #14 on: Monday 18 April 05 22:44 BST (UK) »


My gggrandfather lived at Richmond Bottoms NSW
 

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #15 on: Monday 18 April 05 22:59 BST (UK) »
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!!!!

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #16 on: Monday 18 April 05 23:08 BST (UK) »
I used to live near a village in Essex called Ugley, my dad's favourite joke was to enquire after the Ugley Womens Institute.....
One-name study of the Gallett family

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #17 on: Monday 18 April 05 23:11 BST (UK) »
Nick

There is also a Loose Womens Institute near Maidstone in Kent.

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