A place called what..!.!.!

[TropiConsul]

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!

[Skoosh]

How about Roughmussel in Glasgow or Little Fryup in North Yorks.

Skoosh.

[andrewalston]

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.

[Billyblue]

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

[James R. Yeowell]

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.

[Guyana]

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.

[Neil Todd]

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

Neil