One or two Lancashire ones.. Heywood... a town between Rochdale and Bury is known as "Monkey town" there are 2 theories:- one is that Noah's ark touched down nearby and some of the apes escaped and interbred with the local inhabitants..as a child I believed that the stools in pubs had holes in so folk could put their tails through.
Another theory is that Irish navvies building the road between Rochdale and Bury , pronounced the name of a hamlet , Heap bridge, as "Ape Bridge".....
Wigan folk are known as "pie eaters"..again various theories...
Bacup is also known as "giddy meadows" and oswaldtwistle as "gobbin land" just to clarify the folk aren't stupid ...
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