Unusual Place Names
 

Following the place names listed in the Where You Are thread (Cities & Travel).

I'm cheating because I'm asking people to post place names they know, whereas I was simply sent these. I have been to some of them, but am offering the list as a thread starter:

· Ae near Dumfries. The shortest place name in Britain.
· Badger's Mount near Farnborough.
· Balls Cross, West Sussex.
· Barton in the Beans, west of Leicester.
· Botusfleming, near SaltashCornwall.
· Bozomzeal near Dartmouth, Devon.
· Briantspuddle near Dorchester.
· Broadwoodwidger near Launceston.
· Catbrain near Cribb's Causeway, north of Bristol.
· Chaldron Herring near Lulworth Cove.
· Chignall Smeally near Chelmsford, Essex.
· Compton Pauncefoot near Yeovil.
· Dog Village near Exeter.
· Eccup north of Leeds.
· Foul Mile near Hailsham, East Sussex.
· Frenchbeer on Dartmoor.
· Goonbell near Redruth, Cornwall.
· Grimness on South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
· Great Snoring near Walsingham, Norfolk.
· Gussage St. Michael near Blandford Forum, Dorset.
· Heanton Punchardon near Barnstaple.
· Heckmondwike east of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
· Heglibister on the Mainland of Shetland.
· Helions Bumpstead near Saffron Walden.
· Hinton-in-the-Hedges near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
· Hole in the Wall near Ross-on-Wye.
· Hoyland Swaine west of Barnsley.
· Huish Episcopi near Langport, Somerset.
· Idle near Bradford.
· Kettlesing Bottom west of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
· Killiecrankie near Pitlochrie.
· Leake Hurn's End near Boston, west of the Wash.
· Lower Slaughter near Bourton on the Water.
· Mabe Burnthouse, Falmouth, Cornwall.
· Mumps, Oldham, Greater Manchester.
· Nasty near Stevenage.
· Nempnett Thrubwell between Bath and Weston super Mare.
· Netherthong near Huddersfield.
· Nether Wallop near Andover.
· Old Wives Lees near Canterbury.
· Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn.
· Piddlehinton near Dorchester.
· Pity Me north of Durham.
· Pratt's Bottom near Farnborough.
· Praze-an-Beeble near Cambourne.
· Ruyton-XI-Towns Shropshire.
· Ryme Intrinsica near Yeovil.
· Sheepy Parva near Nuneaton.
· Shellow Bowells near Chelmsford, Essex.
· Six Mile Bottom near Cambridge.
· The Dicker near Hailsham, East Sussex.
· Throcking near Stevenage.
· Thrupp near Stroud (also one near Oxford)
· Thwing near Bridlington.
· Twatt on the Mainland of Orkney.
· Ugglebarnby near Whitby.
· Ugley near Bishop's Stortford.
· Upton Snodsbury near Worcester. (Borsetshire)
· Westonzoyland near Bridgewater, Somerset.
· Westward Ho! Devon.
· Wetwang near Bridlington.
· Wormiehills on the coast, east of Dundee.
· Yarrow Feus south of Edinburgh.
· Yetts O'Muckhart east of Stirling.
· Yockenthwaite in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire.
· Zeal Monachorum north-west of Exeter.

... and feel free to add any from your own experience!

Intercourse, Pennsylvania

Penistone in Barnsley, South Yorks. I've been there.

I've also been to Intercourse, Pennsylvania and the other Lancaster-area towns Blue Ball (I actually have family there, no kiddin') and Bird-in-hand.

In Ohio we have Russia (pronounced roo-she), Versailles (pronounced ver-sails), and Houston (pronounced house-ton.) We love to steal the names and butcher the pronunciation!

Entering Dennis
 

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I can't remember the last time I entered Dennis, but I'm sure I was probably drunk. But I'll never forget entering Shirley and Sharon (on the same night!).:o I miss Massachusetts.

On South Island in New Zealand, there are two small towns next to each other called Clinton and Gore.

That little tidbit was more interesting inthe '90s, when I was there.

Here's a sign in Western Maine

I had a good friend from Poland. He flushed his toilet with Poland Springs water.

Peculiar, Missouri
Tightwad, Missouri

I've seen the road signs to both Penistone and Ae.
And there are various "-puddles" in Dorset. Apparently they were originally named "-piddle" but renamed before Queen Victoria drove through in case in offended her. I was just thinking that this is probably apocryphal when I remembered that there is definitely a Piddletrenthide down there somewhere!

Oswaldtwistle ! One of my cousins lives in Oswaldtwistle !
Can we add Slack End? Another Yorkshire one.:)

My favourite is still Nob End in Bolton:P

Small community just west of Statesboro, Ga. is called Hopulikit. I have a pic somewhere......

Virginville, PA (Outside of Kutztown)

I'm not allowed to visit.

the first wife used to live in Hope.... that's a small village in Shropshire...


And who can ever forget Gurny Slade, after which a whole TV show was named.

...and I'm always somewhat bemused by Indian Chiefs in Cornwall...