Funny British Place Names

richlevy · 01-24-2009, 10:01 PM

Ok, I admit that here in Pennsylvania, USA we have Intercourse, Bird in Hand, and Blue Ball. I still think the Brits went over the top.

Crapstone? Penistone? Wetwang? Crotch Crescent?

I wouldn't mind visiting Titty Ho or Slutshole Lane, though.

From here

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In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.
Others evoke images that may conflict with residents’ efforts to appear dignified when, for example, applying for jobs.
These include Crotch Crescent, Oxford; Titty Ho, Northamptonshire; Wetwang, East Yorkshire; Slutshole Lane, Norfolk; and Thong, Kent. And, in a country that delights in lavatory humor, particularly if the word “bottom” is involved, there is Pratts Bottom, in Kent, doubly cursed because “prat” is slang for buffoon.

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“It’s pronounced ‘PENNIS-tun,’ ” Fiona Moran, manager of the Old Vicarage Hotel in Penistone, said over the telephone, rather sharply. When forced to spell her address for outsiders, she uses misdirection, separating the tricky section into two blameless parts: “p-e-n” — pause — “i-s-t-o-n-e.”

I immediately flashed on Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. "That's Frahn-ken-steen".

It does sort of remind me of when Beaver College (now Arcadia) was an all-women's school.

wolf · 01-24-2009, 10:10 PM

One of the rat lab profs at Arcadia keeps a taxidermed beaver on his desk, just in remembrance of the old days.

DanaC · 01-25-2009, 05:54 AM

There was a place in Bolton called 'Nob End'
There was also a stately home called Sod Hall (said fast it sounds like sod all).

My cousin lived in a village called Rawtenstall (pronounced rotten stall)

My bus goes past a 'Cock Shott Lane' on the way to uni....

If any more come to mind I'll try to recall.

monster · 01-25-2009, 08:51 AM

yebbut we have a Felch Street here in Ann Arbor.....

I learned to downhill ski in Rawtenstall. After a fashion, anyway.

monster · 01-25-2009, 08:56 AM

How about Chorlton-cum-Hardy?

F'real. It's near Manchester

Fagley and Lower Fagley
Ramsbottom

you know, it goes to show how brainwashed you can get... I'd never thought of penis - tone as that until now. Never occuured to me. Even in the article I read it as Pennis-ton. Never again....

footfootfoot · 01-25-2009, 09:16 AM

It's not really pink, it's more of a penis tone...

Scriveyn · 01-25-2009, 10:20 AM

These always crack me up:

Wallop and Wollop (between Salisbury and Winchester
Puddletown, Affpuddle, Piddlehinton, Piddletrenthide (nr. Dorchester)

limey · 01-25-2009, 01:47 PM

Those Darrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzettttttt ones are fun! Not rude, but I found a Praze and Beeble in Cornwall ... (hallelujah!)

CzinZumerzet · 01-25-2009, 04:50 PM

Villages near here are Hell, and Velvet Bottom which sounds, .... smoochy somehow. 'Ooooh you've such a velvet bottie'.

TheMercenary · 01-25-2009, 09:45 PM

Those are good Rich.

monster · 01-25-2009, 10:33 PM

I just remembered Booby's bay in Cornwall. lovely, undulating, golden, wet...

.......sand

ZenGum · 01-26-2009, 05:57 AM

We have Dick Nob (in the Flinders Ranges) and Iron Nob in W.A.

DanaC · 01-26-2009, 10:14 AM

Update: I noticed for the first time that Cock Shott Lane has a junction with Dick Lane.

Sundae · 01-26-2009, 10:20 AM

Well fancy that!

It's not rude, but I have always been vastly amused by Blubberhouse (nr Leeds) since finding it on a map in my teens. I'm still smiling typing this.

DanaC · 11-19-2009, 04:16 PM

I know my first response upon reading of these people's plight really shouldn't have been to laugh at the placename, but I'm afraid it was.

From the BBC news site:

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BREAKING NEWS:Two hundred people being evacuated by helicopter after flooding in Cockermouth, Cumbria

01-24-2009, 10:10 PM	#2
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01-25-2009, 08:51 AM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	yebbut we have a Felch Street here in Ann Arbor..... I learned to downhill ski in Rawtenstall. After a fashion, anyway. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-25-2009, 08:56 AM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	How about Chorlton-cum-Hardy? F'real. It's near Manchester Fagley and Lower Fagley Ramsbottom you know, it goes to show how brainwashed you can get... I'd never thought of penis - tone as that until now. Never occuured to me. Even in the article I read it as Pennis-ton. Never again.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart Last edited by monster; 01-25-2009 at 09:04 AM.

01-25-2009, 09:16 AM	#6
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	It's not really pink, it's more of a penis tone... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-25-2009, 01:47 PM	#8
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Those Darrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzettttttt ones are fun! Not rude, but I found a Praze and Beeble in Cornwall ... (hallelujah!) __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

01-25-2009, 05:54 AM	#3
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	There was a place in Bolton called 'Nob End' There was also a stately home called Sod Hall (said fast it sounds like sod all). My cousin lived in a village called Rawtenstall (pronounced rotten stall) My bus goes past a 'Cock Shott Lane' on the way to uni.... If any more come to mind I'll try to recall.

01-25-2009, 10:20 AM	#7
Scriveyn amnesic-confabulatory opsimath Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Between my ears Posts: 739	These always crack me up: Wallop and Wollop (between Salisbury and Winchester Puddletown, Affpuddle, Piddlehinton, Piddletrenthide (nr. Dorchester)

01-25-2009, 04:50 PM	#9
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	Villages near here are Hell, and Velvet Bottom which sounds, .... smoochy somehow. 'Ooooh you've such a velvet bottie'. __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

01-25-2009, 09:45 PM	#10
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Those are good Rich. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-25-2009, 10:33 PM	#11
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I just remembered Booby's bay in Cornwall. lovely, undulating, golden, wet... .......sand __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-26-2009, 05:57 AM	#12
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	We have Dick Nob (in the Flinders Ranges) and Iron Nob in W.A. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-26-2009, 10:14 AM	#13
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Update: I noticed for the first time that Cock Shott Lane has a junction with Dick Lane.

01-26-2009, 10:20 AM	#14
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Well fancy that! It's not rude, but I have always been vastly amused by Blubberhouse (nr Leeds) since finding it on a map in my teens. I'm still smiling typing this.

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