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Just driven past Po House, outside Millom, and for the first time in my life I saw the sign was in an undefaced state. Come on teenagers of Millom, pull your fingers out!
‘Love Lane’
Often a coy renaming. See also the previous name of Threadneedle Street
and most Grape Lanes in various towns and cities.
There's a town on the east coast of the US called Mianus. I've driven a car right through Mianus. I had a hamburger in Mianus. etc.
Biffins Bridge.
Flat
Goodyhills
Both on the Solway plain, it's more of a mild undulation at Goody Hills.
Scapegoat Hill
Nr Slaithwaite in West Yorkshire
Shrewsbury has a Grope Lane, once known as Gropec**t Lane in medieval times, apparently.
Just south west of Wotton-Under-Edge is a place called Nanny Farmers Bottom.
And North West of W-U-E a relative runs a farm in Waterly Bottom.
Flesh Hovel Lane near Quorn in Leicestershire.
Virgins Alley and Ladyhole Lane near Ashbourne.
We regularly ride up Cockit Hill Over by llangorse
There is a village stores in the Shropshire village of Knockin which obviously is called "The Knockin Shop"
And I saw this signpost while out near Cardiff Airport, not funny, but it did amuse me for obvious reasons...
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When we lived in Rosedale (NYM) there was a Bell End Farm on the opposite side of the valley.
There's Cock Lick End near Gisburn Forest.
Of course if you translate the Gaelic names of lots of Scottish mountains and features then let's just say they are "earthy".
Lord Hereford's Knob. More a geological feature than a place name sadly.
Just remembered the lane opposite my in-laws.
It's called 'Pathwhorlands', apparently so called because the sailors used to 'walk' the ladies up there.
Unfortunately not local to me, but Makes me giggle every time I drive by Broadwoodwidger darn sarf
Lord Hereford’s Knob. More a geological feature than a place name sadly.
I have to look upon Lord Herefords Knob every time I walk out my front door 😉
Booze and Crackpot in Swaledale always worthy of chortles.
Nempnet Thrubwell
Butcombe
Spuncombe Bottom, Wotton-under-Edge
I live near Slag Lane but you wouldn't know it as the council have now given up replacing road signs.
A few weeks ago, I was working out at Pissy Beds Pumping Station. The work involves a lot of carefully controlled and monitored operations. Each operation logged through a remote call centre. Lost count of just how many times Pissy Beds Pumping Station was said that day
Cockermouth always raises an eyebrow when folk hear it for the first time..
The Bog farm situated near to Slaggyford in Northumberland
Shitlington Crags
Shitlington Hall
nr Bellingham Northumberland
Someone mentioned Sandy Balls as a holiday venue
on a ride past there you can go straight down the hill to Burnt Balls, round Hallickshole Hill and up Ragged Boys Hill to get the pub
We have a Slab Lane in our village - think there's quite a few about, supposedly mass grave sites from the great plague
I used to live near Lubenham. Not stand out funny, but entertaining to say. Always ending feeling like I sound like Rowan Atkinson saying that.
Pap of Glencoe (Tit of Glencoe)
Bod am Deamhain (Devils point / Devils penis)
Cioch na h'Oighe (The maidens nipple/points)
Shaggy burn
Fanny burn
The Bastard (a hill in Argyll)
And of course The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.
Cockermouth always raises an eyebrow when folk hear it for the first time..
With a bakeshop called 4Play - top marks for addressing.
Nempnett Thrubwell near Bristle.
Nice time trials out of Ugley and club huts still there. Great names in the area: Six Mile Bottom, Matching Tye, Much Hadham, Wendens Ambo, Hempstead.
Lusty Glaze in Cornwall.
The minister that married me and my wife lives in Whakatane in NZ! Mentioned earlier in the post.
Cockit hat and Cock my lane in my Edinburgh neighbourhood.
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We have ....
Just down the road which is exactly even Ruder in German. Also went through Kockish a few weeks ago and on a skiing holiday saw there is a...
Not a place name, but a British Heritage blue plaque on a posh stone gatehouse at Mickleham (just the other side of the A24 from Box Hill) - Fanny Burney.
Apparently she was a novelist, but I always point it out when we pass on a club ride, and claim her as the inventor of a cure for cystitis.
Every time I ride past here I can't help thinking 'because?' 😆
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There are three hills just to the north of Keswick called Cockup (505m), Great Cockup (526m) and then Little Cockup which isn't really a hill, it's like the lower slopes of Great Cockup.
Seems the UK has all of the Cock it can handle (which is more than a few Cocks)
Nempnett Thrubwell near Bristle.
That is amazing. Reminds me I once went to a place named ‘Sherburn in Elmet’
Have to say that it was so featureless that it became memorable for that reason alone. That, and I tried my first ‘barm cake’ from the chippy there. I ordered it blind-guessing that it may be some kind of satisfying Yorkshire baked sweet similar to my local lardy cake. When I got it back to the van and opened the wrapper... it was a flat white dry bap.
I always liked "Wideopen" up in the North east
But Penistone always delivers - sounds like a musical instrument you play with your old man!
Another Cotswolds one.
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Far Corfe.
Tassie has some good un's.
Many moons ago when driving south in our Austin Allegro we went through a village called Throcking. Shortly afterwards we saw a sign for Cottered. Since then , when tired we say we're Throcking Cottered! Coming from someone who lives a stone's throw fro Po House.
Cleckheckmondsedge. Yorkshire locals name for a conglomeration of 3 towns.
Not as good as Upper Dicker, though, in East Sussex. Not far from Fulking.
Slack Bottom.
Slack, Hebden Bridge.
I cycled through the Slough of Despond last week
There’ll also be Grey Lady Lanes and Black Dog Lanes all over the country, i’ll wager
There’s a Black Dog Hill between Chippenham and Calne on the A4, with a Black Dog Halt on the old railway line between the two towns, now Sustrans Route 34. A former work colleague nearly ran into a large black dog late one night on that hill - nothing ghostly about it, it was a big black Labrador belonging to someone who lived in a cottage by the road that had just wandered out of the house and into the road.
There’s a Tiddlywink on the way to Castle Combe, just before you get to Yatton Keynall, which always amuses me, it’s a tiny little hamlet of maybe a dozen houses.
CaptainFlashheart
No swimming.
Sting would be less than amused! Nice pub there, though; had a few beers there, over the years, due to my g/f’s Salisbury connection.
Nobody’s mentioned the Dorset villages situated on the River Piddle, like Piddletrenthide .
I going to look it up but i think I remember driving past Fanny Hands Lane somewhere in Lincolnshire years ago.
its in the wolds, between market rasen and louth......
Scrubby Bottoms near me makes people chuckle.
My favourite ‘historical’ name is the farm called Light-a-pipe Farm. It’s on a road at the bottom of a hill when you’re heading west in South Pembs. As soon as you get to the top of the hill it’s usually howling westerlies into your face coming straight off the sea. No successful pipe lighting to be done when sitting on your cart.
I cycled through the Slough of Despond last week
I think they just call it Slough now, the despond is pretty much taken for granted.
Bully hole bottom nr my old village in South Wales amused me.
Brown willy is near lord herefords knob if I remember!
Slap bottom is in the new forest and always raises a few chuckles in conversation.
Mrs Dubs’ cousins live in Lickey End.
Near where I grew up there’s a village called Christmas Pie which always made me chuckle.
I cycled through the Slough of Despond last week
I think they just call it Slough now, the despond is pretty much taken for granted.
I don't know of the 'Slough of Despond' in Ayrshire predates the one in Pilgrims Progress or not - although 'Slough' is a Scots terms so it probably does
No mention of Minge Lane in Upton-upon-Severn?
I cycled through the Slough of Despond last week
Ooo, I like that one.
I forgot about the wonderful Range of the Awful hand, including a return path via Murder Hole after a wee jaunt down the Rig of Jarkness and The Wolf Stock... I have forgotten how great Galloway names are.
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I have forgotten how great Galloway names are.
Like 'Haugh of Urr' or of course the fantastically economical 'Ae'. I quite like the strangely undecided place names on galloway 'Kippford or Scaur' on OS maps or 'Kippford (Scaur)' on road maps - as if the name of a town is somehow conditional.
"Where am I?"
"Well it depends on who's asking"
Actually the one most local to me that I'd forgotten. My nearest neighbour to the north lives at 'Wealth of Waters'
Cocks has to be a top ten, surely.
Austria & Bavaria are great for this.
Just up our road there’s Uberfritz****, and short journey to Chiemsee will give you Rimsting.