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Starter for ten: "The Kyle of Lochalsh".
Hoots mon.
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I ride past this place most days out on the brapper on the way to Salisbury plain.
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I keep forgetting to take my swimming trunks.
Virtually everywhere in the galloway hills. The Clints of Dromore! The Dungeon of Buchan! Cairnsmore of Carsphairn!
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the Noel Edmonds innuendo thread 😉
Ecclefechan - Dumfries and Galloway
Mankinholes.
Make me smiles every time.
Passed through here on the coast to coast
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Clearly, we need somewhere called "Fnarrfnarr".
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Only in Essex!
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battledykes ]Battledykes[/url] - always thought that was a great name for a cartoon series and matching set of action figures 😀
Auchenshuggle, East Glasgow
No innuendos but I like
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and Kirkwhelpington
The sign on the M6 up near Lancaster somewhere for
Garstang
Fleetwood
Always makes me think that should have been a character in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Oh you lot with you rude ones, behave.
always loved this one.
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mind you, imagine if you'd "stayed over" at mr Winton's and were complimenting him on his brunch offering. 😯
Tree Magnet, Sting lives there, you know. 😉
Thornton le Beans near Northallerton always makes me smile.
Okay, some non-rude ones.
[url= http://cyclinginscotland.com/cycleroutes/crow-road-tak-ma-doon-cycle-route/ ]Tak-Ma-Doon Road[/url] (nice cycle route too)
Not far from me is [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Brewed ]a little village called "Once Brewed"[/url], but if you approach it from a different direction it is signed as "Twice Brewed" 😀
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I like the Kings Forest of Geltsdale, sounds like it should be in Middle Earth.
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Wow, that twinning is actually true and not 'shopped. Here's its brother,
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It's even got a fan club
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There's a sign on the A68 up to Corbridge for a place called Wallish Walls.
I like the Kings Forest of Geltsdale, sounds like it should be in Middle Earth.
Another area with lots of good ones. I particularly like Scarrowmanwick and Ironfork Cleugh.
uphillcursing > FTFY.
Poolewe
and for the Led Zep fans
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The Land of Nod and Wetwang are 2 that spring to mind.
Oh and Killiecrankie
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Most Scottish hills and mountains have Gaelic names, this is about the only one with an English name - the Inaccessible Pinnacle
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and not forgetting:
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Up the road from where I live.
[url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=175960&y=612485&z=120&sv=175960,612485&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=606&ax=175960&ay=612485&lm=0 ]Here[/url] Not strictly a place, but would love to see if it lives up to its name.
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Dorset has loads!
However, this one in Norf Larndan always makes me smile.
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Ramsbottom always make me giggle along with Blubberhouse and Oswaldtwistle
Drove through C*nter on the way to St Moritz, and there is a F*ucking in Austria...
We've got "Lost" and "Cockbridge" up in this part of the world. Both entertain my small mind.
"Shilbottle" north of Newcastle on the A1. the first "L" is regularly graffiti crossed to make it a "T"
there's a village in the Calder valley called "Slack", and there's also a "Catherine Slack" between Halifax & Queensbury. Not far from Dunkirk too:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=409500&Y=428500&A=Y&Z=120
Up the road from where I live.
I haven't got a picture, but just up the road from me is "Bedlam."
Saying it fast, my girlfriend used to smile over 'Isle of Ewe'. Then I'd s**** over 'Isle of Ulva'.
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Just down the road from me
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Glenelg. The UKs only palindromic place name.
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@Rob: my dad was in a plane crash in Ouagadougou: missed my first birthday 'cos of it.
Glenelg. The UKs only palindromic place name.
hmmm...
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=435300&Y=413400&A=Y&Z=120
I think "The UK's longest palindromic place name" is probably a safe bet though.
Oh brilliant. Ta!
There's a Button Oak and Button Bridge near me, possibly the cutest village names in the country.
On the other hand, there's a Dog Hanging Coppice in the Wyre Forest and a Boy's Grave in the Forest of Dean.
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Nice one Ton 😆
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[url= http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=327115&Y=721805&A=Y&Z=120 ]this[/url] is probably fairly descriptive if you happen to be there.
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or
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There's a good bike ride round Shropshire where you start of at Loggerheads, go to Sleap for a bit and end up at Woore. About 50 miles.
Stewart Lee's routine on Shilbottle, Shitterton and Crapstone is one of the funniest shows I've seen.
Just spotted this on Facebook, seemed appropriate. (I expect it's Photoshoppery rather than a modded sign, but still...)
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Always get a bit worried riding through here, never got tangled in barbed wire or fallen in a trench yet though!
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Bunnahabhain....great unpronounceables of our time, as the advert used to say!
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not to be confused with
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Malvernrider - how did you pick up that OS map image?
Nice one Ton
not many will know it.
Westward Ho! (say it as though you're an MC just coming onto the stage)
I think it's the only place in the country with a punctuation mark in the name. Not bad going.
Westward Ho! (say it as though you're an MC just coming onto the stage)
Or a Thundercat.
I think it's the only place in the country with a punctuation mark in the name. Not bad going.
Clayton-Le-Moors (and probably many others).
It's the only place in the country with an exclamation mark in the name.
Near Beacon Fell country park we have Startifants Lane, which I always read as "Fartipants".
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/favourite-place-names-1#post-6421693 ]Three hours too late breatheeasy[/url] but props for bothering to find the photos. 😀
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Just north of Settle you can find Giggleswick, Eldroth and Lawkland which all sound a bit Harry Potterish and Wham, which sounds a bit Andrew Ridgeleyish.
The Inaccessible Pinnacle
Why's it called that then?
I used to live at Running Waters just outside Durham.
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In Wollaston, Northants.
Praze-an-Beeble, Gweek and Trengilly Wartha... all in Cornwall, and all shouted out with relish when seen on road signs. I'd like to visit Tegucigalpa, just so I can say I have been there... but that is in Honduras.
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Missing a N. 
near Tain iirc.
There is also a sign just outside Fraserburgh: Gash, always make me smile.
Oooh, i've been to praze-an-beeble. Nice it is. Also in cornwall is the famous Brown Willy, a little hamlet called Talskiddy, and other pleasant sounding places like landulph, catchfrench and zennor. Oh, and Hatt.
Lots of places in Northumberland have lovely names, not so much 'places' though as just names on the map.
Bloodybush Edge
Beefstand Hill
Ewartly Shank
Windy Gyle
Cottonshopeburnfoot.
The list is endless!
Yeah, we've got loads of good ones down here in Cornwall. I live within a couple of miles of Grumbla, Tonkin Down, Georgia Bottom, Noon Diggery and Bay of Biscay (which ironically is about as far from the sea as you can get in Penwith). And the two industrial estates in Helston are called Water-ma-Trout and Gilly-Gabben.
Many of the old Cornish place names have a wonderful rhythm about them. "Higher Bologgas", "Tremethick" or "Trezelah" anyone? (Stress on the second syllable).
"Bottoms" and "Ding Dong" are my favourites, though.
Trezelah" anyone? (Stress on the second syllable).
Isn't that where Doctor Who died?
Knockin near Oswestry in Shropshire. Guess what the sign says above ths local store......
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Great diving club