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Rather than derailing the Salisbury thread...
Nearby...
Wetwang usually gets a mention
My favorite is Land of Nod - I should go there one day...
Near me - I always avoid as it's just mayhem...
I love place names, but not silly rude ones. I love how they record the history and ethnic make-up of the British Isles; and how they show that we are all very much European and notions of nationality are all a bit rubbish. Makes me want to be a European federalist 🙂
I have a couple of favourites . Slack Bottom is just down the road from me, and there's a Solid the other side of town .
I also can't drive past the signs to Clenchwarton without thinking of Germoloids .
Then of course there's that Mecca for transgender Meccano fans, Bolton Percy .
Shitterton is down the road from me.
Also not far from the Piddle Valley (Piddletrenthide, Piddlehinton etc).
Oh this one just down the road from me too!
****t Orkney
My place of birth is pretty close to Thong (in Kent)
There's Hoo, Ware and Wye... anyone able to find a What, When or Which?
In Somerset.
This would be amusing if true. Sadly Chatte is in fact twinned with Roncone in Italy and Brettheim in Germany.
Cheese bottom near Thurgoland/Oxsring always raises a smile 🙂
I love place names, but not silly rude ones
PFFT! Regular MNPR venue and cause of much s****ing....
Appears to be frozen over
..and for the Led Zep fans
Near me – I always avoid as it’s just mayhem…
Where are you? Bedlam is just up the road from where I live (but I don't recognise that sign) - is there more than one I wonder?
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The anglicisation of Gaelic placenames in Ireland has led to a few funny ones.
In Donegal, you've got Muff, which is just up the road from Gráinne's Gap. Dear God, I hope Muff has a diving club.
In my own home county, Limerick, we've got Effin. In County Kerry you've got Spunkane. And they're just the rude ones off the top of my head. Other than those, there are some wonderful sounding ones - Ballaghaderreen in Roscommon. Kerry has some beauts - Sneem is one of my favourites, as is Duagh (pronounced D'waah).
Incidentally, if any of you wondered and didn't know why so many places in Ireland start with Bally (whereas no cities), it's an anglicisation of the Irish word "Baile" (pronounced BAL-ya) which simply means "town", or in some cases "village" and also just to confuse things, "home". It can also come from "Béal Átha" (bail aw-ha) (literally Mouth Ford - so a river crossing) - which any of you who have visited Dublin would recognise from its Irish name "Béal Átha Cliath (Bail Aw-ha Kleeya) which of course didn't get the English name - that comes from Dubh Linn (Duv Ling) - literally translated as Black Pool.
That's probably the most common prefix in Ireland. Others are Dun/Doon (fort), Carrig/Carrick (Rock) (eg. Carrig-on-Suir where Sean Kelly hails from - Rock-on-the-river-Suir; or famously in the song "I wish I was in Carrickfergus (the rock of Fergus)) and as above "Ath" which comes from the "ford". Bizarrely, sometimes names were just simply anglicised to the nearest English spelling and sometimes the names were translated and then given. Which is why we get lots of places ending in "Ford" - Wexford and Waterford being two of the most well known.
Where are you? Bedlam is just up the road from where I live (but I don’t recognise that sign) – is there more than one I wonder?
Near Harrogate - Bedlam is on the road between Ripley and Pateley Bridge.
In County Durham you've got "No Place" and "Pity Me"
There's a village in Iran called "Shit"
There's a place in France called "Pissy"
I've always liked Great Fryup Dale (Yorkshire, of course)
Not far from here, you can go down Slutswell and up Tomtits Bottom. Or vice-versa, should you prefer.
Balls Cross
Titty Hill
Jeffrey's Passage
Rode up here this morning
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/ @50.955836,-4.1431294,229m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e1
Dear God, I hope Muff has a diving club.
They're way ahead of you. http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/
Near Harrogate – Bedlam is on the road between Ripley and Pateley Bridge.
Ah, it is a different one then. The one I'm referring to is in Accrington.
One for the South Downs locals.. always gets a giggle from tourists..
FYI, Pron Hub is giving away free premium memberships to anyone that lives in a place with a rude name!
Aha free premium membership for anybody inventive enough to spoof their location - if you happened to be interested in that sort of thing, purely for the intellectual challenge, ahem...
Not at all rude, but I always find this sign a bit amusing
https://goo.gl/maps/5VUmb1geTCy
I'm planning a holiday- for some reason I'm planning all the ****ing holiday, incidentally, even though ChrisL and MC are fully formed adults and MC took time out from not planning the holiday, to plan his own ****ing holiday and now he's in Wales which is where we're all going, if I ever plan it. Anyway. Very nearly booked a week in Pantygoitre Cottage.
^^ and for connoisseurs there’s Pantycrug near Aberaeron
Shitlington Crags ..just over the hill from Bellingham ..
I've also wondered if the folks who live at Horneystead just along the road from Wark ( crying out for a graffiti kid ) ..actually are ..
I remember giggling at Shitlington Crags when I did the Pennine Way in 1977 !
Thwing is just up the road from Wetwang. East Yorkshire has some great names 🙂
A hamlet in Cornwall.
I love place names, but not silly rude ones. I love how they record the history and ethnic make-up of the British Isles; and how they show that we are all very much European and notions of nationality are all a bit rubbish. Makes me want to be a European federalist
Eh? Struggling to see how uniquely British place names show how we’re very much Europeans, especially when there are plenty of places in Europe trying to become their own nation states; does the word Catalonia ring any bells, then there’s Montenegro...
Anyway, around here there are signposts pointing to New Zealand, which is not far from Lyneham and Calne, and I can’t remember exactly where it is but there’s one sign pointing to either Scotland and either Wales or Ireland, which always amuses me when I see it. Piddletrenthide and the other Piddles and Puddles get their names from the River Piddle, delicate sensibilities changed some of the Piddles to Puddles, which is a bit of a shame.
Cornwall has amazing names, I drove through Gweek during the week, then there’s Brill, Constantine, Water-Ma-Trout, Goon Gumpas, Praze-an-Beeble, Goonhusband, Polkanoggo, Stepaside, London Apprentice, St Veep... There’s also Pennsylvania on the way to Bristol, which has a connection to the American state.
Cornwall has amazing names, I drove through Gweek during the week, then there’s Brill, Constantine, Water-Ma-Trout, Goon Gumpas, Praze-an-Beeble, Goonhusband, Polkanoggo, Stepaside, London Apprentice, St Veep…
Don' forget Cocks and Ventongimps
I should look up a bit before posting, shouldn't I!
Llanfairfechan. Childhood memories on way to Llyn Peninsula. Still makes me smile now
We live in somewhere called Lickham Bottom in the Blackdown Hills.
There's a Bell End between Hagley and Fairfield in Worcs too!
Struggling to see how uniquely British place names show how we’re very much European
Because many many of them (though not the rude ones) show French, or Norman, or Roman, Norse heritage.
We are (as they saying goes) a mongrel nation, with a rich history* and stronger for it. Much of that has left its mark on places naming.
*Cheating, treachery, warfare, disease, invasion, skulduggery. Enough to make you proud!
Indeed - Even the english language is actually a mix of other european languages - One reason why its so awkward and has such a large vocabulary. German, French, latin, Norse words all jumbled together
Opposite sides of Ashbourne are Virgins Alley and Ladyhole Lane.
