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Off the back of the Penistone thread (Phnarr phnarr).... Got any examples of places near or far that make you chuckle in a childish way 🙂 I don't know. Something like...
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I was looking at a map the other day and found a place called Fingringhoe, just outside Colchester. I chuckled heartily.
Booze up in the Yorkshire Dales is a good one.
Also the whole Thong thing that's going on in the Holmthirth/Marsden area. Upper Thong, Nether Thong.
But the best one has to be a place down south called...........Bell End.
On a similar theme, the genius white lining team (or perhaps the council road planners) have abbreviate the lane markings for Wannock, to W'NK.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/A2270/ @50.8198973,0.2397028,131m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47df7173ccfa3513:0x1d2768d9f3986818!8m2!3d50.8172306!4d0.2439726
I drive through Bell End on my way to work every day. Still raises a smile...
There are a couple of places in Austria that would bring the ban hammer into play, plus a ****dorf in Switzerland...
Not rude, but I do like Ding Dong (has to be said in a Terry Thomas way) and Grumbla, both round here. And Tonkin Down sounds distinctly meteorological...
ETA Oh and there's a Virgin Terrace and a Salubrious Terrace in St Ives. Both misleadingly named...
My friend who lived in woolomooloo couldn't believe there was a place called Leatherhead.
I passed through a street called Colon when in Cuba this year.
Bell end
ETA Oh and there's a Virgin Terrace and a Salubrious Terrace in St Ives. Both misleadingly named...
I'm sure there is a house called Pokey hole on virgin Street in St Ives...
If you ever find yourself between Dewsbury and Wakefield you'll be able to visit Chickenly, Osset and Flushdyke
Mt W4nk near Garmisch has the wonderful ****bahn lift but if you go over to Austria there is a nice via ferrata up ****spitze
When visiting the Isle of Skye, I always drive thru Luib
Slack Top, and of cause, Slack Bottom...
Lickey End always makes I laugh.
Prospect , on the a596 .
"Nee Prospect, bugger all hope" is what my grandad said ,most times he drove past.
worked at a place where one of the customer records was marked up:
"Never abbreviate Clitheroe"
apparently the despatch people used to write it v. large on the consignments and the customer was a tad sensitive (ooh err)
We've got a Fannys Lane, but I prefer Scratchface Lane - I guess it used to be narrow and brambley.
My mate used to live in Bell End
[url= http://streetmap.com/map.srf?x=383710&y=94918&z=120&sv=383710,94918&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=544&ax=383710&ay=94918&lm=0 ]Just down the road from me[/url]
Tvv@t, a village up in Orkney is particularly good, rumour has it they stopped replacing signs to the village as people kept stealing them
(Creative typing to avoid swear filter but you get the idea, apology mods, but it is a real place!)
Upper Ramsbottom
Which may not be real
I've been to Dildo Arm and I have photos to prove it.
Riding around the south Lakes this summer - Stank and Old Breasty Haw.
And Playa de Poo in Asturias.
Titty Hill isn't that far from Cocking...
Fannys Lane,
I've got a top 10 time up Fannys Lane this year!!
"Dick Intake" @ Bowness-on-Windermere
Had a summer holiday in Galicia, Spain. Nearby village is called "****is".. 😆
http://www.galiciaguide.com/****is.html
Wetwang always makes me smile.
Both near Loughborough...Butthole Lane and Flesh Hovel Lane 😯
I hail from Cockermouth.
When visiting family recently, my 5 year old excitedly and innocently told people "Cockermouth is a funny name, it's like when you've got a cock in your mouth". There was a very awkward silence at the dinner table along with a few nervous laughs..
I'm seeing some twinning opportunities here...
@ 😀 Daffy, current Cockermouth dweller here
In cheshire -Lowerpeaover
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Or my old town in North Wales- Mold! ( and it lived up to that name being rather damp 90% of the year)!!
[url= https://goo.gl/maps/u8PEQEb14h12 ]Is that a didgeridoo in your pocket, or...[/url]
Edit; grrr
Edit edit; got it
Lickey End is a favourite, but seeing as someone already mentioned it, can I offer
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Mianus,+Greenwich,+CT+06807,+USA/ @41.043984,-73.6087458,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2989a7ade56f7:0x55032f17862f6da!8m2!3d41.0439859!4d-73.5912362
The freeway goes right through Mianus. There's a great little diner on the outskirts of Mianus. I got invited to party in Mianus. etc......
(I have genuinely been there, I know Jackass did it as well)
Work recently decided on a standard naming convention for customers' network devices, including the first five letters of the location.
First customer out of the gate: S****horpe.
Driving down the M74, Ecclefechan always raises a chuckle...
Nob End near Manchester
Jolly's Bottom near Truro
Mianus
Sorry for the tangent, but you've reminded me of a Spanish student I had called Miren Amiano, which translates as They look at my anus.
There's a good view of Three Cocks when you're on the top of Lord Hereford's Knob, in the Black Mountains.
I like the fact that Paradise is just outside Askam in Furness
Mount Buggery. Not far from Bright in Victoria.
Not so rude, but Wallish Walls in Northumberland makes me chuckle from the complete lack of imagination.
Again, not rude, but Blubberhouses always makes me giggle.
Round here we have
Little Ness
Great Ness
and my favorite
Wigwig
Ecclefechan
Should really be on Craggy island.
Blubberhouses
and not far away is Mankinholes.
No Swaledale ride is complete without visiting both Booze and Crackpot.
I often visit Welcombe Mouth. It's an uphill struggle from Sharpnose yet once one arrives it is quite breathtaking. If, on the other hand, you arrive at South Hole - you've gone too far.
Harry Hill always makes me laugh
Used to ride through a village in Essex called Matching Tye.
Blubberhouses
and not far away is Mankinholes.
And again not far away is Bedlam.
As for street names, I like Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate in York. The shortest street with the longest name in York. Probably.
There is a place near Congleton called Butt Lane. Always makes the inner kid chuckle in a Beavis and Butthead fashion.
And again not far away is Bedlam.
Probably not the same one, but Bedlam is just a bit further up the road I live on.
Probably not the same one, but Bedlam is just a bit further up the road I live on.
The one near me is just outside Harrogate.
I first started riding mountain bikes in a place called Spuncombe Bottom!
No innuendo potential, but I have always loved the irony of the sign on the A890... STROME FERRY (and then in little letters underneath, No Ferry
Can't believe you've posted a picture of a Map of Tassie and n-one's commented yet.
I just looked at Freester's linky and I noticed 'Tincleton' next to 'Puddletown'. Are there more pubs there?
Nether Wallop to go with Upper and Middle - all sound painful
Christmas Pie - always brings a smile
Not remotely rude, but there was a road near where I used to live called longtonguescrogg lane. Always made me smile.
Not rude but Christmas Pie in Surrey.
Again, not rude but Oogadugoo's a belter
Regularly ride past, always makes me smile
There is a well known (apparently...) bristolian porn star who lives on cock road. Another lives on seymour road, who films in her garden.
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There seem to be loads of names with "cock" in the title around me. Only the other week I did a ride that went over Andrew's Knob to Cock Knoll and High Cock and then finished at The Butts.
Also in Gisburn Forest, just west of the MTB trails, is a place called Cocklick End.
Also [url= http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=326746&y=532455&z=120&sv=326746,532455&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=544&ax=326746&ay=532455&lm=0 ]Great Cockup, Little Cockup and just plain old Cockup[/url] (just north of Skiddaw)
I rather like Upper Rhone Valley's Tallibahn chairlift.










