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No innuendo, but Lower Upham always made me smile as a kid.
As did Six Mile Bottom
Minge Lane and Grope Lane were both places where ladies of the night would take customers for a quickie up against a wall, Grope being abbreviated for common decency these days.
Although I belie there are still one or two carrying the complete original name...
Travelling down to Cornwall on a regular basis I see lots of interesting, if not necessarily naughty names, like Gweek, Skinner's Bottom, Polyphant (!), Lower Woon, Trebilcock, Chybucca (!), Choon, Jolly's Bottom...
Dorset has Piddletrenthide, Piddlehinton, Yearlings Bottom, along with the ones the prudish elements of society had modified to save delicate folks, Turners Puddle, Tolpuddle, Briantspuddle and Affpuddle, which are all on or near the River Piddle, or Trent.
Not far from where I live, always worth a grin on the way in/out the valley. I once saw the local paper, which was pretty amusing - "Meeting of the Pussy Council", etc.
Not my photo, I should add!
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Nether Wallop to go with Upper and Middle - all sound painful
There is a Nether, and an Over, but no Upper. Middle Wallop is an airfield, and so not strictly a village/place name.
Wallop, in this instance, means valley of the spring.
Not rude but I like ma-whip-ma-whop-ma-gate in York.
Surprised no one has mentioned Hole Of Horcum in North Yorkshire...
Swing Swang Lane in the 'Stoke always raises a smile.
What's the place in Northumberland... Shitbottle?
Breasty haw is a fave riding area of mine....
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on one of our summer rides
Is it a bit salty in that lake?
I ride through there fairly often. Sting lives nearby....tantric....just sayin'.....
Regularly cycle along slag lane 🙂
Ex mining area
Was on holiday walking with the Mrs a few years back and came across this
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A lot of place names used to be very descriptive, for instance London used to have a Gropec*^t Lane. Many names were bowdlerised by the Victorians but it seems that quite a few slipped through the net.
Iron Knob in Aussie amused my schoolboy self.
As no-one has mentioned it yet Whip-me-whop-ma-gate Lane is a favourite.
There's [url= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimsting ]Rimsting[/url] in Bavaria, not sure if there is a curry house there.
There's also Uberfritz**** near Maria Alm in Austria.
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Near Canterbury we have Pett Bottom, and near Thanet the river Wantsum.
Crackpot... just beacause.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Crackpot,+Richmond/ @54.3690128,-2.0478264,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x487c1448334c768d:0x260cf99fefdf85a1!8m2!3d54.368102!4d-2.036561
I always wanted an address at the Land of Nod in East Yorkshire. Lived up the road for a few years in the late 80's and drove past the signpost frequently, put a smile on my face every time. Never went there to see how Enid Blyton it was, almost certainly just a disappointing farm or a cottage or two.
There's Weeley in Essex, which always makes me wonder if that's where the bins come from
FH upper/over quite right. Grew up around there and my parents live in Kings Sombourne.
A mate dated a girl who lived in Lickey Square, which meets with Mearse Lane and ****lington Road. I was just looking at a potential ride route today, passing through Thickwood and Blue Vein. It also goes through Box which, in the context of this forum thread and the combination of the aforementioned place names, is highly amusing.
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More Cornish names with Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor and Broadwoodwidger further west
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There's Weeley in Essex, which always makes me wonder if that's where the bins come from
There's a Ugley in Essex which on it's own isn't that funny except that for many years there was a women's road race held there which was called the Ugley Women's Road Race.
I still wonder if the naming was complete lack of imagination or a great play on words.
There's a house somewhere near Bretforton or Honeybourne (must try and find it on google streetview) called "No. 69. Dunswingin"
There is a well known (apparently...) bristolian porn star who lives on cock road. Another lives on seymour road, who films in her garden.
I nearly bought one of the houses on cock road but couldn't get my head around having to give it as an address so bought one round the corner.
BTW she doesn't live there nowadays 🙂
Not rude or innuendo ones but always chuckled at
Moscow in East Ayrshire
Burn of Sorrow / Glen of Sorrow in the Ochil Hills. The name matches the biking experience.
Oh I forgot about Poing in Bavaria which looks kind of funny, like rhymes with boing, except it doesn't. It's pronounced exactly like pooing.
As no-one has mentioned it yet Whip-me-whop-ma-gate Lane is a favourite.
I mentioned it on the first page 😉
Pedant mode, but there's no Lane at the end - the last bit, gate, is derived from the Viking name for street. Hence a lot of street names in York end in gate e.g. Goodramgate, Micklegate, etc.
And apparently they used to whip dogs there!
Quite near to where I live we have Haseley Knob.
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Not rude or owt, but I like New Invention in Shropshire.
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Moscow in East Ayrshire
If you look at Moscow on the OS map the burn running through the village is called The Volga
Burn of Sorrow / Glen of Sorrow in the Ochil Hills
Castle Campbell at the top of that glen was originally called Castle Gloom
Theres a lane called 'Stinking Wynd' in Culross and a lane called 'No Name Lane' in Kilmarnock
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Hoofinslats*
*not really a place but should be, perhaps in West Cumbria ....
Internationally, Austria and Norway
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..and if the name isn't enough, you can always twin with someone else
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I remember parking outside the Idle Working Men's Club a few years ago. I really hope it's still going.
I once managed to plan appointments near Ashbourne so that I went down Ladyhole Lane and Virgins Alley on the same day.
Scronkey.
Whakatane, NZ.
"Wha" being pronounced "Fu".
As it happens there are quite a few "Whaka" towns in NZ.
Hence the following advert:
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It's a bit out of keeping in this thread but I think Cape Disappointment is one of the best place names ever. It's not Tribulating, it's not Hopeful, it's just... sigh. Cape of Mech
Useless Bay is good too.
I always liked climbing up Fan-y-Big in the Brecons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_y_Big
Remember being 320 miles into a 400 mile bike ride round the whole of East Anglia and being a bit tender below, it was appropriate to stop at Rings End...
Another non-rude one...
Thong (in Kent)
Another non-rude one...Thong (in Kent)
Is Upperthong rude?
(near Holmfirth)
And then there is this street in Manchester...
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Can't say I was tempted to go skinny dipping...
In county Durham we've got
No Place
Quaking houses
Pity me
and over the border in Northumberland
there's
Once brewed and Twice brewed.(both are the same place)
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I saw an advert in a cycling mag for cycling holidays to "Peniscola"... Yep, Penis... Cola...
Now, I'm guessing it's probably not pronounced "Penis Cola", but nobody's going to go on a training camp there!
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this always makes me laugh...
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the street in front is...
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" Prospect" near Maryport in Cumbria. Duelling Banjo's anyone?? 😀
Wet beaver creek in the US?
Surrey Hills folk will know... Walking Bottom
and maybe lesser known in the hills but awesome name... Dick Focks Common 😀
Killiecrankie made me laugh the other day.
Those of you who have driven from Vancouver to whistler will be familiar with Furry Creek?
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Because despite living a few miles away for many years, I never knew the pronunciation (hint: there's only two syllables in the correct name).
And they say it's Welsh that's difficult to pronounce. 😆
I was just looking at a potential ride route today, passing through Thickwood and Blue Vein. It also goes through Box which, in the context of this forum thread and the combination of the aforementioned place names, is highly amusing.
If you'd extended the ride to include Yatton Keynell, you'd have found Tiddlywink.
Box happens to be where Real World recording studios are, and Womad's headquarters, Peter Gabriel living just along the valley.
Slaughterford is close to Thickwood, although the name means 'the ford where the sloe trees grow'.
An area I know very well indeed.
There's a Crescent near where I live, but it's not a Crescent, it's a Close. It's full of old peoples' flats and it's named after the church across the road. St. Peter's Church. When they built it someone obviously decided that a street full of old people being called "St. Peter's Close" wasn't on, so they called it a Crescent instead.