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My son has an office in Poundland, which sounds like it should be on the shit end of every high street everywhere, rather than South Ayrshire!
One of the places he manages is Sorn, which surprisingly is on a road in East Ayrshire….
And for the Calderdale Contingent, shouldn’t Barkisland be south of Canary Wharf?
Rievaulx sounds like it should be in France
Penrith and Penruddock could be in Wales
Lampeter sounds like a London suberb
Suburb
Glendale
Having abit of crisis of identity 😅
And for the Calderdale Contingent, shouldn’t Barkisland be south of Canary Wharf?
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Worryingly I'm in Stainland. There isn't a Y-front factory here
Always thought that Dunbar sounds like it should be on the West Coast.
Aspatria - sounds like it should somewhere in Greece
currently live in Surrey Hills...sour dough bakers, coffee shops, organic veg, wine bars (no pubs) and trees on the pavement...an inner Melbourne suburb (in Aus' not Derbyshire, in Victoria but not in Canada)...the "what tyres for Surrey Hills" threads somehow catch my attention
“what tyres for Surrey Hills”
Well when I lived in Elwood and cycled to Burwood to Deakin for Uni I used Specialized Fat Boys…
But I was always tempted to swap to some Onza Porcupines on the way through Malvern.
Ponsanooth sounds like a rough estate on the outskirts of Glasgow affectionately known as ‘Ponzy’
Not a village in Cornwall between Falmouth and Redruth
Scotswood in Newcastle sounds as if it should be in...scotland.
I lived in North Skelton for a handful of years. It's south-east of Skelton!
But it is north of the old site of South Skelton mine which no longer exists.
I went out with a girl for a while whose address was Roughley, Sutton Coldfield.
So not properly Sutton Coldfield, then.
Iceland can be found in a lot of towns in the UK.
Newark Castle
all of them
River Tyne
both of them
River Esk
all of them
Never understood what Wrexham is doing in North Wales
Mogador
Not the port city nowadays known as Essaouira, it's actually next to the M25 Reigate exit.
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Doublebois is Cornwall, should be in France
Also in Cornwall:
Bay of Biscay
Sheffield
Radnor
Ding Dong (should be in a Carry On film)
Knave-go-by (should be in the 15th century)
And the ironically named North Country (couple of miles south of Portreath - but still oop north for some of us)
County Durham not being in northern ireland causes me actual physical symptoms
Aboyne: sounds like it should be in Ulster, not Deeside
Carnwath and Wemyss Bay are places in Wales
Ae clearly belongs in Fife
Crook of Devon in, er, Devon
Ardeer in Norn Irn (TBF see previous entry for Stranraer)
Port William at least somewhere near Fort William
Port of Menteith near a body of water big enough to support a port.
Patna? I dunno, Irkutsk, Kamchatka or, preferably, the Hellas Basin.
Royston clearly belongs in Lancashire, not Hertfordshire.
Here I thought it was in Glasgow.
Nope, it should be in ****t (Orkney)
Fun fact, it's no longer marked with any road signs, presumably because people befitting the description kept stealing them.
Cologne should be in France, not Germany
Strasbourg should be in Germany, not France
Agree but Germans at least call it Köln.
Beauly, in name and feel, should be just outside Bristol.
If not in sound. Definitely not in sound.
Yeah, but they’re next to Loch Leven – and Loch Lomond is drained by the River Leven.
No they're not, that's Glencoe you're thinking of.
Theres a New York in Lincolnshire
Bury st Edmunds.
Didn’t know he died
Nope, it should be in ****t (Orkney
Also one in Shetland, signs still there 😁
Omaha beach Vs Omaha Nebraska is a confusing one
Ponteland should be in France and not Northumberland.
Byrness should be in Scotland
Langdon Beck to me should be in the Lake District.
Got a Balls Green just over the hill from me, clearly it should be on an STD menu.
Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch. All in Dorset but clearly should be in Hampshire!
And another in Cornwall - London Apprentice. Should be in London?
Darenth should be in Wales. Careful posing next to the sign is one of my headshots. It’s next to Dartford if you’re interested and I ride through it on a circumnavigation of the M25.
So where should the village of No Place be?
If it really is like Holme then it should be in Cumbria
And the nearby Darent Valley hospital sounds like it should be in S Wales, or maybe New South Wales ?
Spion Kop in Nottinghamshire sounds like it should be/is in South Africa
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When I'm on Google Maps I often wonder what Great Britain is doing between Blackburn and Clitheroe
Moscow on the Cumbria\Northumberland border.
Always have a chuckle at 'No Place'road sign when visiting Beamish 🙂
Omaha beach Vs Omaha Nebraska is a confusing one
That was never it's historical name, that was just a coded name for D Day along with Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword.
There's an area of Ipswich that's also California. It's something to do with Freeholders and would explain the surfeit of them nationally.
My son has an office in Poundland, which sounds like it should be on the shit end of every high street everywhere, rather than South Ayrshire!
One of the places he manages is Sorn, which surprisingly is on a road in East Ayrshire….
I lived in Sorn until just a few days ago - a bit of Ayrshire that hardly anyone in Ayrshire seems to realise exists - people hardly ever know where I'm talking about even if they're pretty local. A supplier of mine in Glaston recently proudly told me he'd been to Sorn a few weeks back - he'd lived in Galston all his life, theres a sign to Sorn right in the middle of Galston, theres only really four roads out of Galston and the road to Sorn is one of them.....he'd never been there before.
And yet - I've met a surprising number of people further afield who know all about it - bumped into an old guy in Stoke on Trent who it turned out used to play in the building that would later be converted into my house when he was a kid, told me there used to be a cider press in there at one point which I later found out was correct "Oh so did you grow up in Sorn then?" "No I grew up in Stoke on Trent"
Always have a chuckle at ‘No Place’road sign when visiting Beamish
In Kilmarnock when the high street was pedestrianised they carved the names of the lanes and side roads into the pavement. Only problem with the plan was one of the lanes didnt have a name.
The Lincolnshire village of Boothby Graffoe should be on stage.
doffs hat
Tirabad. It’s a little village in Powys near Llanwrtyd but it sounds like it should be in Iran.
Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch. All in Dorset but clearly should be in Hampshire!
83% of Christchurch voted not to be in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
The Lincolnshire village of Boothby Graffoe should be on stage.
doffs hat
Assume you know that wasn't coincidental - he chose the stage name intentionally.
Smegness is in the wrong place. It should be on a different planet.
@maccruiskeen
Small world! Sorn is reasonably well known (outside of Ayrshire...) as it was a big sporting estate. It isn't now, the estate has diversified into agriculture, forestry and the castle is a wedding venue. My lad lived there when he first started with the company that manages it, and lived in a flat in the castle coach house. He was then given a house off the road that leads from Sorn to Galston. Talking of places where they shouldn't be, Galston is just south of Moscow!
Where was your gaff with its former cider press?
Strasbourg should be in Germany, not France
I think it was, originally.
Don't think anyone's done this one yet...
Devizes should be in Cornwall, not Wiltshire.
Oh and there's another New Zealand in Wilts - I sometimes cycle there which always* gets a laugh** when I say where I went on the weekend's ride
Where was your gaff with its former cider press?
In the same courtyard 🙂
Galston is just south of Moscow!
The burn that runs through the Moscow is called the Volga - true story.
Near Symington in Ayrshire is 'Slough of Despond' that sounds like it should be in a Milton poem 🙂
Toronto in County Durham?
Drove through Saughall Massie yesterday on the Wirral.
Not sure where that should be but it ain't the Wirral.
There's a (possible) urban myth about the Estonian lorry driver that had a delivery to Gibraltar,some days after punching the destination into his GPS, he arrived slightly confused at Gibraltar Point near Grimsby. You would have thought crossing the channel and driving on the left would have raised a few suspicions.
Saughall Massie
I think it's in Kenya no?
There’s a (possible) urban myth
I can't imagine that would be true. You wouldn't put just 'Gibraltar' into your satnav, it'd be '34 Monkey St, Gibraltar' or whatever.
Pity Me, again County Durham via Dickens.
There’s a (possible) urban myth
Google suggests Syrian - there quite a few articles
https://www.theregister.com/2008/07/22/satnav_blunder/
Well bugger me it is true.
Drove through Saughall Massie yesterday on the Wirral.
Not sure where that should be but it ain’t the Wirral.
Same for Meols Cop.
And don't let the locals hear you try to say it.
Theres an odd things in Galloway with villages having two names... Or are there actually two villages but each of their existences is conditional on .... something?
'Kippford or Scaur'
'Crocketford or Nine Mile Bar'
- "Excuse me, is the the road to Kippford?"
- "Depends who's asking"
But if you arrive in Crocketford and its Crocketfrod .... where is Nine Mile Bar? Could there be places that are not just in the wrong place but in the wrong dimension?
Whereas in Kent I do like the fact that the hamlet of Ham is close to the town of Sandwich, exactly where it should be.
In a similar but not identical vein I used to live on 'Avenue Road' which always made me smile.
Near Symington in Ayrshire is ‘Slough of Despond’ that sounds like it should be in a Milton poem
Or East Ayrshire. Interestingly it is actually named after a place in the allegory The Pilgrims Progress. I did not know that
Speaking of Galston though, Cessnock Castle.
Whereas in Kent I do like the fact that the hamlet of Ham is close to the town of Sandwich, exactly where it should be.
Miles away from Cheddar, Wensleydale, Gloucester (x2), or Stilton though
Near Symington in Ayrshire is ‘Slough of Despond’ that sounds like it should be in a Milton poem.
It might not be in a Milton poem, but it does get mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song.
Near Symington in Ayrshire is ‘Slough of Despond’ that sounds like it should be in a Milton poem.
Range of the Awful hand leads to Murder Hole in Galloway - but surely they should be in NW USA?
In the same courtyard 🙂
As I said, small world! In the corner next to the Bothy then? We'll at least have nodded to each other ......
How about a whole country in the wrong place?
Suriname
Should defo be in SE Asia rather than S America !?!
Dewsbury – should be a genteel town in Surrey
Dewsbury should be as far away from anywhere as possible. Same with Bradford.
confused at Gibraltar Point near Grimsby
Well that would be confusing. It's not near Grimsby. It is near Skegness.
But continuing with the theme... there's a small town (~1000 people) in Central Queensland, about 10 hours drive from Brisbane. It has an entertainment centre that seems to get fairly decent acts, and a water park. The kind of infrastructure you wouldn't expect outside a decent sized regional town. The nearest 'big' town is Emerald about 50km south and ~15-20,000 people. According to the locals the buildings were supposed to have been constructed in the Brisbane suburb of Capalaba... Hmmmm...
Legend has it that in the mid-19th century the Tasmanian town of Launceston erected an ornate Parisian fountain in Prince's Square after it arrived there by mistake having been sent to Launceston, Cornwall. Hmmmm....
Also Pennsylvania should be in America not Wiltshire.
It is, it gets its name from William Penn. The one in South Gloucestershire gets its name in a similar way, the first part, Penn, could be from Brythonic for hill, or a personal name, the second part, Sylvania is Latin for forest. As does the one in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%2C_Gloucestershire.
So many places in America take their names from English colonists, there’s quite a few places called Bristol in the Eastern states, appropriate because it was an explorer from Bristol who was the first modern European to ‘discover’ the place. John Cabot landed in the ‘Matthew’, I think in Newfoundland, knowing it was there, because of listening to Bristol fishermen who would put in to land to replenish water and food after fishing off the Grand Banks.
The Vikings, of course, beat him to it, exactly 1000 years ago this year. Sadly, they didn’t leave any interesting place names behind.
Columbus, of course, never set foot on mainland America.
There’s a hamlet on the way to Castle Combe called Tiddleywink, and not far from Lyneham there’s New Zealand.
but it does get mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song.
What doesn’t?
Whitby. Ellesmere Port. Topical hydrogen reference!
Todmorden, say it slowly and it's sounds Tolkeinesque
New York in North Tyneside
Egypt is really in Buckinghamshire between Slough and Beaconsfield.
Pontefract should be in Wales, not Yorkshire. Ashby De La Zouch should be somewhere on the French Riviera, and Goosnargh should be on Mars instead of just outside Preston.
Shouldn't Robin Hood's Bay be further south somewhere near Sherwood Forest?
Pontefract should be in Wales, not Scotland
Eh?