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The Harlow thread got me thinking. It's not the idea of using a town as a name that I don't like, it's that it's the same two towns used. Harlow and Camden!

I'm going to start with Kinvara, a place in Galway. I think that'd make a nice name.

Anybody else?

Lincoln for a boy, maybe? Wouldn't use it personally as I live in Lincoln but I think it's an ok name.

Thong

I know someone called Lincoln, he lived 10 miles away from Lincoln.

How about Mavis Enderby?

no unless you like ridge as name

Stockport. Catchy, eh?!

Or maybe Manchester (Mani for short).

not farfrom me are pratts bottom and badgers mount, i dont mind if you want to use one of these, they are not quite top of my list if i have another baby!

Royston Vasey

Nice double barrelled name

Well, inspired by placenames near us, I have named my children: Chelmsley, Tipton and Nechells. Tasteful, non?

My uncle used to tell a story about he and a friend being drunk on a train while serving in the RAF. The guard wanted to take down their names so they gave the names of place near where they lived. One was Aston Clinton and the other was Weston Turville.

Spotting new ones has turned into a hobby of mine for long journeys. I like Thornton Curtis, and Mavis Enderby is inspired.

Janeite- those where my choices after Kingstanding, bromford and westbrom

Isn't Charley Boorman's daughter called Kinvara?

I know of a girl called Kendal and another one called Dresden.

Westbrom - gorgeous; now, why didn't I think of that?

I used to have pet rats called Tipton and Dudley!

we have Newton Regis & Clifton Campville....

That motorcycle guy? REally, I didn't know that.

9 points to him for not calling her Harlow!

I am going to put another one out there; Arklow, and for a boy, Wicklow. That's important. Wouldn't work the other way round.

I like Finchley for a boy, and Muswell for a girl. Oh I feel nostaglic now.

I'm not Gwen Stefani btw, looking for inspiration for #3

Bonnyrig? Bathgate? Drem? Haddington?

You know, reading through this thread, I'm not sure you're going to get much help here...

I couldn't belieeeeve she didn't call kingston's brother Richmond. It seemed the obvious sibling name to me.

villages not DCs, that is...!

Or Boothyby Graffoe - after the comedian and the village.

You may want to avoid the name of the village I grew up in. It's called Pity Me.....

How about Camden?

Graffoe is interesting and not awful!

There's a town in Perthshire called Dull...

Barcode, are you near Livingston, I presume?

Fankerton - has quite a ring about it actually
Innish Boffin - would have to succeed at school then..or just have large forehead

A town called Pity Me? Really! You don't live there any more!

Wylye is a village near her and I always thought it would make a good if different name

I'm in Embra, Dora.

Pilton would be a good name or maybe Wester Hailes...

I live near Leonard Stanley...

Ordsall
Dumplington

Wyre Piddle

Leonard Stanley sounds very distinguished! He sounds like a nobel prize winner. It's a place name?

Not near me but my favourite place name - Clench Warton (one word usually but seperated for name purposes)

I used to know a girl called Dallas

barcode, that's barry..

Leith..
Bilston Glen (poss country singer)
Fintry

yep

in Glocs

next to King's Stanley

Viewforth. Sounds positively Dickensian. Or how about Trinity?

Salome

Lewknor

Ruyton XI Towns

village near home village called diggle
always raises a laugh a la dirk diggler!

Someone started a thread on here wanting to call their DD Camberley-I hope they didn't!

<<<<<decides neither Ratoath nor Curragha would make good names for a newborn>>>

how about Glen Livet, Glen Morrangie or Glen Fiddich.

th old name for here is Isca- thought that would make a decent, if poncetastic, name

Hope
Clayton
Holme?
Moss!
Taylor
Emley (although would lead to a life time of confusion with Emily)
Shelley
Marsden
Bretton
Calder

Compo by your nn and name sugguestion, i suspect you live quite near me.

My pil live in Wormit. Fine name for a chap don't you think?

Ruyton XI towns, i'll raise you a
Knockin' Heath!

Harpley is a little village near me, i think it would make a lovely name

Brixton
Bromley
Kenning (from Kennington)

not
Canada Water
Elephant & Castle
Waterloo
Catford Bus Garage

i used to know a chap called Boston....poor guy!!!

Cockermouth :D

Although there's a village nearby called Tallentire, which would be a great name for a boy.

Tollerpocorum

4callingbirds

how about Ering or Anmer then

Any takers for Grimsargh?

Westward Ho!
Has that great British gung ho-ness about it!

PMSL at Catford Bus Garage.

Nempnet Thrubwell

Temple Cloud

Bradley Stoke and Stoke Bishop (twins?)

lewes - oh that already is a name!

dicker

hooe

Warwick?

Minskip?

Pannal?

Clifton Campville- you're my near neighbour!

Leicestershire has done it the other way round. Villages around here are called Kirby, Moira, Heather, not to mention Le(cei)ster, and Charley.

Dingle

Ecclefechan?

pratts bottom

Apparently someone recently changed the signpost that says "To Mavis Enderby and Old Bolingbroke" by adding the words "the gift of a son".

Crapstone
Budleigh Salterton would make a fine double barrelled name.

<<waves at geordieminx and runs away because people from ecclefechan are hard>>

I think Digbeth or Olton sound quite distinguished for a boy.

I don't think Moseley would go down too well!

Tyseley sounds quite kevvy.

Sheldon is already in use anyway.

Years ago I went through Royston and thought it made a nice name (I fancied a boy named Roy at the time). I wouldn't give that to a child now though .

This names would be good if your surname was Wallop(s): Upper, Middle and Nether (Hampshire).

Slough?

Nothing nice sounding around here... Windsor for a boy?

The signpost just outside Brandy Wharf has been messed with to read Randy Dwarf

How about Legsby for a girl.
Willingham for a boy.

ansty

I live near to a place called Rudyard. Kipling's parents named him after the place apparently.

I have a Wetwang near me

I used to live near Wetwang WT,when I was a child.

<memories of shivering blue-skinned on Filey beach>

there is a village near to my parents house (where I grew up) called Bethany

I love that name

hmmm thinking here

Peckham (hammy for short)
Brixton (ton for short)
Camberwell (Cam for short)
Elephant and Castle (Elle or Cas for short so for a girl)
Kennington (kenny for short)

My favourite place name near here is Farleigh Wallop but I am not sure that makes a good name (for a boy obviously - can't see it as a girl's name at all)

I knew a Warwick and an Essex - not sure about calling a child after a whole county though.

But my favourite poncetastic girl's name has to be Giverny - Monet's garden. I would have seriously considered it, had I had a girl but DH just laughed!

sorry for my rather funny immature posting i am in a silly happy mood

Cholmondeley

pronounced "Chumley"

lovely.

Carlton Colville .

Royston Vaysey is Chubby Brown's real name.

How about after a street "Slut Well Lane"?

x

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Bikerunski - I think by your suggestions that you live very near me! Have you name changed and I know you

Ben Nevis? or Bonnie and Clyde for twins?

Blounce

Compo I name changed about 6 months ago. I used to be my initials, using my maiden name. DO you know me in real life?

six mile bottom

My middle name is a place in Jamaica where my dad used to live. Liquanae, I think I might be unique.

I used to live in Hope - geographically and metaphorically.

Think it was me who asked if I knew you Bikerunski It was the Shelley/Emley/Bretton suggestons that made me think you were in my very close neck of the woods Not that we have ever met in real life just wondered if you were a MN I chatted to with a new name!!

Oh Yesm FatZak, I remember you. And yes. You are very close to me - but I don;t think your village name would make a good baby name!

No you're right there (the F village I gather you mean!!)
Neither would Middlestown whose original name was Shitstown Nor Penistone I guess especially when pronounced Penis-tone as many people do!

Uttoxetor

You're not trying to do a Posh and Becks are you?

One of my top boys names is a city, I love it (as a name and the place) but the only problem is I went to the University of "city" so it might be a bit too weird...

Hartley Wintney
Yateley
Camberley
and maybe Hurst

rustybear! thanks for your message on the new look mumsnet. couldn't log in to reply for some reason.
anyway, hi!

Think you will have to log in with the name you were using at the time they 'borrowed' the test pages from (sometime in September iirc)
But it's only a test anyway, they may pull them any time.

<<Tries to remember what the message was - I posted a lot of crap random stuff on those pages...>>

don't worry, you just said hello.

Oh yes, just found it - it was your pathetic attempt at a flounce thread, wasn't it?

Hi have met a couple of Kinvaras.

Pontybodkin
Mold
Muchalls
Torphichen (torfichen -where the ch is pronounced as in loch)
Dechmont
Moodiesburn

i don't remember. but i'm still here!
was it the GO ON MAKE ME FLOUNCE, or the IS IT BEST TO GO COLD TURKEY one?
both threads destined for mumsnet classics i'm sure.

The cold turkey one, where you were going to stay away till the end of the month (from the 11th) and managed 4 days.

Mind you, I call it pathetic, but I'd be pushed to go 4 hours....

you're right it was fairly pathetic.
i did manage a whole week recently though, but only because our computer died. RIP.

am going to attempt to sleep again.
wish me luck.

Good luck - I must go to bed too.

Melton Ross

Barnby Dunn

Thornton Curtis

Fatzak, I didn't know that about Middlestown!

Markyate near where I live now. Denby and Dale for where I grew up.

Am tempted to cast my net a bit wider - my Dad lives in a part of Worcestershire where they seem to specialise in daft place names. Anyone fancy calling their PFB Lickey End? Or Timberhonger?

Shitterton

We used one for ds, Chilton (although we are now in Oz, faaaaaaaaaar awaaaaaaaaaaay from The Chilterns ). It's just a bit more 'exotic' than the related names Clifton and Clinton. His friends call him Chilt which sounds very cool rolled off the local tongue .

rofl @ Shitterton

If rude names are allowed, I vote for Penistone. Or Wombwell.

my partner likes Northumberland for a boy

Saxmundham
Friston
Kelsale
Snape

I once worked with a lady called Bristol!

Mears Ashby is quite a distinguished gent

or Earls Barton

Or more full names
Burgess Park
or
Brent Cross

Mavis Enderby
Ashby Puerorum

lol compo - its near(ish) to me too!

Jesmond and Jarrow for twins born in Tyneside!

Leighton Buzzard

Can't believe no one has mentioned

Ramsbottom.

It wont let me onto page 6!

Walton? Hersham? Molesey? Sunbury? Addlestone? Hythe? Rose Hill?

Oh Ok I was the start of page 6 thats why!!!!!!! duh

Manningford Bruce

Village near us called Amberley. Lovely for a girl.

Woodbridge.

Wycombe, Henley or Marlow - all sound like plausible pony-set names to me.

Barlow
Baslow
Rowsley
Darley
Endsor
Eyam (actually, avoid like the plague ha ha)
Riber
Farley
Walton
Winster
Heath
Calver

The only village names that could possibly pass for names round my way.

Charlton Marshall sounds good

Not sure about Clapgate though

Horton or Holt aren't too bad, could imagine someone shouting those names in Tesco or at the park

staines

Primrose I know someone who has just named their ds Farley..... wondered where they ad dreamed that up from!

Village near my dads called Mavis Enderby!

Thornton le Beans

Very distinguished!

Oh, and Sexhow.....

Not so distinguished, but I have another - Hutton Rudby (I like), sounds a little Edwardian Novel.

Possibly avoid the villages of Six Mile Bottom and Ugely. Although I have always entertained ambitions of being Chair of the Six Mile Bottom WI, or Ugely WI. My great aunt by marriage was Chair of the Loos WI, which is even better.

Illketshall (pronounced ilkershawl)
Linstead
Huntingfield

Argyll
Carrick
Clachan
Blairmore
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Might work if you are in Italy; Florence, Venice, Verona, Vittoria, Milan, Roma?

but up here we have got Lower Peover, Shakerley Mere, Runcorn and Ellesmere Port.

The only usable name I can think of local to us is Chester, but it's a bit medallion man.

We have a family name of D'amery and Perdu - both places in France where my Grans family are from.

anonandlikeit and goober you must be near me!!

Pusey?

Bray
Brightwell
Bisham

Donnington
Clewer

Shurlock Row!
Sutton Courtenay!

Uras? Or slightly less likely to end in tears in the playground, Benholm.

Dalston?

Could be a Prince Charming type, no?

Lottiejenkins
Where are you?

Laxfield..............

Is that near Halesworth/ Blythborough??

between stradbroke and halesworth.

It always gladdens my heart when I drive past the signpost to 'Findo Gask'.

(On the road to Perth)

You are very close then LJ, I am in Wickham Market.

Claverton, ( Claverton Downs, near Bath), Clifton ( Bristol),Bexley ( Bexley Heath, South London) for boys maybe?

I live near Wetwang

which may make a nice name for someone

There's a Pink Green not far from me..

Our village is called Kinver

Thornaby

If you live near Bromley, Pratt, after Pratts Bottom.

I know WM Goober........my late father had work connections in Easton!!

Findo Gask.

We used to drive past the road sign for it when visiting my auntie and I always wanted to live there just so I could tell people where I was from.

TwoIf - I've never been there but I believe Findo and Gask are actually two places close together. Still gladdens my heart to see the sign.

Are they? Well Findo on its own I suppose, but then that is a bit too near Findus in pronounciation!

My village makes a lovely girls' name (alt. spelling).

Lots of bottoms round here too.

there is a place we pass on way to york called askem richard and askem bryan mmmmmmm.places near me that would make great names barnsley,rothwell,morley,tingley,pretty boring really to some on here ..

Devon
Kent
Mallard
Marlow
Erigall
Clifden
Mead
Oran
Earl
Aspen

We live fairly near a place called Titsey

I've driven through Findo Gask.

Lets see villages near me Stanley obviously already a name, Meigle, Muthill pronounced Mew-th-ill, Waterloo, Redgorton, Caputh pronounced cay-pu-th.

How about "Brodie" (it's in Moray in the Highlands of Scotland)and it's a small village next to a castle of the same name....

laughing at prospect of calling my next baby Cockermouth, Egremont or Barrow in Furness!

My current faves is Helion's Bumpstead and Shingay-cum-Wendy

Oops - faves are