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British place names that would sound good as first names

109 replies

FrancisdeSales · 26/01/2016 23:04

Just musing... What about

Exeter
Cumbria
Lewisham (!!)

Any takers?

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FellOutOfBedTwice · 26/01/2016 23:08

Eccles
Salford (Sal for short?) ?!?!!

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LonerDave · 26/01/2016 23:09

Ascot
Windsor
Clapham!?!
Hampstead - yea I like that one

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NationMcKinley · 26/01/2016 23:09

Croydon?
Maybe avoid Pratts Bottom and Staines Wink

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MaliaGrace · 26/01/2016 23:10

Preston - it's already used.

Bromley

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allegretto · 26/01/2016 23:13

Brad - short for Bradford

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TheTartOfAsgard · 26/01/2016 23:13

Canning (town)
Brentford
Erith
Thurrock
Havering

All sound like characters from some teen american TV program

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MyFavouriteClintonisGeorge · 26/01/2016 23:14

Kirby
Corby
Mavis Enderby
Hereford
Jura
Tresco
Walden
Alnick
Syon
Pembroke

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Hedgehogsdontbite · 26/01/2016 23:15

Keswick
Warwick

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Hastagwhatever · 26/01/2016 23:15

Camden
Camber
Harwich

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SaveSomeSpendSome · 26/01/2016 23:16

Devon
Kendal
Preston

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foragogo · 26/01/2016 23:17

Bromley

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Hedgehogsdontbite · 26/01/2016 23:17

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Fangs4themammaries · 26/01/2016 23:21

Pateley
Linby
Sutton
York (I know one)
Eaton
Harden
Kendal
Keswick
Lincoln

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hellhasnofurylikeahungrywoman · 26/01/2016 23:21

Three Holes?

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Hedgehogsdontbite · 26/01/2016 23:22

Luton could work.

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Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 26/01/2016 23:23

London

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Longdistance · 26/01/2016 23:24

Ely?
Ivor?
Milton
Lewis
Dilton

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SonyaAtTheSamovar · 26/01/2016 23:25

Pudsey!

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CatThiefKeith · 26/01/2016 23:26

Thurrock? Seriously?

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WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 26/01/2016 23:27

Husbands bosworth (hussy)
Towcester
Swaffham
Little snoring
Great snoring (twins...)
Port sunlight
Leatherhead
Mold
Utoxeter
Yardley gobion
Looe
Beere (sp?)
Bangor

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slightlyglitterbrained · 26/01/2016 23:28

I'd go for Scottish islands: Skye, Iona, etc

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Scotland

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CatThiefKeith · 26/01/2016 23:28

Higham
Rochester
Thatcham

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NewLife4Me · 26/01/2016 23:31

Worsley, Walkden and Roe Green

All areas that sounded like first names according to one poster on my thread today Grin

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fuckweasel · 26/01/2016 23:31

Nempnett Thrubwell

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Cerseirys · 26/01/2016 23:31

Tooting Broadway?

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