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Any towns or villages near you that would make a nice name?

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LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:20

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?

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BikeRunSki · 22/12/2008 10:11

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.

PeachyBidsYouNadoligLlawen · 21/12/2008 22:30

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

twoboots · 21/12/2008 22:28

how about Glen Livet, Glen Morrangie or Glen Fiddich.

VisionsOfSugarPlums · 21/12/2008 22:26
piscesmoon · 21/12/2008 22:23

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

minouminou · 21/12/2008 22:20

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

PortlySackSantaInAdvent · 21/12/2008 22:07

Ruyton XI Towns

MrsBadger · 21/12/2008 22:06

Salome

Lewknor

BarcodeTheRedNosedZebra · 21/12/2008 22:04

Viewforth. Sounds positively Dickensian. Or how about Trinity?

MrsBadger · 21/12/2008 22:03

yep

in Glocs

next to King's Stanley

AuraofDora · 21/12/2008 22:02

barcode, that's barry..

Leith..
Bilston Glen (poss country singer)
Fintry

Boysboysboys · 21/12/2008 22:01

I used to know a girl called Dallas

NCRedBreastedBirdy · 21/12/2008 21:56

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

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LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:53

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

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slayerette · 21/12/2008 21:51

Wyre Piddle

maretta · 21/12/2008 21:51

Ordsall
Dumplington

MrsBadger · 21/12/2008 21:50

I live near Leonard Stanley...

BarcodeTheRedNosedZebra · 21/12/2008 21:50

I'm in Embra, Dora.

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

milfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo · 21/12/2008 21:49

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

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LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:49

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

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AuraofDora · 21/12/2008 21:49

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

BarcodeTheRedNosedZebra · 21/12/2008 21:49

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

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LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:48

Graffoe is interesting and not awful!

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StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 21/12/2008 21:46

How about Camden?

muggglewump · 21/12/2008 21:46

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