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Places with 'interesting' names.

187 replies

lightlypoached · 19/02/2023 18:00

I've just driven past Nork village 😂

What's your favourite place name ?

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Bawdrip · 19/02/2023 20:46

Bawdrip!

ThreeLeggedCat · 19/02/2023 20:46

Man Fuk Road in Hong Kong.

I also live not too far from Cocking.

portocristo · 19/02/2023 20:51

Severed leg lane 😮

YouSoundLovely · 19/02/2023 20:52

Fucking, in Austria. They make a beer called Fucking Hell.

ShillyShallySherbet · 19/02/2023 20:53

Crapstone in Devon

Cantchooseaname · 19/02/2023 21:01

Grew up near cockermouth, which is below the fells of little cock up and great cock up.
There is twatling road in the Lickey Hills near Birmingham.
In New Zealand we visited Prosser’s Bush when we were on our honeymoon.

lbnblbnb · 19/02/2023 21:04

Booze in Arkengarthdale, off Swaledale.

Mumteedum · 19/02/2023 21:05

Two ball lonnen, Newcastle

RenoDakota · 19/02/2023 21:09

Slack Bottom, just outside Hebden Bridge.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 19/02/2023 21:11

Not far from me: Minge Lane (in-laws used to live there), Wyre Piddle & North Piddle, Bell End, Cockshot Road.

Also not far from a village with thoroughfares called Mearse Lane (say it the way Ricky Tomlinson would) and Twatling Road.

bringincrazyback · 19/02/2023 21:14

Barton-in-the-Beans in Leicestershire.

newtb · 19/02/2023 21:16

Lower Peover in Cheshire - pronounced peever.

PoppyEyebright · 19/02/2023 21:17

Some of these local to us

Jackass Lane
Whiteknobs Way
Badgers Mount

romdowa · 19/02/2023 21:18

There's whorestown and bastardstown in co wexford in Ireland. There's also ballsbridge in Dublin I believe. Ireland has loads of hilarious places names

NotMyDayJob · 19/02/2023 21:19

Came on to say Ugley in Essex, but someone beat me to it.

Drive past Fanny Hands Lane in Lincs once on the way to Butlins 🤣

TribeD · 19/02/2023 21:27

Cock Lane which is off Nob Hill, in Norton Juxta, Tywcross.

Mrs Cox did not buy the house...

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 19/02/2023 21:29

Mythril · 19/02/2023 18:27

Blubberhouses.

Upperthong and neighbouring Netherthong.

All in Yorkshire.

Also Thongsbridge, which 1- sounds like an uncomfortable kind of knicker twists 2- is just down the road , all the Thongs always make me smirk, even after 20 years.

Carsick Hill is Sheffield is rather twisty!

Fryup and Great Fryup Dale in the Yorkshire Dales,

Urine in France, near Morzine.

Wales, near Sheffield, confused some Icelandic football fans during the Euros a few years ago, and DD once went to a party where half the guests did turn up, their sat navs having confused "Jump! Barnsley" (name of trampoline place) with "Jump, Barnsley" (name of a village near Barnsley).

Whichwhatnow · 19/02/2023 21:36

There's loads. My personal favourite is Hel in Poland. Mainly because the bus service is always a 666

reddingweddy · 19/02/2023 21:40

There is a Needless Road near me

bringincrazyback · 19/02/2023 21:48

Also, I've always thought Pease Pottage Services in Sussex(?) sounded quaint. They're not. 😄

bringincrazyback · 19/02/2023 21:49

Whichwhatnow · 19/02/2023 21:36

There's loads. My personal favourite is Hel in Poland. Mainly because the bus service is always a 666

That's classic! 😂

mrswhiplington · 19/02/2023 22:24

Lumbutts and Mankinholes in Yorkshire.

Trinity65 · 19/02/2023 22:26

Pratts Bottom
Pigties Lane

OzziePopPop · 19/02/2023 22:28

Dogballs in Cornwall, couldn’t believe it was a real place until my ex took me there and I saw the sign!

OzziePopPop · 19/02/2023 22:29

A nicer one, we used to live on Pudding Pie Lane, such a lovely address!