Places with 'interesting' names.

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I've just driven past Nork village 😂

What's your favourite place name ?

We had a whole Mumsnet Meaning of Liff thread once; The MN meaning of Liff www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1213164-The-MN-meaning-of-Liff

Furzefield and Furzton, which mean "fart field" and "farting sound" in German respectively.

Penistone?

Semicock road. Ballymoney.

Dobwalls! Not Dogballs 😂

We do however have Water-Ma-Trout industrial estate in Helston, which has always tickled me. And Cocks, near Perranporth. Praze-an-Beeble.

Lyminge in Kent (pronounced, rather Frenchly, as Le Minge)

Fanjeax in France, nearish Carcassone way. I have a photo of me next to the sign!

Peñiscola in Spain, just up the coast from Valencia.

Is Gropecunt Lane still called that in Norwich?

Slap Bottom in the New Forest

Goonhusband in Cornwall
Bully Hole Bottom near Chepstow

Buckler’s Hard in The New Forest.
Loose in Kent which has the Loose Women’s Institute.

There's a Fingeringhoe in Essex .

@dubyalass. Dobwalls! Not Dogballs 😂

We do however have Water-Ma-Trout industrial estate in Helston, which has always tickled me. And Cocks, near Perranporth. Praze-an-Beeble.

Don't forget Ventongimps!

Slutshole Lane
Great/Little snoring
Catsbottom
Ten mile bottom.

All norfolk/cambs

I came on to say Tiddlywink is near me but was beaten to it. A nearby village is The Shoe, which always amuses me.

Tough. It has a school too.

Condom, also in France

Nempnett Thrubwell. A real place in Somerset, and immortalised in song by The Wurzels.

Come by Chance (NSW): A settler won this parcel of land in a sort of lottery, so that's how it came by its name. It's now a small town.

Woolloomooloo (NSW) is a Sydney suburb derived from an indigenous word meaning 'young male kangaroo'.

Wangi Wangi (NSW): another indigenous term meaning 'by the waters'. The town is by a lake.

Burrumbuttock (NSW): yet another indigenous name meaning 'bullock's backbone'.
Bungle Bungles (NT): This is a beautiful National Park in WA. It sounds like it's derived from indigenous language, but consensus seems to be it actually refers to clumps of grass (bundles). The indigenous word for the landforms in the park is quite different.

Can you tell I adore words and their etymology?

There’s scratchy bottom in Dorset and nob end in Bolton.

"It's not rude but Paradise, just outside Stroud always amused me."

In Northern Ireland we have an Edenordinary.

Not as funny as some of these, but Bat and Ball (Kent) always seemed like a ridiculous place name. As does Pratt’s Bottom. Green Street Green just sounds like somebody got distracted halfway through naming it.

We regularly go past Lady Gardens in Eardisley on our way to pick DD up from uni.

I’m always mildly amused by Burlingjobb, Evenjobb and Abbey-cwm-hir too.

I’ve always loved saying « Abitibi-Témiscamingue »

Ernest Wank. (Main road) - Melbourne Australia

Tongue in northern Scotland.

The village shop sells stickers bearing the legend ' I ❤️ Tongue'

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