Places with 'interesting' names.

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I've just driven past Nork village 😂

What's your favourite place name ?

Fleshhovel Lane. I presume it's to do with butchery in the past. Just leads to the canal marina now.

In Brussels, there's the metro station in French-Flemish : Arts Loi - Kunst Wet

One language pretty funny, but both!

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads
Two of my kids went to Penistone Grammar school when we lived in the area, & our PC at the time refused to let me use the name.. ;-)

Letsby Avenue, home of the South Yorks. police headquarters. Yes, really!

When I was a primary school teacher we were doing a project on garden birds. Guess which one shut down the whole computer system when searched for?

@NotMyDayJob I drove past Fanny Hands Lane on Saturday. Makes me laugh every time!

When I was a primary school teacher we were doing a project on garden birds. Guess which one shut down the whole computer system when searched for?

I heard some time ago about a small drama group who were trying to raise their profile, and they emailed loads of schools offering to perform their production of Dick Whittington free for the children. They were saddened not to be getting replies at all - not even a 'thanks but no thanks' - and it turned out that the emails had never made it through to them in the first place!

I hear that Scunthorpe and Lightwater sometimes have similar issues!

There's a road in Doncaster called Archers Way. Nice and ordinary enough; but pre 2009, it was called something different....

This village sign gets graffittied a lot too.

I hear that Scunthorpe and Lightwater sometimes have similar issues!

I've seen in a couple of forums that Scunthorpe is changed to SFrontBottomthorpe.

Idle - Idle working mens club

Break your neck lane

Google the address of South Yorkshire police operations complex..... most excellent address ever..... you're welcome 😊

Sadly, on occasion I have the comic appreciation of an adolescent boy. I was delighted by the 'Kiek in de kok' museum in Tallinn Estonia.

Heck which is in Yorkshire and ecclefecan in Scotland which always reminds me of Father Ted!

We have Ugley (which has a Women’s Institute), Butt Lane and Shellow Bowells near here.

There's a town in Australia called Black Butt

Not in the UK, but there is a Bald Knob in Arkansas and Truth or Consequences in New Mexico.

Fingringhoe in Essex

@elQuintoConyo there used to be a few grope cunt lanes about but the majority have been changed to Grape lane- I know there is one it York.

The only skiing I've ever done was when we lived in Pennsylvania, on a mountain called Blue Knob.

I love all of these! We always look out for amusing place names on road trips....

Shellow Bowells I see has already been mentioned - when we lived in that part of England it never failed to raise a giggle or three!

I also like -
Kinlet and Nimlet (DH refers to these as the Hiblet Shriblets, lol)
Meole Brace

Now we live in Wales there's a few good ones -
Sketty
Goytre
Tavernspite
Cockett
Coldblow
And my personal favourite -
Dyfatty 😂

Kinlet and Nimlet (DH refers to these as the Hiblet Shriblets, lol)

There's a sign when travelling along the A52 through Lincolnshire directing to the villages of Haceby and Braceby! I always find myself singing their names to the tune of Clodagh Rogers' song 'Come Back And Shake Me' ("Come back and Haceby, Braceby, in your arms!")

The splendidly named Happy Bottom Nature Reserve is quite near me. And I live on the edge of the Piddle Valley, which I forget sounds funny to visitors.

Wyre Piddle - IIRC in Dorset