What are your favourite place names in the UK...

[TheTecknician]

...regardless of your feelings about the settlements themselves? I haven't been to any of the following but they have a definite appeal:

Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Barton In The Beans
Bourton-on-the-Water - it sounds frightfully English

My favourite is Tring.

Wibbly Wobbly Lane in Luton always cheers me up.

snodland- makes me think about gnomes or elves.... or snods

Scotland is always hard to beat for this.

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Inner Ting Tong Lane on the IOW

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

I love that this is an actual village.

Crotch Crescent

Wales has some great place names including the above. I live in a tiny welsh town which is also difficult too pronounce for most but nowhere near as long as the above.

Brown willy, because I have a brown willy (I’m own brown, it isn’t a hygiene issue!).

A friend lives next to butt hole lane, which again my inner 12 year old enjoys:

Mavis Enderby

Penistone. We always pronounce it as 'penis town'.
I love rhyming couplets (Haceby and Raceby for example) and other names that come in pairs: Six mile bottom and ten mile bottom.
Biggleswade is another great sounding place.

Blandford Forum makes me think of a boring discussion.

There's also a village called 'The Shoe' near Bath.

Simonjt · Today 20:46

Brown willy, because I have a brown willy (I’m own brown, it isn’t a hygiene issue!).

Thank you for clarifying!

I'll go with Bell o' th' Hill. Simply because it has apostrophes in it

I'll offer you Irlam o' th' Height to go with it.

My favourite is Sixpenny Handley (Dorset).

Peter's Finger

Blubberhouses
Potto
Spittal

You beat me to it.

Penistone
Blubberhouses
Wetwang

I quite like the street name Land of Green Ginger in Hull too.

OP I worked in Bourton-on-the-Water for a while. It was a really lovely village but absolutely heaving with tourists in the summer. But yes, it is very quaint English.

Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate in York

Tiddlywinks in Wiltshire
Rhyme Intrinsica
Knook

@Inheritanceconundrum i live a few miles from The Shoe!

Most Non Scots won't really know how these are pronounced so will not get their real beauty

Auchenshuggle

Auchtermuchty

Milngavie

Ecclefechan

Kirkcudbright

Ae

Culross

Fruechie

Chatelherault

Garioch

As a Leicestershire resident, I’m going to defend Ashby. It’s actually a perfectly nice market town with lots of quirky independent shops, and it even has an M&S these days, too.

We do have some cracking village names round here, though:
Newtown Unthank
Peatling Parva and its sibling Peatling Magna.
Kibworth Harcourt
Newton Burgoland
Isley Walton
Sheepy Magna

I want to live here simply because as I child it fascinated me each time we drove by

St Ippolyts (just outside Hitchin, Herts)

Giggleswick and Wigglesworth. Both in Yorkshire