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

214 replies

TheTecknician · 23/11/2023 19:32

...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.

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PurpleChrayne · 23/11/2023 23:01

Little Bongs in Liverpool.

Apparently there was also a Big Bongs at one point.

Unprecedentedusername · 23/11/2023 23:02

Beaten to Wetwang!

Fanny Hands Lane, Market Rasen
Dick Lane, Bradford

apologies if I’ve lowered the tone

PotOfViolas · 23/11/2023 23:02

Pratts Bottom and Brown Willy

Frazzledandfried · 23/11/2023 23:03

Woolfardisworthy (pronounced woolsery, obvs!)

Woahbodyforrrrm · 23/11/2023 23:03

Upper Ting Tong in Devon tickles me 😂

MirandaBlu · 23/11/2023 23:07

Far from the oddest, but I remember thinking Cockfosters and Maidenhead were hilarious on a pre-teen visit to England.

Bearsden, Castlemilk, and Auchenshuggle (all Glasgow) always make me smile.

GasDrivenNun · 23/11/2023 23:08

Six Mile Bottom

TessLAA · 23/11/2023 23:09

Thwing

Justrolledmyeyesoutloud · 23/11/2023 23:11

Ugley & Steeple Bumpstead

Crikeyalmighty · 23/11/2023 23:12

@Thisismy3rdusername I was coming on to say that- really tickles me!!

PickAChew · 23/11/2023 23:14

Mumteedum · 23/11/2023 19:41

Two Ball Lonnen

Pity Me

Spittle Tongues

No Place

Was going to add these, though it's Spital Tongues. Let's add Dumpling Hall and High Handenhold (very near No Place) to the Northeast place names.

Will also add Thorngumbald as my family are from near there and it's just so satisfying to say.

maximist · 23/11/2023 23:15

DisplayPurposesOnly · 23/11/2023 20:52

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).

And Besses'o'th'Barn

Once Brewed and Twice Brewed are great place names.

Tallisker · 23/11/2023 23:17

Booze
Crackpot (both Swaledale/arkengarthdale

Cuddy Lonnin, lane in Wigton

PickAChew · 23/11/2023 23:18

Newtonianmechanics · 23/11/2023 20:11

Open Wide

We have Wideopen in the NE.

DahliaMacNamara · 23/11/2023 23:19

Wyre Piddle makes me smile every time I see the sign. I'm also fond of Ram Alley.

MoonlightMedicine · 23/11/2023 23:19

Souldrop

Teaseall · 23/11/2023 23:26

Tutts Clump in Berkshire and I've always been fond of Toaster

Yellowcakestand · 23/11/2023 23:33

MurielThrockmorton · 23/11/2023 19:41

Broadwoodwidger

This is also mine. Every holiday to Cornwall I look for the sign on the A30

Yellowcakestand · 23/11/2023 23:33

I also think Petty France is cute

Goodornot · 23/11/2023 23:38

All of these

What are your favourite place names in the UK...
GasDrivenNun · 23/11/2023 23:41

Snitter

ODFOx · 23/11/2023 23:50

Pinkmagic1 · 23/11/2023 20:23

Titty Ho. The name of a Road in Wellingborough, and also home to the Titty Ho Motor Company.

It's Raunds I think. Not Wellingborough. But still Titty Ho ! 😀

ODFOx · 23/11/2023 23:53

There's a village between Leicester and Loughborough called Copt Oak. I've never been but what a lovely name!

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 24/11/2023 00:11

Both in Nottinghamshire:
Burton Joyce - sound like a lovely old couple;
Gotham - sadly pronounced Goat-uhm, not like its more famous fictional namesake!

Peter's Finger

If you're referring to the tiny little road of that name in Worcestershire, it's not that far at all from Clegg's Entry!

A nearby posh village also has Twatling Road (annoyingly pronounced Twott-ling) and Mearse Lane (pronounced to rhyme with purse, but I always read it 'properly' as Jim Royle would say it!)

All of them not far from Wyre Piddle, as we've already had (obligatory on these threads!), but there's also a very nearby place known as Piddle In The Hole (sadly, I don't think it's big enough to have any signs - although they'd constantly get nicked, if it did).

Talking of frequently nicked signs, there's nothing funny about Ham or Sandwich individually, but both together - fabulous!

Shilbottle (not funny in itself but what's funny is the person who changes it to Shitbottle constantly.)

See also Dogpool Lane in Birmingham (the 'l' is constantly painted over) and Penny Hill Lane in Lincolnshire - with the 'P' changed to a 'B'!

I also notice that, whilst it's common for town/city names to be abbreviated on road markings to the first few letters and the last - such as Nott'm, Card'f or Manc'r - I notice that, for some reason, the council in East Sussex didn't do the same for Wannock!

I'd have to add Loughborough - mainly because it's so confusing to tourists, but also because of both the wonderful 'alternative' rendering of 'Looger-brooger' and also Dave Gorman's comments on there being a 'low-brow' university there!

Another one here who assumed that Surbiton was made up for The Good Life, as a kind of generic suburban equivalent of 'Anytown'.