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.

@ODFOx That’s near me. Copt Oak is a tiny hill-top village, more of a hamlet really. It’s almost the highest point in the county, around 220m above sea level. There are about a dozen houses, a church and a large busy pub restaurant. The most notable thing, however, is an enormous TV & radio transmitter mast which can be seen for miles around. If you drive on the M1 just north of J22 you can’t miss it.

Another frequent victim of sign-doctoring is Lunt in Merseyside.

In an attempt to dissuade them from doing it, the locals petitioned for its official spelling to be amended to Launt (with the 'a' silent, so the same pronunciation) - I don't know if that ever happened, though.

Cross Houses in Shropshire - we always call it 'Angry Bungalows'.

Walsoken in Norfolk, which sounds like it should be a Swedish word meaning extremely drunk ("No, Sven, I will not allow you to drive your Volvo home from the pub tonight - you are already Walsoken!")

All of these are in the North East:

Pity Me

Muggleswick

Snod's Edge

Unthank

Bakethin

Elf Kirk

Mounces Burn

Stoney Heap

Giggleswick

Wetwang

Two Ball Lonnen

Football Hole (local name for the sands at what is officially known as Embleton Bay near Low Newton By The Sea in Northumberland).

Abergwili

Tickle Cock Bridge (another North eastern one)

Shitterton in Dorset (it's located somewhere in the Piddle Valley)

Brown Willy (Bodmin, Cornwall)

Minions (Bodmin, Cornwall)

Have some Cheshire ones and their weird pronunciations

Aston Juxta Mondrum
Cholmondeley (Chumley)
Cholmondeston (Chumston)

Fulking …….in Sussex.

Budge's Shop
Little Comfort

Mousehole

Cocking - always makes me giggle

Blubberhouses

Ramsbottom

Bethlehem

www.thesun.co.uk/travel/24428025/bethlehem-wales-carmarthenshire-christmas/amp/

Westward Ho! Unique, as it’s the only place that has an exclamation mark as part of its name.

Another road name rather than place, butthole lane - shepshed

I was going to mention that one.

A bit further south we have:

Goon Gumpus
Ventongimps

Love these, some of mine have been said already. Would also add:
Much Marcle
Badgers Mount
The Wallops

Were our ancestors drunk? So hilarious.

How would I tell people that I'm moving to somewhere called Pity Me?

Slapton - village in Bucks
Great Horwood; Little Horwood - Bucks
Beer - Devon ==always want to holiday there
RAF Mount Pleasant (actually in the falklands)

I've also always liked
Portmeirion

Yeah I look for the sign too @Yellowcakestand - though I think I originally spotted it on a map when me and my XP were doing exactly this and trying to spot funny places names!

@Libertass you missed Husbands Bosworth!

Six Mile Bottom was always my favourite when I was growing up

Lickey End

Not far from Bell End, of course. They're both very near where my mum lives.

Fulking …….in Sussex.

Near Fulking Hill, in fact. I discovered that on the O/S map we studied in geography. Imagine the delight of a 14-year-old spotting that.

Ohh yes, you're quite right. Thought it didn't look right..tired!

Thorngumbald is great! I don't know that one.

We've also got down here:

Skinners Bottom
Jollys Bottom

And home to an industrial estate, Water-Ma-Trout.

Liking this thread very much.

My vote goes to Finsbury Park.

Why? Because backwards it is Krap Yrubsnif.