WETWANG - and other ridiculous places names

[PastaAllaNorma]

We're driving to the Yorkshire coast and will shortly pass through th village of Wetwang. Since the children were tiny we all yell Wetwang!!! in the car as we spot the sign. They are adults now but I still do it even on my own.

Penistone was declared imaginary by a visiting American friend, so if we pass that way we always say "You cannot be serious" just the way she did.

Anyone else have daft family ritual/habits on a road trip?

I grew up very near Sherburn and it had never felt like an odd name because that was just the name of the nearest town 🤣

’Cocks’ which is quite near to where I live now on the other hand….

Broadwoodwidger in Devon always makes me smirk when I see it on signs.

Horsey Windpump in Norfolk.
There’s a Crotch Crescent in Oxford.

I believe there’s a Hell in Scandinavia somewhere. I got a postcard from Hell once. There’s also a Mountain called Wank in Germany.

I pass signs for Barwick in Elmet on my way to the swimming wand start humming The Archer's theme each time.

(The theme is Barwick Green)

Not read all the thread but Dull in Scotland with its appropriate twin in US

As a child I always giggled when we drove through Six Mile Bottom 😂

@NortyTorty Each syllable has to be pronounced very precisely too - "Sher-Burn-In-El-Met" El Met as in El Cid......😜

Wait.... Somewhere else is 'In Elmet'? Great news! 😁

Not rude, but we always found Towcester hilarious as kids.

Not to derail, but I always chuckle every time I see a Land Rover, because of a very old episode of Simon Mayo's Confessions. The local vicar owned such a vehicle, but somebody swapped the badge on the back for one (in the exact same style) saying Randy Lover - and months went by before he noticed it

There's a lane on the way to my late parents in law called Deep sick - near Chesterfield. Id love to know how they came up with that name!

Years ago I saw the name Portwrinkle on the map and we simply had to go there. To get to Portwrinkle we had to go down Finneygook Lane and I was beside myself with mirth and joy!

I regularly drive past Great Coxwell and giggle every time!

The PP who mentioned the Ham Sandwich sign will be aware of the sign on the Ash bypass pointing to Each End, which always pleases me.

Any old TOGs on here may remember Terry Wogan's Radio 2 breakfast show, where he frequently received emails from the old theatrical impresario 'Chuffer Dandridge'.

Every time they mentioned somewhere like Nempnett Thrubwell in the travel news, Chuffer would always email in and enthuse about how glad he was to hear them mention his old pal of that name!!

Also, any time somebody mentions Tintern Abbey, we are duty-bound to channel Terry by instinctively insisting "T'is!!"

The late Richard Whitely of Countdown fame was the (self-appointed) mayor of Wetwang.

I once lived near this place in Austria. None of the locals could understand why on earth I found it funny - even the ones who spoke perfect English!

Tintern Abbey. T'is! Makes me laugh every time.

Pratts bottom in Kent. 🤣

I’ve driven through Intercourse in Pennsylvania with friends who lived in Philadelphia and then Wilmington (Delaware).

We quite often drive back through Shitterton when coming back from holiday. When I was a child I always used to get the giggles when I saw the road signs for Piddletrenthide and Puddletown, I always thought they sounded like everyone had wet knickers there.

Shitterton in Dorset

I like "Broadwoodwidger", "Mavis Enderby" and "Wotter".

Oh and " Splatford Split".

Six Mile Bottom, Cowpen, Liitle and Great Snoring.

I always think of Glenn Close when we drive by Glen Close in York.