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'm on a roll now..near us is Yelverton, has to be "YELverton" when driving through ( could it be twinned with Whisperton. Is there a Whisperton?) and Horrabridge, requiring ghostly wailings, creaky door noises and mad dog sounds.

And Badgers Mount. There’s a Ham Shades Close in Sidcup

I live not far from Slack Bottom, West Yorkshire.

Pennycomequick
In Plymouth 😳

Impressive multitasking ability @Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain !
I drove through there too back in 1986 and did a double take at the name

There is a Minge Lane in Worcestershire. I wonder if these types of names have an effect on house prices?

Mogador in Surrey sounds like a cross between a sedative and a Harry Potter character.

This always makes laugh. The people naming the streets must’ve been feeling mischievous.

I regularly drive past ‘Tom Tit Lane’ which always makes me chuckle.

Fingringhoe in Essex

As children we found Wyre Piddle particularly amusing!

According to Bill Bryson’s book Mother Tongue, there used to be a Gropecunt Lane in London!

where i live,halfway between my house and work,is a road called 'unicorn way'

it sounds so magical and id love to live there but its just a piece of scrappy land with no houses on it!

first time i went to wetwang,i called my mother a liar as nowhere could have such a daft name!

Cornwall has some good ones, like the aforementioned Ding Dong. A particular favourite is the village of Greensplat near St Austell. There's also a Scurlage and a Scredda, both of which sound like some kind of livestock affliction. Blunts, Quethiock, Polyphant....many bizarre sounding names.

Probus.

i had a school friend who lived in a village called Lower Willey and they had called their house ‘windy pastures’ I was never sure if it was intentional

Two local ones, Knob Hall Lane and Cockle Dicks Lane.

It sounds revolting.

An ex boyfriend had his vasectomy performed at a clinic there.

There is a village in Surrey called Mogador I always expect the cast of Lord of the Rings to be waiting at the entrance!

I always like this one - in Notts. 🐇

i also live near a Cat and Fiddle Lane which the kids used to enjoy.

Went on a camping trip to the Black Mountains with a bunch of teenage lads on DofE and you would not believe how long they kept the gags going after one of them spotted ‘Lord Herefords Knob’ on the map. That was hours of hilarity.

Ugh. The memories give me the shivers. Anything to help keep plodding on a DofE through those hills.

I will offer up

Hetton le Hole

Disappointingly, Devil’s Arse cave in Derbyshire does not appear as such on Google maps.

Well, Penistone is my nearest town, and work takes me near Wetwang fairly often, so maybe I am a bit immune.

I like that Carsick Hill in Sheffield is steep and bendy. And of course we enjoyed a visit to Twatt.

Butt Hole Road in Doncaster, which was sadly renamed Archers Way by the residents

The Devil’s Arse name was invented by the owners relatively recently as a marketing ploy. You’ll find Peak Cavern on maps.