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 used to work with someone who was from Intercourse Pennsylvania!

He had a map of the area in his office and proudly pointed to it when he shared this information, as he did with anyone new to the office.

I just so happen to have a random OS map on the table next to me of Shrewsbury and surrounding area (Landranger 126), so I have opened it in honour of this thread and found, in no particular order:

Oaf's Orchard
Baggy Moor
Clive
Crumpwell
Lower Grimmer and Upper Grimmer (I wonder which is worse)
Cross Houses
Bluebell
Waterloo
Brickwalls
Tarts Hill
Grimpo

I want to visit those places now.😁

Every time we drive past Cross Houses, one of us will always exclaim "It's Angry Bungalows!"

Middle, Nether and Over Wallop in Hampshire. DGPs lived in Nether and we lived at Middle for a while.

'Wendy cum shingay' near me…

I live not too far from Cockpole Green.

Pescatarian, so I can't eat chips in East Yorkshire unfortunately. They all seem to use dripping.

We have a semicock road. And also Muff and the famous Muff diving club.

Also one in Shetland! I visited with a friend and there was much sniggering, though the sign was the most exciting thing about it.

It must mean something in Norse

The village of Knockin has a shop. IYKYK.
There is a Grope Lane in Shrewsbury that used to be Gropecunt Lane.

Brown Willy.

I know where it is, but for those that don’t. Google is your mate, or possibly not!

Minions in Cornwall used to have little yellow creatures in blue dungarees on its village signs.
I have a feeling they get replaced when they are removed by officialdom.

😂😂

You're drifting dangerously into Biggus Dickus territory with that one.

I was always intrigued by the village of Strubby in Lincolnshire. It sounds like it should be an adjective to me, maybe a cross between stubby and scruffy...?

"What's her new boyfriend like?"
"Well, to be honest he's a bit strubby..."

There's a place in The Netherlands called Sexbierum, bier being the Dutch word for beer.

It always makes me chuckle seeing it.

Best address in the country - Basic Slag Road, Scunthorpe.

Brilliant, isn’t it? They do say truth is stranger than fiction 😁

Was it what one of my aunts would have described as 'a less salubrious area'.

The mayor of Wetwang often tells me what my weather's going to be.

There is indeed
And a Stitch Mi Lane.
My Dad lives a stones throw away ftom Ramsbottom.

Oh definitely, according to Wikipedia, it signalled that prostitution occurred in the area. Apparently it was common practice for medieval street names to reflect their function.

Can you imagine a sat nav from back then. “Turn right onto Gropecunt Lane, then turn left onto Blow Job Avenue…. You have reached your destination”.

I thought it was Shingay cum Wendy?

I'm near Sandy Balls and Wilsford cum Lake. Don't fancy swimming in the latter.

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Dildo, New Foundland and Labrador. There’s a great little brewery there