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?

There was one of those in Banbury too. Apparently once the haunt of women of ill repute, but now called Parsons Street.

Any port in a storm!

Surely this has to be the undisputed winner of 'Most Ridiculous Street Name Ever'?!

It's the shortest street in York too

My oldest used to live just off Twatling Road.

We also have Bell End, Lickey End and Wyre Piddle.

Pity Me in Durham
Why , what have you done?

Yes you're right! Wrong way round

I didn’t know that - thank you, @WestwardHo1.

One year we took DS to Ham and Sandwich, which he found hilarious.
So the following year we booked a holiday in Poo. It's in Asturias, and actually well worth the visit.

The Norwegian bus company which ran to Hell named the line number 666. There were so many complaints from Christian groups that they were forced to change it to 669.
A new company has just taken over and changed it back to line 666.

Used to be one in Whitby where my GGG grandfather had a gentlemen outfitter shop but was changed to Grape Lane

I remember reading about this in a Brownie annual when I was about 8 years old

Ah, yes - Whitby...

I visited Orkney recently and bought some beremeal together with a leaflet of recipes using it contributed by locals, with their name and village…yes, there were quite a lot of (Twatt)s

I lived quite near the aforementioned Intercourse for a while, and we had a couple of weekends skiing at a resort named Blue Knob.

This thread reminds me of a classic little book which I don’t think anyone has mentioned yet - The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.

Is that book the one where they assign reasonable-sounding meanings to place names - e.g. kettering is the marks that you get on the back of your legs after sitting on a wicker chair; and cheam is the goo that develops around your bath taps - or was that the Uxbridge English Dictionary?!

I think so. It does include (IIRC from decades ago) Wetwang and Piddletrenthide, though precisely which meant what I don’t recall.

@ErrolTheDragon , a marvellous book from which our family has adopted the meaning of Kentucky - when the last thing to go in exactly fits the space remaining.

As in "that packed away all nice and Kentucky."

Love Meaning of Life.

Altami - the ability to balance the hot and cold tap in the bath with your toes.