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To ask if anybody lives in one of the UK's oddest place names like beer, nasty, etc.?

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hellokittymania · 26/08/2018 11:31

I just googled beer and found the beer Church of England primary school. I'm guessing the place is named because of a brewery or something? But why is nasty called nasty? Or do I really want to know? Maybe it's particularly nasty weather?

To ask if anybody lives in one of the UK's oddest place names like beer, nasty, etc.?
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AleFailTrail · 05/07/2019 01:02

Not RTFT but anyone brought up the town that has a swear filter nicknamed after it, Scunthorpe

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 06/07/2019 13:07

I hear that Lightwater in Surrey also has issues with being accidentally censored when mentioned online.

Not sure if it was true, but I read a few years ago about a school in Sussex having its own school website blocked by its inbuilt filtering system because the school happened to be located in a county containing a possibly 'naughty' word.

Also, an amateur dramatics group apparently offered to perform a pantomime, free of charge, for children at local schools and were surprised not to receive a single reply one way or the other from 30-odd schools. When they called to follow up, it turned out that their email had been automatically blocked for obscene content and the headteachers had never even received it. The pantomime was a production of Dick Whittington.

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