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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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hellokittymania · 26/08/2018 12:21

Sweet, that would make sense if there is a little body of water nearby to pity me.

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hellokittymania · 26/08/2018 12:23

Sweet, my godmother's family lives there. In maidenhead.

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PumpkinPie2016 · 26/08/2018 12:23

I have passed through a place called Hermit Hole Grin always makes me giggle!

mycelialnetwork · 26/08/2018 12:25

I live near Happy Bottom.

TinDogTavern · 26/08/2018 12:26

I live in Splott Smile

GoatYoga · 26/08/2018 12:28

I live not to far from Nob End

IndigoSpritz · 26/08/2018 12:29

Barton In The Beans in Leicestershire is nicely English and quaint.

Buggeritimgettingup · 26/08/2018 12:29

I also love near penistone amd carsick hill!, locally there is also a cumwell lane, fanny avenue and willy street! I'm sad that the residents of butt hole lane voted to change it 😂

ElspethTascioni · 26/08/2018 12:29

Yeah Bikerunski but Carsick isn’t pronounced car sick, it’s carzick, so looks funny, but like Penistone, not funny to the locals!

NicoAndTheNiners · 26/08/2018 12:31

Penistone always makes me giggle even though I know it’s not pronounced like penis.

Went past a sign once for a village called Land of Nod.

GreatWesternValkyrie · 26/08/2018 12:31

I’m visiting the delightfully named Cow Roast this week 🐄

And I never fail to snigger childishly every time I pass Trumpington!

Missingstreetlife · 26/08/2018 12:32

Piddle trenthide, piddle Hinton, nr river piddle,

GMtoBe · 26/08/2018 12:37

I live near Lickey End. My dh still comments on it every time we drive past the sign.

LaPufalina · 26/08/2018 12:40

I live in Chorlton-cum-Hardy and the last letter used to cut off on the display of my old satnav Grin

Howhot · 26/08/2018 12:40

I work in pity me. You do just get used to it, I don't notice it anymore. It's a bit grey but a typical town on the outskirts of Durham.

Charmatt · 26/08/2018 12:41

@sweetsummerchild

Charmattis that the Bunny that has a road leading from it to Gotham by any chance?

Yes, it is! Gotham and it's historic lunacy was the inspiration for Gotham City!Grin

hellokittymania · 26/08/2018 12:41

How do you pronounce penis stone? I'm sorry I'm visually impaired and using dictation and that's is how he pronounces it.

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prettygreywalls · 26/08/2018 12:42

I often drive through upper Dicker and lower Dicker , I always tell DP that I've been there it gives us huge amounts of childish pleasure

UpstartCrow · 26/08/2018 12:43

Howhot
''I work in pity me.''

I'd find that confusing if you were reading out your address for me to write down. I'd be waiting for the punchline.

birdy1978 · 26/08/2018 12:45

I used to live in Crapstone which is actually a very nice little village.

SendYouUpInFlames · 26/08/2018 12:46

I live close to a Salt Pie Alley

hellokittymania · 26/08/2018 12:46

Crow, I think I would be thinking the same thing. Just like my email address begins with the word email, not very creative I know, but people don't get my email address correctly because they live they leave off the word email

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prettygreywalls · 26/08/2018 12:48

Just found a Crossbush near Burpham

And Horney common not very far from upper and lower Dicker

SweetSummerchild · 26/08/2018 12:51

@Charmatt

My dad traced our family tree about 20 years ago when he first retired. The furthest back he got was to some time in the 1500s on my mum’s side of the family. They were from Gotham. Explains a lot really (inserts maniacal Harley Quinn laugh).

That ‘branch’ of the family never really went far geographically - I grew up in East Leake.

Chocolatedeficitdisorder · 26/08/2018 12:54

There's a place I pass regularly called Skinflats, but my (ex-nurse's) brain always turns it into Skinflaps. I can't imagine wanting to live there.

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