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

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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?

I clearly live in Dog Shit Alley

Oh yes, as pp said
Inner Ting Tong and Outer Ting Tong, and in the opposite direction,
Black Dog and Sheepwash 😁

I grew up in Twatt until I was 12

I've been to Twatt or passed through a few times, my husband worked 2 days a week in Orkney (and sometimes longer) for a few years.

@prettygreywalls I know quite a few people with the surname Dicker - it always makes us smile too

When travelling to my grandparents as a kid, we always used to go through Upper Dicker (and past Lower Dicker).

Sussex has quite a few ridiculous ones if I remember rightly.

Hurrah thanks ta1k. Can put it to rest at last. Bewildered me for a long time

Near me is Bendish. Also near Slip End. Looked at a property once at Trowley Bottom, Flamstead.

There's a village in Co. Durham called Cockfield

longwayoff I think of it as this and apologies as I do not know how to write phonetically;

Huh-weesh Episkoppy

There are so many more amazing names in the West Country.

I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned my favourite yet;

Lord Hereford’s Knob

Especially as thousands actually climb on top of it each year. It’s a pretty big one, and after a lot of hard work, sweat and grunting, I have seen many come back down with wobbly legs.

Not quite the same, but drove through a village called Buckton where the B had been changed to an F

I live an hour away from a place called 'no place 'hahaha

Immortalised in a Half Man Half Biscuit song tho @saggital

The first map is wrong! I live in one of those places and it's not a weird name at all, it's misspelt on the map.

I won't say which one as it's outing

There's a hamlet in Hertfordshire called "Cold Christmas Lane".

In Kent, there are some good ones: Bean, also Borstal (site of the original Borstal for young offenders). Other funny ones are Sittingbourne, Headcorn, and there's a station called Bat and Ball.

As for Wetwang, wasn't Countdown presenter Richard Whiteley mayor of Wetwang? He also went to boarding school in Giggleswick. There was a poem sent in which he once read out on Countdown:

We went to Yorkshire for a week, and Wetwang we passed through.
But where oh where was the local Mayor? There was no sign of you.
What a let-down, we were upset, no scone, no cup of tea.
Did you flush your chain and disappear, or were you up a tree?
We looked for you everywhere, in the woods and down the lane,
But the Mayor was nowhere to be seen, no rattle of your chain.
So next time we're in the area, we hope the parlour's open wide,
And you're stood there with open arms, saying "Welcome! Come inside."

Mind you, as child I thought Luton was a silly name, because of local posh-voiced train announcements: "The Thameslink service to LOOton will leave from platform 1". You could imagine the rounded robotic lips on the first syllable.

Take it back, it's blurred and slightly away from where I live.

As you were

And in Sandwich in Kent, there's "No Name Street".

Hoppinggreen my mum's from the same village as Jamie Vardy, not far from Penistone.

AlliKane I also live near Undy! In a place beginning with M

My Irish friend was born in Muff....arent we all?

^ This is how the conversations usually go when it comes up

I've visited the village of Hell in Norway. They do a roaring trade in souvenirs of the village sign, particularly 'Wish You Were Here' postcards.

I used to live in Norfolk and yes, the Snorings do exist. But Norfolk's speciality is placenames which are pronounced in a totally different way to how they are spelt

Wymondham is a favourite but I love Hautbois and Happisburgh. Round of applause to anyone who can get all three pronunciations right.

I live near Ae

Used to have a client based in Blubberhouses.

Let's not forget Pratt's Bottom in Kent.

We liked this one