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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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Crumbelina · 26/08/2018 22:46

I've walked through Booze, in the Yorkshire Dales a few times. Sadly it doesn't have a pub.

wafflyversatile · 26/08/2018 22:47

Not odd as such but I used to live near Liff as in 'The meaning of Liff' book.

Saggital · 26/08/2018 22:59

There’s Cogenhoe in Northamptonshire which is pronounced cook-no

mavismcruet · 26/08/2018 23:02

There is a house near me called Pokey Hole. It’s on Virgin Street Grin

I’ve lived here for years but it never fails to make me snigger!

GrumpyOldMare · 26/08/2018 23:05

Velvet Bottom not far from me, love that one

I was going to mention that spot. Love it up there! Good old Somerset!

weepat · 26/08/2018 23:11

Not far from me is "kilmahog" we always add "shoot my pig"

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 26/08/2018 23:30

Re:- Huish Episcopi...Hew ish Episcopy

Here one:- Libanus in S.Wales.

helpawomanout · 26/08/2018 23:35

We have a trotters bottom here, it's my favourite street sign ever.

thegardenfairy · 26/08/2018 23:41

My sister lives in Bethlehem (Mid West Wales). Those of you who think Jesus was born in the Middle East - think again! 😉

My brother lives in Upper Slaughter 😭

I live in a normal sounding place 😊

NipInTheAir · 26/08/2018 23:42

Ewell has a "Mongers Lane". Awful.

AgathaRaisinsCat · 26/08/2018 23:53

Cockshoot Close is near me and Crotch Crescent isn't too far either. Love that Pisshill (now Pishill as apparently not as obviously rude) was apparently the first Stage Coach stop on the way to London and was so named as it's where the Stage Coach customers stopped for a wee.

Not rude but we have a Hen and Chick Lane which is cute and I used to live in Ducklington.

AtSea1979 · 26/08/2018 23:57

My DC loved driving through giggleswick earlier. They thought all towns should start with giggles as it makes you smile just saying it.

We live near Nob end.

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 27/08/2018 00:04

Also waves to the "Splotties" Grin

SimonBridges · 27/08/2018 00:34

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

Windham for the first one and Hazebrugh for the last one. Not sure about the middle.

SimonBridges · 27/08/2018 00:37

I found these a little while ago online.
They are all Dorset place names reimagined as different things.

To ask if anybody lives in one of the UK's oddest place names like beer, nasty, etc.?
To ask if anybody lives in one of the UK's oddest place names like beer, nasty, etc.?
TidyDancer · 27/08/2018 00:56

A friend lives near Cold Christmas Lane. The locals like to think it's a tiny village but it's really just a road!

I have another friend who used to live in Sticker (village in Cornwall).

prestidigitation · 27/08/2018 03:23

Where I grew up there was a Treacle Cock Alley, sadly no longer there. We stayed near Twatt on our holidays this year, and I live near Upperthong and Thongsbridge.

Brahumbug · 27/08/2018 07:26

For those who mentioned whip ma wop MA gate. One of the properties is number two and a half, what today we would call 2a. Now that is a great address, 2 and a half whip ma wop ma gate.

missmouse101 · 27/08/2018 07:48

We used to take our dog to boarding kennels at Bully Hole Bottom! (Near Chepstow.)

tillytrotter1 · 27/08/2018 08:09

We drove through Norfolk last week and I told my husband an appropriate place for him to live would be Great Snoring !!

Who hasn't done that!!!!

I used to love the Idle Working Men's Club, Idle Women's Institute in Bradford.
Bickering in Lincolnshire, Wittering in Cambridgeshire (and others) and Loggerheads in the Welsh border always struck me as being the places for marital harmony.

tillytrotter1 · 27/08/2018 08:14

Of course if you extend this beyond the UK you can also have Intercourse in Pennsylvania, in Gibraltar there's Back Serfaty's Passage which we always called Serfaty's Back Passage.

thegreylady · 27/08/2018 08:21

I live near Shrewsbury where there is a small street called Grope Lane.

exLtEveDallas · 27/08/2018 08:26

When we were looking to relocate to Shrewsbury I was desperate to buy the post office in the Village of Knockin just so I could run the Knockin Shop.

Lockheart · 27/08/2018 09:07

@NipInTheAir - I’m fairly sure that refers to mongers as in ironmongers or fishmongers, presumably the street where they were based, and not the slur.

Lockheart · 27/08/2018 09:14

@hellokittymania @longwayoff I live near Shoot Up Hill, and I’ve seen several theories behind the name; because the mill (on mill lane) burnt down quite spectacularly one night - it shot up in flames, or that it’s where they did archery practice, or because the old Roman road shot upwards up the hill. Never read anything to do with highwaymen though!