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this is the best place name ever

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stripeypillowcase · 10/01/2020 16:58

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Ginxed · 14/01/2020 22:53

@Glorifiedg I never knew that! My granny used to call the villages the 3 sisters, Mavis, Wood and Bag - do you know how Bag Enderby got its name?

NothingIsWrong · 14/01/2020 22:59

Not a village, but one of our local primary schools used to be called Queen's Dyke Primary. Is now called Queen Emma's Primary.

The local stream is called Queen Emma's Dyke...

VeryQuaintIrene · 14/01/2020 23:00

Camp Old Indian (US) always makes me think of an effeminate elderly person from the subcontinent.

Glorifiedg · 15/01/2020 20:00

@ginxed I’m not familiar with Bag Enderby, sounds very interesting though!

Barnowl25 · 15/01/2020 20:14

Has anyone mentioned Fingringhoe yet?

LaPufalina · 15/01/2020 20:31

My sat-nav cut the last letter off Chorlton-cum-Hardy BlushGrin

Gemm83 · 15/01/2020 20:37

There's a place in East Sussex called Fletching. My BF made a Freudian slip once and said she was going to Feltching for the evening. It was after she pissed herself laughing that I found out what it actually meant (I was young and naive), still giggle whenever I drive through it!! 😂😂

BobbinThreadbare123 · 15/01/2020 20:55

There's a village near Carcassonne in France called Fanjeaux Grin

OvenGlovesWillTearUsApart · 16/01/2020 00:35

There’s a place called Wahid Buttocks in Yemen.

80sMum · 16/01/2020 00:57

Wankie, in Zimbabwe.

Buster72 · 16/01/2020 10:32

@80Smum
Goodness me they changed the name 1982.
Hwange

80sMum · 16/01/2020 11:20

Buster72 hahaha! Thanks for that, I didn't know. One of my friends was born there and she's never mentioned that it's not called that any more! Grin

Mulledwineinajug · 16/01/2020 11:29

I once viewed a house on Crotch Crescent. Also received a postcard from Hell.

WallyDancre · 16/01/2020 20:55

Wankie, in Zimbabwe

That entry in the index of the atlas kept us amused through many a geography lesson (late seventies). Alas, the name changed the year after I left school.

The Rio Coco in Nicaragua/Honduras is still known to the native inhabitants as the Wanks or Wanki, apparently.

AlpacaGoodnight · 17/01/2020 18:11

Dogger Bank was the name of a road I drove down recently!

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