British place names that would sound good as first names

[FrancisdeSales]

Just musing... What about

Exeter
Cumbria
Lewisham (!!)

Any takers?

Leatherhead!! Sounds like a GOT character!

I have heard of 2 brothers called Marlow and Henley (prob an urban myth).

Warwick isn't that uncommon.

I've always thought Edith Weston should be a person not a place anyway !

Rochester sounds all Sense-and-sensibilityesque.

Oban
Dunbar
Stirling
Jedburgh
Elgin
Pembroke
Antrim
Arundel
Basildon
Bromley
Edgware
Grimsby
Halifax
Hatfield
Ilkley
Keighley
Luton
Newlyn
Oakham
Ormskirk
Padstow
Pontefract
Rayleigh
Richmond
Rugeley
Smethwick
Stamford
Swanley
Warwick
Wembley
Wetherby
Wigan

We have used some place names for our Playmobil people. For example, Sir Ospringe Bapchild, Sir Biddenden Smeeth (these are both knights) and Lady Mersham Wye.

Colindale
Kenley
Bradley Stoke

Lots of surnames originate from places.

Hastings (my home town) .... Not so sure about Ardrossan (dh's home town).....

Six Mile Bottom?

Cleckheaton, Cleck for short.

Caio, Dyfed, Gwynedd, Mawddwy, Enlli, Brecon, Conway, Flint, Holt, Harlech, Risca.

All Welsh place names.

Oh and mustn't forget Barry

Might take a pass on Llantwit Major and Splott though.

I actually came across a couple who had named their child Kensington-Camden [Surnane]. It was the child's full name too, not just a middle name. They were American so I wondered if they had been on honeymoon in London or something!

newlife that made me laugh on your thread. Made me wonder if there are any small children wandering about called 'Little Hulton' "coz wen he's older, he can be a rapper" which, would not surprise me in the slightest.

Studley Roger

I know of a Cambridge (female).
I probably wouldn't raise an eyebrow at Camden.
Bristol Palin as namesake?

Bognor

Westward Ho!
Worksop

Derby?
I know of a darbie and I think its a very sweet name.

I rather fancy twins called Jesmond and Jarrow.

One of DD's names is Hope, after the Hope Valley in Derbyshire where we used to live.

Kingston (already used)
Ashby (de la Zouch)
Potters (Bar)
Alton

I'd go for Scottish islands: Skye, Iona, etc

I've taught sisters who were Iona and Skye.

Lower slaughter....?