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Any towns or villages near you that would make a nice name?

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LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:20

The Harlow thread got me thinking. It's not the idea of using a town as a name that I don't like, it's that it's the same two towns used. Harlow and Camden!

I'm going to start with Kinvara, a place in Galway. I think that'd make a nice name.

Anybody else?

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Lulubee · 22/12/2008 21:54

Cockermouth :D

Although there's a village nearby called Tallentire, which would be a great name for a boy.

cupcakesinthesnow · 22/12/2008 21:56

Tollerpocorum

mediocrebronze · 22/12/2008 22:00

4callingbirds

how about Ering or Anmer then

GrimmaTheNome · 22/12/2008 22:01

Any takers for Grimsargh?

tigermeow · 22/12/2008 22:08

Westward Ho!
Has that great British gung ho-ness about it!

LadyLauraStandish · 22/12/2008 22:19

PMSL at Catford Bus Garage.

toadstool · 22/12/2008 22:42

Nempnet Thrubwell

Temple Cloud

Bradley Stoke and Stoke Bishop (twins?)

SparklyBaubleFeast · 22/12/2008 22:43

lewes - oh that already is a name!

dicker

hooe

sep1712 · 22/12/2008 22:52

Warwick?

Dottoressa · 22/12/2008 22:53

Minskip?

Pannal?

blithedance · 22/12/2008 22:54

Clifton Campville- you're my near neighbour!

Leicestershire has done it the other way round. Villages around here are called Kirby, Moira, Heather, not to mention Le(cei)ster, and Charley.

KerryMum · 22/12/2008 22:55

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geordieminx · 22/12/2008 22:58

Ecclefechan?

ScottishMummy · 22/12/2008 23:03

pratts bottom

pania · 22/12/2008 23:27

Apparently someone recently changed the signpost that says "To Mavis Enderby and Old Bolingbroke" by adding the words "the gift of a son".

Dragonbrandybutter · 22/12/2008 23:29

Crapstone
Budleigh Salterton would make a fine double barrelled name.

Crimboprocta · 22/12/2008 23:40

I think Digbeth or Olton sound quite distinguished for a boy.

I don't think Moseley would go down too well!

Tyseley sounds quite kevvy.

Sheldon is already in use anyway.

Simplysally · 22/12/2008 23:52

Years ago I went through Royston and thought it made a nice name (I fancied a boy named Roy at the time). I wouldn't give that to a child now though .

This names would be good if your surname was Wallop(s): Upper, Middle and Nether (Hampshire).

LadyOfWaffle · 22/12/2008 23:57

Slough?

Nothing nice sounding around here... Windsor for a boy?

themoon66 · 23/12/2008 00:01

The signpost just outside Brandy Wharf has been messed with to read Randy Dwarf

themoon66 · 23/12/2008 00:02

How about Legsby for a girl.
Willingham for a boy.

Tortington · 23/12/2008 00:02

ansty

islandofsodor · 23/12/2008 00:12

I live near to a place called Rudyard. Kipling's parents named him after the place apparently.

wrinklytum · 23/12/2008 00:16

I have a Wetwang near me

ToysAreLikeDogs · 23/12/2008 00:18

I used to live near Wetwang WT,when I was a child.