Funny place names...

[Nevin]

Has anyone got any amusing place names to report? It might be a village or town that you live in, or somewhere you have heard of. For example, I used to drive through Christmas Pie on a regular basis!

[JFK]

I once heard of a village called Lord Hereford's Knob.  It's only small (the village).

[Cetti]

Dorset is awash with the name Piddle: Piddlehinton, Piddles Wood and even  Puddletown was originally called Piddletown but the townsfolk had it changed.

There is a holiday camp in the New Forest that has a name so unbelievable that I can't imagine who named it - or who would stay there. Anyone from Hampshire or Dorset will know the one I mean.

[dirtyharriet]

Shi*terton piddlenthride

[dirtyharriet]

Shi**erton wyre piddle

[Lindy Loo]

I live near Pratts Bottom but have never known how or why it gots is name or what it means!! Any ideas anybody?

[Lindy Loo]

And I the same area is World Ends Lane....a very long lane leading to practically nowhere!!

[tartanwiz]

I have a book (don't know if it's still in print) called 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams. I even have the sequel, 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff'. Both books are a kind of dictionary of funny place names to which the author has put silly meanings. Check it out!

[Toffee]

I was once in a town in Germany called Titz.

[Clanad]

Intercourse, PA, has been mentioned... it's about on the same latitude as Climax, MN (USA)...

[Greedyfly]

Whip-ma-whop-ma gate YORK    I live very close it and it is the most random name for a street I have encountered.   And a place called Thong in Kent.

[IndieSinger]

I forgot - there's a place in Germany called Wa*k (n) and there's a place on an island off Scotland called Tw*tt (a).

[oohbadknee]

i've been to F****r in Austria, and crapling in northumberland.

[Numbers]

Butt Hole Road in Conisbrough.

[dml54]

Land of Nod and Wetwang, in Yorkshire

[allan.g0ias]

How about  " BOLSOVER" in Derbyshire... the locals pronounce it " BOWSER"... wonder why... or " Rhodesia" small village just outside of Worksop... Lots of quaint names around...

[Numbers]

This place:

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[Philtaz]

When travelling home on leave from Germany I used to drive through a place called ******.  I believe there is also another German town named ****.

[Philtaz]

The first word is pronounced Vankum but the first letter is a W (posted for clarification purposes in order to bypass the AB Edit!)

[ezapf]

SteveD beat me to it. Here is another in Pennsylvania: Poconos - sounds like 'poke a nose', so when my wife says it I poke her nose then she gets angry and I laugh and she gets more angry...

[raindog]

I really can't be bothered checking through all those posts- pant-y-stains in North Wales.  how cool is that?