Unusual place names

Started by Westmarcher, 17 July 2015, 08:01:52 AM

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Westmarcher

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Techno

Not bad, Westie.

I'm sure there must be dozens more.....Pretty certain I've 'seen' some particularly 'rude' ones.
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Doubtless very funny if my computer could be arsed to connect, but no - EE or BT messing about again. Anyway talking of funny names on Radcliffe and McConey yesterday Mark Radcliffe gave the names of the members of Mud Honey as Mark Arm (true), Jimmy Leg, Frank Eye and Barry Penis. Caused uproar in the studio.
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JimLeCat

Well. just round the corner from here is Pity Me, and just up the road is No Place...

Ithoriel

"Unusual" American place names.

I like the idea of living in Good Grief or maybe in Dragon.
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There is a farm outside Market Weaton in Yorkshire called 'Land of Nod'.
Near my mum's in Shropshire there is a hamlet, at the top of the hill called 'Lower Down'.
On the way to my Dad's in Wales there is a settlement called 'Pantyffryd'!
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Techno

I'm sure I've seen some exceedingly rude ones that are allegedly in other countries.
But you never know whether folk have been playing with photoshop, nowadays.

Cheers - Phil

Fenton

Over here we have Fannystown. A Ringrash Road and just across the border in Donegal is Muff
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From Wikipedia
"Muff Diving Club was set up in the late 1980s and has been one of the oldest and 'most successful diving clubs in Ireland'. Attractive perks for members include dives at Malin Head Wrecks.[citation needed]"

Honest, look at their website too!

http://www.muffdivingclub.ie
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Subedai

There is a place named Hucking just up the road.

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Quote from: Fenton on 17 July 2015, 07:49:56 PM
Over here we have Fannystown. A Ringrash Road and just across the border in Donegal is Muff

We also have Tandragee, which might not seem too funny, but is the Anglicisation of Tóin re Gaoith meaning Arse to Windward

The Muff Diving Club people are in on the joke it seems.

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Quote from: Subedai on 17 July 2015, 08:27:13 PM
There is a place named Hucking just up the road.



Austria goes one better than that.
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Techno

There's a Wasp's Nest in Lincolnshire. (A place.....Not an abode for a colony of 'vespas'.) ;)
(Someone once told me there was a place called "Great Hen Striding In The Marsh", in England.....But I think he was making that up.)
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Not far from me is Lunt, which, needless to say, frequently has its sign augmented.
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Ithoriel

Quote from: Leman on 18 July 2015, 09:52:21 AM
Not far from me is Lunt, which, needless to say, frequently has its sign augmented.

Used to drive past the road to Shilbottle the sign to which regularly had the first "l" converted to a "t" by some wag.
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There is a Wyre Piddle in Warwickshire? en route from here to Evesham
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