Unusual place names

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

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18 July 2015, 08:51:49 AM #15
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18 July 2015, 09:21:17 AM #16
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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Leman

18 July 2015, 09:52:21 AM #17
Not far from me is Lunt, which, needless to say, frequently has its sign augmented.
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18 July 2015, 09:55:31 AM #18
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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18 July 2015, 10:35:38 AM #19
There is a Wyre Piddle in Warwickshire? en route from here to Evesham
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OldenBUA

19 July 2015, 11:23:38 AM #20 Last Edit: 19 July 2015, 11:25:50 AM by OldenBUA


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein

Two Buffaloes shot stone dead with one shot Springs just doesn't have the same ring to it.  ;)
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

19 July 2015, 11:55:12 AM #21
Longest place names (before the thread gets complicated hijacked)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names
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19 July 2015, 02:09:16 PM #22
Quote from: OldenBUA on 19 July 2015, 11:23:38 AM


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein

Two Buffaloes shot stone dead with one shot Springs just doesn't have the same ring to it.  ;)

Almost certainly a hoax. Every South African wants to believe there is such a place, but searches repeatedly fail to locate it. Sad but true.
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paulr

19 July 2015, 07:57:40 PM #23
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 July 2015, 11:55:12 AM
Longest place names (before the thread gets complicated hijacked)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names

I have been to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Not a lot to see really ;D
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19 July 2015, 08:39:26 PM #24
Not much in Llanfair P G either, other than the Marquis of Anglesey's column (Lord Uxbridge) although down on the Menai Strait is his home - Plas Newydd (NT) where you can see some relics from Waterloo, including his uniform, and the wooden leg he had fitted after Waterloo.
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AndyT

19 July 2015, 08:46:15 PM #25
There's a village called Tiddlywink about 20 miles from where we live. Not rude, just very silly.

FierceKitty

20 July 2015, 12:50:28 AM #26 Last Edit: 20 July 2015, 12:57:00 AM by FierceKitty
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Leon

20 July 2015, 01:37:49 AM #27
When I lived in Cornwall the next village down from us was Splatt.
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OldenBUA

20 July 2015, 06:07:30 PM #28
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 July 2015, 02:09:16 PM
Almost certainly a hoax. Every South African wants to believe there is such a place, but searches repeatedly fail to locate it. Sad but true.

I did read that, but interestingly enough, both the Dutch and the Afrikaander wikipages agree with this, while the English page fails to mention it.  :-\
Water is indeed the essential ingredient of life, because without water you can't make coffee!

Aander lu bin óók lu.

FierceKitty

21 July 2015, 12:26:14 AM #29
I wonder if a worthy Boer has decided to make the myth into reality. There is a Hobbiton in eastern South Africa, after all.
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