More Amusing English Place Names

[Nickodell]

Here's a few more for your giggles:

Thornton-le-Beans
Nether Wallop
Chew Magna
Leatherhead
Much Hadham
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Theddlethorpe
Little Missenden
Stow-on-the-Wold
White Ladies Aston

Bottom o' the Moor
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (I'm not making any of these up!)
Wigtwizzle
Meathop
Wigglesworth
Mousehole
Prittlewell
Shipton-under-Wychwood
Ryme Intrinseca

Weston-under-Lizard (In Cornwall there's also just Lizard)
Mid Thundergay
Blubberhouses
St. Dogmaels
Isle of Dogs (which is not an island and isn't especially replete with dogs.)
Spittal of Glenshee
Wooton-under-Edge
Owlpen
Toadsmoor
Great Steeping

Some sound like medical complaints:
Whiterashes
Scurlage
Sockburn
Scabcleuch
Great Snoring
Wormelow Tump


While others sound like characters in a BBC Edwardian play:
Sampford Peverell
Stockleigh Pomeroy
Stanstead Mountfitchet
Stoke Poges

Somewhat Ominous:
Gravesend
Husbands Bosworth


Speaking of giggles, there's also a Giggleswick

 

[Series6]

Great Nick... You just used up some great names for the next Caption Contest. Guess we'll have to invent some...

Speaking of the Caption Contests.....

 

[howard]

Blubberhouses. Now THAT I can use for my domicile!

 

[GlennB]

I live in Stoke Poges, and yes, even we think the name is odd. Co-incidence. An old Brit joke tells of the man who was lost and leant out of his car to ask a local tramp "Leatherhead?" and got the answer "Pie Face!"

 

[Series6]

Not to change the subject but the city I live in was named for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.... Goodyear had a resort for company execs to escape to during dreary winters..and the name stuck. 1946....

 

[harryholbay]

Unusual names

Not English but,
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. (one word)
is the name of a small town in Wales!! for brevity the 'locals' refer to it as Llanfair.
Mick.

 

[Nickodell]

Not English but,
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. (one word)
is the name of a small town in Wales!! for brevity the 'locals' refer to it as Llanfair.
Mick.

Been there. The station is quite small, and the station name sign occupies half the length of the platform. Here's my ticket:

 

[Nickodell]

I live in Stoke Poges, and yes, even we think the name is odd. Co-incidence. An old Brit joke tells of the man who was lost and leant out of his car to ask a local tramp "Leatherhead?" and got the answer "Pie Face!"

Reminds me of the account told us by a friend of my wife's who used to travel a lot in France. On her first trip there she was driving a rental car on a country lane when, around a corner, a car drove straight at her and at the last moment swung round to miss hers. As the driver passed he yelled Cochon! (pig!) at her. For a moment she thought that she had mistakenly been driving on the wrong side, but no, she was correctly on the right. So why would a Frenchman be on the wrong side, and why would he hurl abuse at her?

So she accelerated away, rounded the corner and immediately hit a huge sow lying in the road, damaging her radiator.