Silly Place Names?

[12CSVT]

Back in BR days, can you imagaine the look on a tickets sellers face when asked for a Penisstone to Ramsbottom ticket! hock:

Or Penistone to Wombwell - and it only takes 20 min to get from one to the other on the Huddersfield - Sheffield service

 

[185]

The village of Lunt, Merseyside has the most vandalised sign in the UK.

 

[starrymarkb]

Dead Woman's Bottom in Somerset

 

[Mojo]

Just to add something to that, my art teacher was called Mr. Painter....

My school had two art teachers; Mr. Brown and Miss White.

 

[me123]

'Coatbridge Sunnyside' is ironically silly, since Coatbridge is hardly renowned for its weather or its pleasant atmos.

It's named after an area of the town called Sunnyside. Why on earth it's called that I don't know. I can't imagine a more depressing place than Sunnyside to be honest.

Apparently there's a body of water near here called Fanny Burn.

 

[90019]

As featured on Top Gear.

 

[deltic1989]

Well if were starting on people I went to school with a Richard Headingley . And when I was in the navy I heard of a General Edward Speaking, and was once on a ship commanded by commander smalldick.

 

[33056]

Poo (Northern Spain)
Kissing (Germany)
Silly (Belgium)
Anger (Austria)
Great Snoring and Little Snoring (Norfolk UK)

 

[142094]

County Durham has a few including No Place and Pity Me.

 

[HugePilchard]

I grew up not far from Penishapentre, which I didn't even realise contained a rude word until a couple of years ago.

 

[LE Greys]

Some East Anglian ones.
Fingeringhoe on the Essex coast
Six Mile Bottom near Newmarket
Ugley, with it's famous Women's Institute

There's a book out somewhere called Rude Britain with a lot more.

<EDIT> And Foulness, where they wanted to build an airport and changed it to Maplain Sands

 

[EM2]

Ugley, with it's famous Women's Institute

What about the WI in the village near Maidstone? The Loose Women's Institute!

 

[4SRKT]

What about the WI in the village near Maidstone? The Loose Women's Institute!

In a certain north Bradford suburb we have the Idle Working Men's Club.

 

[Chapeltom]

Leicestershire football team Shepshed Dynamo play at Butt Hole Lane.

 

[Lampshade]

Swindon.

 

[Super Sprinter]

Cockbank

 

[Hydro]

Seattle.



(Simpsons fans will get this one)

 

[aspierail]

Cocking

Nasty

Shag Harbour

Black Boy Lane (this is a local road not to far from where i live)

Crooked Usage (a road in finchley)

Happy Bottom

Scratchy Bottom

 

[LE Greys]

If we're going to include roads, how about Back Passage in London?

 

[DaveNewcastle]

County Durham has a few including No Place and Pity Me.

It does indeed!
Bear Pit is another.

I used to think that 'No Place' was just the default text which some software inserted if the user hadn't entered a Town name in the required format - and then I realised the truth. The Village really is called "No Place" and has a rather well known real ale pub called the "Beamish Mary Inn".

I was asked to distract some excitable young people (how?) while driving them through the southern France village of Condom.

 

[Lampshade]

If we're going to include roads, how about Back Passage in London?

I think Old Cock Yard in Preston clinches it

 

[W-on-Sea]

There's a Cut Throat Alley in Witham. And Bleeding Heart Yard in Farringdon, London.

 

[deltic1989]

Just off high bridge in Lincoln there's a short passage called ...... The glory hole.

 

[dickdarlington]

I always giggle at Westward Ho!

There is of course S****horpe for those with the smutty mind.

Indeed there are a number of pit villages in and around the North East with interesting names, including Pity Me and No Place. There is also West Allotment and Cockfield.

I upset a uni mate who was visiting a few years back when I said I was taking him to see Hawes. I've never seen someone look so sad as he nibbled on cheese.

I also like Ecclefechan, and of course just outside Edinburgh...Wallyford.

 

[43106]

North of Dorchester in Dorset are the villages of Piddletrenthide and Piddlehinton. Also in the neighbourhood is the River Piddle.

 

[hmp455]

D**do and Newfoundland, Canada

Tw*tt, Orkney

Pratt's Bottom, near Orpington

 

[Heinz57]

Wagga Wagga - Australia
Blue Ball Entry - Hull, England
N0bber - County Meath, Ireland
Seattle - Washington State, USA
Condom - France
PooPoo Place - Oahu, Hawaii, USA
PeePee Falls - Wailuku River State Park, Hawaii, USA

I've got a whole book of these things

 

[Eng274]

Crinkley Bottom, where Noel Edmonds and Mr Blobby live.

A bit of Dunfermline is called Touch, pronounced 'took'

Burntisland

Forfar (where the 04:44 terminates)

Culross (pronounced coo-riss)

Bangalore - apt name for a back street sauna

Ecclesmachen, Ecclefechan (a 'f€ck' and a 'smack'..welcome to West Lothian)

 

[12CSVT]

Ae Village in South West Scotland