Place Names

[Marmora Man]

Brendan Wrote:

"Bognor Regis" lol!

That's a funny name. Did you just make it up.

citizenED Wrote:

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No Brendan, it is the quintessential funny English town name - used to much hilarity.

Marmora Man Wrote:

And there are others - Lower Piddle and Upper Piddle, or a personal favourite (it was the village next door when I was a boy) - Ugley, so we had the Ugley Women's Institute, Ugley Boy Scouts, Ugley Church etc etc.

This is almost worth a thread of its own - strange place names

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Pratts Bottom, Kent

[Brendan]

Yeah I was just being silly I do know it's a town but I still can't hear someone say it without wanting to laugh. ;-)

[lozzyloz]

Camberwell?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Peniston, Yorkshire

[Annasfield]

Grunty Fenn - go on look it up!!

[Annasfield]

Oooh just thought of another - Six Mile Bottom in Cambridgeshire

[mockney piers]

Grew up near Nasty and Much Hadham.

Another I love is Lower Swell in the cotswolds (and sister village, Upper Swell).

[Marmora Man]

What about the Slaughters in Gloucestershire - Upper & Lower. One of them was also one of the very few villages without a WWI Memorial bacuse all the soldiers from there returned home alive. There was special name for these villages.

[Mark]

I used to work with a foreigner who found the village name Cheddar Gorge very funny

[downsouth]

Worlds End, Chelsea; Locks Bottom; Theydon Bois

or fictionally Royston Vasey

[ben]

Pease Pottage

[BarryRoad]

Westward Ho!

The exclamation point is part of the name. Excellent.

[BarryRoad]

I always found Compton Dando funny too.

[Nero]

Wetwang in Yorkshire. Blubberhouses likewise. Ramsbottom in Lancs. Nero

[spadetownboy]

thong - down the a2 coast bound.

[annaj]

Hetty Pegler's Tump, between Nymphsfield and Uley in South Gloucestershire.

[citizenED]

In Jamaica, theres a little place called Wait-a-bit.

[mockney piers]

Peover Heath, Scronkey, Diss, Gipping, Seething, Hose, Weeford, Strumpshaw...

[AllyCat]

I grew up 2 villages away from Bat & Ball in Kent....

[SeanMacGabhann]

I see Bat & Ball on the train maps - always wondered what kind of place it is (can probably guess mind)

[georgina]

Well I grew up near...

Cocking, West Sussex

[georgina]

Oh ooh and...

Lickfold, West Sussex!!!

[Nero]

Cockermouth, anyone? Nero

[Muttley]

Oh Phuket.