We've all done it, I'm sure...

Been driving down an A-road, seen a road sign, and had a chuckle at some of the names of towns...

My fave's have to be:

1. Box
2. Beer
3. Giggleswick
4. Wigglesworth

Oswaldtwistle, pronounced 'ozzletwistle' by the locals, is a great one.

Nige

There's a picture of me and 5 mates on the way down to Newquay from Kent standing beside a big road sign, showing directions on how to get to......

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(not iwshing to swear, the name of the place is C O C K





[i]oi-silly swear filter. that's a place !!!! he he.[/i]

Use to pass a signpost to the 'Land of Nod' quire regularly when travelling between Wakefield and Flamborough which I always used to laugh at...

Someone sent me a picture of a place in the States called D i c k Lick Springs,

In the UK i drove through a village called Tiddlywink, it consisted of about 5 houses,

[quote name='l3arx' date='May 27 2003, 02:43 PM']In the UK i drove through a village called Tiddlywink, it consisted of about 5 houses,[/quote]
Yeah, it's on the way to Castle Combe.. about 5 mins from where I live....

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****T - [in the orkneys]

Couldn't remember a lot I used to pass through so did a quick search on the web and found the following...

Chicksands, Bedfordshire - Sounds fun
Dirty Gutter, Staffordshire - best avoided....
Little Snoring, Norfolk
Loose, Kent - named after the inhabitants ???
Pity Me, Durham
Sockburn, Darlington - American Pie anyone
Stop-and-call, Pembrokeshire

Just a few to start with !

upper and lower dicker

kent/sussex somewhere




ian : have you got mrs mop to do your job as well
got to much time on your hands

Wetwang in Yorkshire

check this list (blatantly found on the net somewhere )



Apes Hall, Norfolk
Askham Richard, Yorkshire
Bedburn, Durham
Blackadder, Scottish Borders
Black Dog, Devon
Boot, Cumbria
Booze, North Yorkshire
Breach, Kent
Broadrashes, Moray
Brokenborough, Wiltshire
Burnt Houses, Durham
Busta, Shetland
Caynham, Shropshire
Chicksands, Bedfordshire
Clappers, Northumberland
Climpy, South Lanarkshire
Cowbit, Lincolnshire
Cowbeech, East Sussex
Crackpot, North Yorkshire
Cults, Dumfries and Galloway
Dirty Gutter, Staffordshire
Dungy Head, Dorset
Diss, Norfolk
Dog Village, Devon
Dollarbeg, Clackmannanshire
Drunkendub, Angus
Drymen, Stirling
Dubheads, Perth and Kinross
Duck End, Essex
Duffus, Moray
Egypt, Hampshire
Eye, Suffolk
Fakenham, Norfolk
Fans, Scottish Borders
Far Gearstones, North Yorkshire
Fartown, Kirklees
Fatfield, Tyne & Wear
Fattahead, Aberdeenshire
Felldownhead, Devon
Filgrave, Milton Keynes
Flash, Staffordshire
Floors, North Ayrshire
Folly Gate, Devon
Foulden (Lothian, Scotland)
Foul Mile, East Sussex
Frenchbeer, Devon
Frisby On The Wreake, Leicestershire
Frog Pool, Worcestershire
Gass, South Ayrshire
Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
Godolphin Cross, Cornwall
Goosey, Oxfordshire
Gospel End, Staffordshire
Great Snoring, Norfolk
Gurney Slade, Avon
Hammer, West Sussex
Hell Gate, Telford and Wrekin
Herodsfoot, Cornwall
Herringfleet, Norfolk
Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne and Wear
High Ham, Somerset
High Wych, Hertfordshire
Hinderwell, Yorkshire
Hoe, Norfolk
Hole in the Wall, Derbyshire
Hook-a-gate, Shropshire
Hope, Shropshire
Hopton Wafers, Shropshire
Idle, Nottinghamshire
Inkpen, West Berkshire
Intake, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire
Jump, South Yorkshire
Kennyhill, Norfolk
Killiecrankie, Perth and Kinross
Kilmahog, Stirling
Kilmany, Fife
Knockdown, Avon
Knockin, Shropshire
Little Snoring, Norfolk
Little Town, Cumbria
Little Wratting, Suffolk
Long Waste, Shropshire
London Apprentice, Cornwall
Loose, Kent
Lost, Aberdeenshire
Lower Down, Shropshire
Mindrum, Northumberland
Mockbeggar, Kent
More, Shropshire
Morphie, Aberdeenshire
Mousehole, Cornwall
Mucking, Thurrock
Muddles Green, East Sussex
Nasty, Hertfordshire
New Invention, Somerset
Nitshill, Glasgow
North Piddle, Worcestershire
Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire
Old Scone, Perth and Kinross
Oldwhat, Aberdeenshire
Old Wives Lees, Kent
Oliver's Battery, Hampshire
Paradise, Cornwall
Pidley, Cambridgeshire
Pity Me, Durham
Pixey Green, Suffolk
Pokesdown, Dorset
Portknockie, Moray
Pott Row, Norfolk
Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire
Puddledock, Norfolk
Puddletown, Dorset
Rest and be Thankful, Argyll and Bute
Rougham, Norfolk
Ryton, Warwickshire
Sandwich, Kent
Scaldwell, Northamptonshire
Shelve, Shropshire
Shop, Devon
Shover's Green, East Sussex
Sillyearn, Moray
Simonsbath, Somerset
Slapton, Buckinghampshire
Snig's End, Gloucestershire
Soar, Carmarthenshire
Sockburn, Darlington
South Flobbets, Aberdeenshire
Sparrowpit, Derbyshire
Spital In The Street, Lincolnshire
Splott, Cardiff
Spott, East Lothian
Staylittle, Powys
Stix, Perth and Kinross
Stop-and-call, Pembrokeshire
Stratton Strawless, Norfolk
Sway, Hampshire
Sweet Appletree, Shropshire
Tarring Neville, East Sussex
Teasses, Fife
The Bog, Shropshire
The Cronk, Isle of Man
Ticklerton, Shropshire
Tongue, East Ayrshire
Top End, Bedfordshire
Toy's Hill, Kent
Tradespark, Orkney
Twelveheads, Cornwall
Underriver, Kent
Unthank, Cumbria
Upend, Cambridgeshire
Upper Tooting, Wandsworth
Warboys, Cambridgeshire
Warcop, Cumbria
Washaway, Cornwall
Watchet, Somerset
Waterhouses, Staffordshire
Wendy, Cambridgeshire
Windy Yet, East Ayrshire
Wressle, North Lincolnshire
Middle Wallop, Hampshire
Wormelow Tump, Herefordshire
Wham, North Yorkshire
Yelling, Cambridgeshire
Yonder Bognie, Aberdeenshire

USA

Candle, Alaska
Kake, Alaska
Mary's Igloo, Alaska
Monkey's Eyebrow, Arizona
Why, Arizona
Bonanza, Colorado
Hasty, Colorado
Hygiene, Colorado
Joes, Colorado
Last Chance, Colorado
Paradox, Colorado
Yellow Jacket, Colorado
Briny Breezes, Florida
Day, Florida
Picnic, Florida
Spuds, Florida
Two Egg, Florida
Birds, Illinois
Energy, Illinois
Normal, Illinois
Oblong, Illinois
Birds Eye, Indiana
Santa Claus, Indiana
Solitude, Indiana
Tingley, Iowa
What Cheer, Iowa
Protection, Kansas
Speed, Kansas
Pumpkin Center, Louisiana
Slaughter, Louisiana
Trout, Louisiana
Waterproof, Louisiana
Hell, Michigan
Paradise, Michigan
Saline, Michigan
Welcome, Minnesota
Hot Coffee, Mississippi
Money, Mississippi
Improve, Mississippi
Shivers, Mississippi
Weed, New Mexico
Zap, North Dakota
Happyland, Oklahoma
Boring, Oregon
Drain, Oregon
Tea, South Dakota
Difficult, Tennessee
Flippin, Tennessee
Spot, Tennessee
Index, Washington
Alloy, West Virginia
Odd, West Virginia

not "http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/place_names.htm" by any chance

Hmmmmmmmmmmm....

Missed the point I think

The idea was town names YOU HAVE SEEN... oh well, there's always one

[quote]QUOTE (l3arx @ May 27 2003, 02:43 PM)


In the UK i drove through a village called Tiddlywink, it consisted of about 5 houses, 

Yeah, it's on the way to Castle Combe.. about 5 mins from where I live....[/quote]

Thats where I was going

Sandy Balls in between Salisbury and Rimgwood

or two I think you'll find if you read the posts

[quote name='rhaines' date='May 27 2003, 03:35 PM']or two I think you'll find if you read the posts [/quote]
But it comes as no surprise that you are the other one Ryan....

[quote name='rhaines' date='May 27 2003, 03:32 PM']not "http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/place_names.htm" by any chance[/quote]
that'll be it



sorry tho guys - was just trying to show some of the others that are around.


my one genuine one though is still C O C K, that is on the way down to Newquay.


Also......did you know that NEWARK is the only place in England that has an anagram of (well,work it out!). I got that from a Jasper Carrot sketch of YEARS ago !

[quote name='tony_hetherington' date='May 27 2003, 02:42 PM'][quote name='rhaines' date='May 27 2003, 03:32 PM'] not "http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/place_names.htm" by any chance[/quote]
that'll be it



sorry tho guys - was just trying to show some of the others that are around.


my one genuine one though is still C O C K, that is on the way down to Newquay.


Also......did you know that NEWARK is the only place in England that has an anagram of (well,work it out!). I got that from a Jasper Carrot sketch of YEARS ago ! [/quote]
LOL, took me a while but pretty apt considering the place name you've spotted

I always thought Five Mile Bottom was unusual (near Newmarket)

Or Bacon End (A120) if you're feeling peckish, but my favorite is still Ugley - home of the Ugley Womens Institute.... until they sussed that one - It's now the WI of Ugley.

Goonhilly, Flushing and Looe
All in Cornwall

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Here goes..........Person unknown

Well, there'a Muff in N.Ireand.

And searching on that I found these wonders of the world...

Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
B@stard* (Norway)
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo -Democratic Republic)
Donk (Belgium)
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
[b]Muff (Northern Ireland)[/b]
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Sh1tlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Stains (Near Paris, France)
Tittybong (Australia)
Turdo (Romania)
****t (Orkney, UK)
****t (Shetland, UK)
W@nkendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
W@nkener (India)
W@nkie (Zimbabwe)
W@nkie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
W@nks River (Nicaragua)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)

theres a W@NKUM on the german - dutch border

and a W@NK in southern germany near Garmisch

[quote name='l3arx' date='May 27 2003, 01:43 PM']Someone sent me a picture of a place in the States called D i c k Lick Springs,

In the UK i drove through a village called Tiddlywink, it consisted of about 5 houses,[/quote]
I went through Tiddlywink the other week - brilliant

Theres a PRATTS BOTTOM near orpington in kent and LYMINGE in kent as well

w@nkdorf - switzerland

In and around Halifax there are:

Shelf

Friendly

and my favourite - Triangle

my lex dealer over here is in a town called Triangle