Silly place names

[Berk on a Bike]

Stage 2 of this year's Tour passed close to Upperthong and Netherthong (known collectively round here as The Thongs).

 

[Hacienda71]

Having a brother called Andrew makes this hill which I cycle past rather amusing.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3022161

On holiday in Yorkshire my kids found Butt Lane in Howarth and Fanny Street in Saltaire very amusing.

 

[nickyboy]

Bare used to be a village and now is part of Morecambe.

Much hilarity in perusing local newspaper headlines
http://www.thelancasterandmorecambecitizen.co.uk/news/2293394.print/

 

[Easytigers]

Road near me is called 'Bell End' some of the local cyclists did the now infamous 'Lands End to Bell End Challenge' ...has something of a ring to it (sorry couldn't help it!)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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There's also an 'Idle Athletic Club', an equal contradiction in terms!

On holiday in Yorkshire my kids found Butt Lane in Howarth and Fanny Street in Saltaire very amusing.

There's also a Butts Lane, at Lumby, just off the A63, between Garforth & Monk Fryston
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2628692

In Pontefract, there's a SlutWell Lane
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/246530

 

[stephec]

Well there's also a small village in Holland called "Rectum" which is not so far from "Enter".

That one trumps all the others.

 

[Mo1959]

There is a village in Perthshire called Dull that is twinned with a town in Oregon called Boring.

 

[Andy_R]

Within a few miles of each other in Newcastle: Kenton, Denton, Benton.... and Longbenton, which sounds more painful.

No Place and Wideopen.

There's a dentist's practice in Wideopen... how fantastic's that!

dont forget Quaking Houses and Wallish Walls

 

[stephec]

There's a place near Bolton called Nob end.

 

[Dave 123]

Ab Kettleby always makes me smile.

Although I have a filthy little mind it was my sister that said that out of her 4 brothers it was only me who could live in Hardwick. Until then, I hadn't noticed!

 

[Drago]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankers_Corner,_Oregon

 

[hoopdriver]

I often cycle down Dumb Woman Lane, near Winchelsea. I have been to Twatt in Orkney, and the Twatt in Shetland too. I once nearly bought a house on Kook Street in a small town in South Australia. I have been to Dull Centre (Wyoming) Bland (West Virginia) and Boring (Oregon). I have also been to Intercourse, Pennsylvania and nearby Bird-in-Hand.

I have also been to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and North Pole, Alaska. While in Alaska, a couple hours south of Fairbanks, I stopped off at a roadhouse called Slippery Dick's Halfway Inn. It had a chainsaw sculpture of two bears fornicating in the front yard and a whole lot of very earthy redneck humour tacked up around the place. Class.

A couple years ago I went to the not-too-hard-to-spell À in Norway. It was near Hell.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Well there's also a small village in Holland called "Rectum" which is not so far from "Enter".

Inhabited by proctologists.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Derby has a Barf Close. Funnily enough, there's a pub just up the road...

 

[Hacienda71]

Who could forget when the guys from Jackass went to Mianus in Conneticut.