Silly place names

[DRM]

As well as Condom in France, the kids took great delight in telling everyone where they were going on holiday that year.

 

[Hyslop]

Not forgetting Pity Me in County Durham.

 

[Mattonsea]

Tiptoe is just up the road from us .

 

[ayceejay]

Most of the villages in Quebec are named after saints, when my son came to visit he couldn't believe there was ever a St Kevin.
As for tourists rendition of local towns I was once asked directions to Mal Mes Bury - it took me a minute.
Which reminds me of an old friends favourite joke : he was walking along the road one day when a man wound down his car window and said "Leatherhead"? as quick as a flash my friend said "Fish face".

 

[Roadhump]

I cycle through Sandy Balls of a weekend ?

Took the family on holiday there a couple of times many years ago....apologies if that doesn't really add to the silly name debate

 

[screenman]

Chapel Hill, which happens to be as flat as a witches.

 

[BrumJim]

There's a minor settlement in Scotland (Grampians) called Lost. I have a photo of the sign somewhere.

 

[Roadhump]

There is a place just outside Liverpool called Lydiate, People who live there and who annoy their friends and relatives are often referred to as "that Idiot from Lydiate".

 

[slowmotion]

In 1941, they built the world's first megawatt wind turbine on a hill in Vermont....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

There's a minor settlement in Scotland (Grampians) called Lost. I have a photo of the sign somewhere.

This photo, any idea where it is?

 

[John the Canuck]

south of Glasgow there's an area called ''HALFWAY'' ......always struck me as being neither here nor there.......................

next village to my farm is called ......''BOGHEAD''

 

[Sillyoldman]

Remember this place from a Paul Young album sleeve in the 80's.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Ramsbottom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsbottom

 

[TheDoctor]

We've got Nasty a few miles away - the local CTC does an Ugley Nasty ride in the spring. I've ridden through Spycker in France, it's just south of Dunkerque. Sadly my ride round Provence doesn't look to have any truly unhinged placenames, just the aptly named Apt.

 

[TheDoctor]

There's a town in Donegal called Muff.

It has a diving club. No, really, it does.