Silly place names

[Gravity Aided]

In Illinois, We have
Argo Fay, Aroma Park,Benevolent Heights, two towns called Birds,Bulldog Crossing,Castle Fin,Cereal,Cravat,and Crisp.
That's just the first 3 letters of the alphabet.




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[machew]

A town in Austria that keeps getting their signs stolen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/farking,_Austria

 

[Easytigers]

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

I Googled it...it is true!!!

 

[slowmotion]

A town in Austria that keeps getting their signs stolen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/farking,_Austria

We all piled out of a dodgy car on the way back from Austria in about 1971 to pose next to the KNAW town sign in Bavaria. Read that backwards. It might defend you from eternal damnation We giggled a lot.

 

[steveindenmark]

I used to be based in Hannover, Germany. I passed this place a lot of times on the way to Holland.





There is also Penis tone back home in Yorkshire.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

My early cycling days were often spent in Worcestershire, visiting such places as the Piddles, Flyford Flavell, and my favourite, Upton Snodsbury.

Visiting Aberdeenshire this year I was most amused to ride through Towie.

 

[Venod]

In Swaledale we have Crackpot .not far away in Arkengarthdale we have Booze, if your visiting either don't forget your granny ring.

 

[PaulSB]

I diverted from my Ride of the Roses just so I could say I've been to Wetwang in Yorkshire.

We lived near Acock's Green many years ago and used to commute to Lickey End near Bromsgrove.

Plus I now work in Lower Peover.

All this is true and a touch worrying.

 

[steveindenmark]

I am planning our LEJOG for next year and a first night stop at Goonhaven is tempting. I wonder what the inhabitants are like?

 

[BrumJim]

I Googled it...it is true!!!

So did I.

Never before have I seen a web site that is so clearly taking advantage of a smutty innuendo without giving any hint as to the fact that they understand it.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Not exactly funny names, but in Pembrokeshire the hamlets of Woodstock and Bethlehem are just a few miles apart.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not forgetting Pity Me in County Durham.

And a 'No Mans Land' in Devon,or possibly Cornwall, I forget which

East Yorkshire has a 'Land Of Nod'

Hull has a 'Land Of Green Ginger'

 

[HF2300]

... such as Little Sodbury and Barton-in-the-Beans. Another favourite of mine is the Nottinghamshire village of Gotham. My mother-in-law once spoiled that one a bit for me by explaining that it is pronounced "Goat-am". This, however, never really diminishes my glee every time I drive up to Nottingham to find that some wag has, yet again, adjusted the road sign in black marker pen so that it reads "Gotham City"...

Old Sodbury as well. When I lived in Nottingham I was told that the locals made jokes about the Gothamites and the foolish and pointless things they did, who were all supposed to be daft, and that it was where the nickname of Gotham for New York was derived.

There are some Piddles in Dorset, all down the Piddle Valley along the River Piddle, of course. Then there's Ryme Intrinseca. There are quite a few Petty Frances, which I always wondered about the derivation of. No Man's Land's as well; there's one near Romsey. And Richard's a star, because I was just trying to remember the Land of Nod and couldn't.

 

[craigwend]

 

[AndyRM]

Penistone.