One of the place names that has always amused me is Moscow Farm.Why?Well,because it stands just outside RAF Spadeadam in North East Cumbria.In the early days of the Cold War,the Blue Streak rocket was developed here(very apt name,if you streaked up here youd be blue as well)therefore it was a very hush-hush sort of place,boffins in tweed jackets inside and suspicious looking men in astrakhan hats outside.Nowadays it performs a role for NATO fast jets but honestly,talk about the enemy at the gates!
Silly place names
- Thread starter Donger
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On a slightly different tack, I've always been enchanted by the (IMHO) beautiful and poetic names given to landscape features around Glen Trool in Galloway on the OS 1:50K maps. Here's a few of my favourites....
- Rhinns of Kells,
- Rig of the Jarkness.
- Neive of the Spit.
- Long Loch of the Dungeon and Round Loch of the Dungeon.
- Dry Loch
- Buckdas of Cairnbaber.
- Rig of the Gloon
Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
Somerset has some good ones. My favourites are the villages of Wales and Sea. I can say, truthfully and with a straight face, that I've cycled through Sea, and cycled from one side of Wales to the other in under 10 minutes. If you like your rides hot and spicy you can always go through North Curry, Curry Rivel, or Curry Mallet.
Dorset's Piddle valley has a micro-brewery so you can drink beer from the Piddle Brewery. Dorset is also full of Puddles, the most famous of which is Tolpuddle of martyrs fame. The Puddles are, as you'd expect, located along the river Piddle.
Dorset's Piddle valley has a micro-brewery so you can drink beer from the Piddle Brewery. Dorset is also full of Puddles, the most famous of which is Tolpuddle of martyrs fame. The Puddles are, as you'd expect, located along the river Piddle.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Nook & Cow Brow (near Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria).
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
In Illinois, we have Nottingham Woods. Just in case you wondered where they had gone.
There is also a Frog City, and two Frogtowns.
There is also a Frog City, and two Frogtowns.
Yellow Fang
Legendary Member
- Location
- Reading
Somewhere in East Anglia
Tin Pot
Guru
Stephenite
Membå
- Location
- OslO
Amazing. You ought to learn a scandinavian language. You've grasped the basics.
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
There's a place called "Skinners Bottom" in Cornwall !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
The Puddles were Piddles until, urban legend has it, the prudish Victorians changed the names. I suspect they just got corrupted over time, though.
Near Corfe Mullen there's a Happy Bottom and a Far Corfe. Not a village, but there's a Whammy Syke in North Yorkshire. Once Brewed and Twice Brewed, near Hadrian's Wall, are great names. I always thought Roseberry Topping sounds more like a cup cake than a hill. On the No Man's Land theme, there's a house in Chester called Nowhere, which is allegedly where the Beatles got 'Nowhere Man' from, and there's a No Place in Durham. Tynesiders seem to enjoy naming places after modes of transport - Byker, Walker. And wasn't there a mining village in Durham called Number One?
Jimmy Doug
If you know what's good for you ...
Don't know how I ended up here. Something I said?
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ShooglyDougie
Veteran
- Location
- Gore Glen
A friend of mine lives here, http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/bellenden-gardens-shaped-like-a-giant-willy-1-3321143
A town planner with a sence of humour.
A town planner with a sence of humour.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Flying visit: Has anyone mentioned Land of Nod in Yorkshire or that there is a Nob End in Bolton.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
I like this one - just for the fun of the ach's
