Silly place names

[jayonabike]

I do chuckle to my self every time I drive past Cockbush Avenue, Hertford in my lorry.

 

[guitarpete247]

I think this is where Santa lives .

 

[Gravity Aided]

Ah, that's a different area though; I was thinking of Somerset Camels. Might well be the same derivation though.

Pennsylvania, on the A46 near Bath. Valley of Desolation in North Yorkshire. And a couple of Gloucestershire ones: Cold Slad and Catbrain

Illinois has a Pennsylvania Corners.

 

[morrisman]

This is where my MiL should live

http://goo.gl/JKU9ib

 

[Cubist]

Idle, in Bradford.
Youth Club may still be open.

The Working Men's Club is oversubscribed.

True story. The police station in Idle was renamed Eccleshill because the then chief constable refused to allow it to be called Idle Police Station.

 

[Cubist]

"Reet" in Belgium. So the banner reads "Welcome to Reet".

However, in Dutch "Reet" is slang for arse-crack, so the banner can also be read "Welcome to our arse-crack".


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Going off-topic for a moment, as a Dutch speaker you'll appreciate the hilarity caused when the rap artist " Ruf Kut " put up posters advertising his tour of the Netherlands.

 

[Cubist]

Have we done Bolton Percy, near Tadcaster? Uncomfortable prosthetics......

Clenchwarton near Kings Lynn always makes me think of Preparation H.

 

[Archie_tect]

It's really Ash, but the signwriter was strangled as he wrote it...

Blubberhouses. How could I forget Blubberhouses. Particularly after the TdF, when it became the Cote de Blubberhouses.

It was the Forestry Commission's Marketing person's fault, they shouldn't have phoned to order the new sign with a cough....

 

[HF2300]

Pyewipe. Even better, Moody Lane, Pyewipe.

Donna Nook.

Ugglebarnby.

Great Fryup.

Wetwang.

Robin's Bottom

Thwing

 

[Berties]

My IT man thought this was funny enough to text to me while on a job in town!

 

[subaqua]

Or how about this:

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I have a picture of my wife, heavily pregnant standing next to the sign for cocks or cox as it is on some signs in perranporth

 

[PaulSB]

I regularly ride on Ralph's Wife's Lane near Banks, Southport. Always makes me smile.

 

[GaryA]

Pity me
Durham

I knew someone who worked at Pity me water works

So when asked where he worked.....

 

[Cyclopathic]

There's Frisby On The Wreak near Leicester.

 

[Arjimlad]

I always like the sound of Nempnett Thrubwell. It sounds rather naughty !

My Nempnetts only Thrubwell after over 50 miles on the bike.

Then there's Upham, and Lower Upham in Hampshire.

A PC Fawcett was allegedly posted to the Police house in Upham.

The force standing instruction for answering the telephone was to give surname and station in that order.

(the above may be a myth!)