Odd place names.

[raleighnut]

I always giggle when I cycle through Newtown Unthank.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I forgot about this one, till I saw it in my picture files. it's a lovely quiet little village (more of a hamlet) between Ripley & Pateley Bridge

 

[HLaB]

I remember a tiring day in the saddle, so I had to pop back the next day and check; to my disappointment it had an 'R' in it ;-)

 

[Gasman]

In Aberdeenshire

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Where are they? Never heard of them. heard of pity me though.

Pity Me, No Place and Quaking Houses; the place names of my childhood...

 

[fimm]

There's a Moscow in Ayrshire.
And Tuff in Aberdeenshire - I passed the signpost when I'd been cycling for a while in wet snow, is certainly felt tough!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Pity Me, No Place and Quaking Houses; the place names of my childhood...

Spacey Houses is near Harrogate, which is another odd one


There's a No Mans Land in Cornwall, or is it Devon?

 

[Bodhbh]

Oh go on...

 

[Gravity Aided]

In Illinois, I can go from Winchester to Toledo to Paris in 3 or 4 hours. All much less exotic than their namesakes, I might add.

 

[Oldfentiger]

Pidley cum Fenton,

near St Ives, Cambs

 

[Gravity Aided]

Lincoln, Illinois, was actually inaugurated by the surveyor/lawyer who did the initial layout of the town, Abraham Lincoln. He used a watermelon. I know this, because there is a statue of the watermelon in Lincoln.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11383

 

[chappers1983]

I quite often ride through the village of Nasty in Hertfordshire. Doesn't raise much of a smile when I suggest its the wifes birthplace...........

 

[jack smith]

Pity Me, No Place and Quaking Houses; the place names of my childhood...

Your very local to me then.

 

[youngoldbloke]

You can't beat Paradise for a place-name (near Painswick)

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Your very local to me then.

Not any more hinny. Haven't lived up home since I was five. South Moor, Bloemfontein, and Craghead as a tiny nipper then back to Sussex where I was born.

Will be up for a visit to scatter my late Dad's ashes at some point in the next few weeks, back for the first time since The Fridays rode LonJOG.