Odd place names.

[jack smith]

Ahh I currently live in greencroft but grew up in lanchester/satley

 

[Banjo]

Theres a Bethlehem in Carmarthenshire.

 

[Dirk]

There's a 'Bell End' near Belbroughton in north Worcestershire. It's just up the road from the previously mentioned 'Lickey End'.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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

Not a place, but a farmstead, however, with an equally serene name




And, not too far away, we have the other end of the spectrum.............

 

[Tim Hall]

There's a 'Bell End' near Belbroughton in north Worcestershire. It's just up the road from the previously mentioned 'Lickey End'.

There was a competition a few years ago to name a new stand at Manchester City. Some norty boys thought it would a great laugh to name it after Colin Bell (which in the end it was), in the hope that it would become The Bell End. Frothing reactionary Anne Atkins made a reference to it on Thought For The Day, the first time I've heard a knob gag in that slot.

 

[Dirk]

 

[Dirk]

Upton on Severn, Worcestershire.

 

[Gasman]

 

[Broadside]

Mount Browne just outside Guildford, it's the HQ of Surrey police.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Nook & Cow Brow near J36 M6.

 

[Eribiste]

There really is a village called Llandewi Brefi, in Ceredigion, Wales. I also once mounted Lord Hereford's Knob, not very far from errr, Hereford.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Henpeck, Illinois.Right on the border between the townships of Rutland and Hampshire.

 

[Yorksman]

A path goes under the railway here. It was always known by this name but eventually the council changed it to Tittle Cott. Due to public protest however, it was renamed:

In York, Grape Lane has an interesting history. If you are offended by crude sexual language, do not follow the link.

 

[Yorksman]

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A path goes under the railway here. It was always known by this name but eventually the council changed it to Tittle Cott. Due to public protest however, it was renamed:

In York, Grape Lane has an interesting history. If you are offended by crude sexual language, do not follow the link.

Tickle Cock Bridge is in Castleford

There's also a Grape Lane in Whitby, which allegedly has similar origins

On a similar, yet divergent line, we have a young lady whose surname is abbreviated by some staff to 'Mab' (or 'Mabs')

She was pleased when I told her that Mab was the Queen of the Fairies (Midsummer Nights Dream?), & jokingly liked the princess/royalty connotations

She was, however, very much less pleased, when I also told her that 'Mab' was a derogatory name for a prostitute, in Victorian times

(There's a MabGate, in Leeds)