Placenames Revisited.

[Whippet]

fantastic site!

Seems to be a running theme near me....

White Knobs Way
Bonar Road
Mincing Lane
Titsey Park
Pratt's Bottom
Balls Cross
Cock Pond

 

[majorbloodnock]

Probably a bit of duplication here, but I still had on my PC a list of the top 100 questionable placenames, so here it is. Hopefully I won't get into too much trouble with any profanity filters.

Jeffries Passage, Surrey
Prince Albert Court, Surrey
Nork Rise, Surrey
Brown Willy, Cornwall
Great Tosson, Northumberland
Trump Street, London
St. Mellons, Cardiff
Percy Passage, London
Booty Lane, North Yorkshire
Nether Wallop, Hampshire
Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
Mudchute, London
Juggs Close, East Sussex
Cockermouth Green, Newcastle
Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire
Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk
Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
Titlington Mount, Northumberland
Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
Hooker Road, Norwich
Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
Ugley, Essex
Pratts Bottom, Kent
Ramsbottom Lane, Greater Manchester
Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Upper Dicker, East Sussex
Swell, Somerset
Bladda, Paisley
Snatchup, Hertfordshire
Spital in the Street, Lincolnshire
Shingay cum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
Pump Alley, Middlesex
Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
Long Lover Lane, Halifax
East Breast, Inverclyde
Dicks Mount, Suffolk
Staines , Surrey
Crapstone, Devon
Three Cocks, Powys
Feltwell, Norfolk
Pant, Shropshire
Balls Cross, West Sussex
Ogle Close, Merseyside
Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
North Piddle, Worcestershire
Mincing Lane, London
Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
Winkle Street, Southampton
Wham Bottom Lane, Lancashire
Upperthong, West Yorkshire
Tosside, Lancashire
The Furry, Cornwall
Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
Lickers Lane, Merseyside
Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
Boghead, Ayrshire
The Bush, Buckinghamshire
Hill o'Many Stanes, Scotland
Grope Lane, Shropshire
Willey, Warwickshire
Happy Bottom, Dorset
Feltham Close, Hampshire
The Knob, Oxfordshire
Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
Crotch Cresent, Oxfordshire
Blairmuckhole & Forestdyke road, Lanarkshire
Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
Pork Lane, Essex
Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
Wetwang, East Yorkshire
Scratchy Bottom, Dorset
Swallow Passage, London
Lickey End, Worcestershire
Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
Spanker Lane, Derbyshire
Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
Lickfold, West Sussex
Dick Court, Lanarkshire
Beaver Close, Surrey
Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire,
Slag Lane, Merseyside
Shitterton, Dorset
Back Passage, London
Fingringhoe, Essex
Muff, Northern Ireland
Sandy Balls, Hampshire
Twatt, Orkney
Bell End, Birmingham
Minge Lane, Worcestershire
Cocks, Cornwall

 

[Fnaar]

Muff Dale, Yorkshire
Breasty Ho!, Cornwall
Knobby Head, Devon
Labiarum, Northumberland
O'Dwyer's Mound, Dublin
Backly-cum-Facely, Hampshire
@rsehampton, E.Sussex
:?: I may have made all of these up... :?:

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Frottage Street, York
Gusset Lane, Cantebury
Fiveknuckleshuffle Road, Birmingham

:?: :?:

 

[Mr Phoebus]

F
Fiveknuckleshuffle Road, Birmingham

:?: :?:

That's just off Pullpuddin Lane, where Mrs Palm & her 5 lovely daughters reside.

Prestatyn... Caerphilly.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

I live right by Hampton-in-Arden but riding back from the Cotswolds, my friend and I laughed at the place named Arden's Grafton.... is that another name for a strapadicktome?

 

[Melvil]

Erm...on the way to Schiehallion last weekend we passed a signpost for a village called 'Dull.' Damn my lack of camera, damn it !

 

[Arch]

Best one on the list for near me is probably Wetwang...

I think the late unlamented Richard Whiteley was Mayor of Wetwang for a while...

More famous in my circles for the Iron Age chariot burial found there...

 

[Elmer Fudd]

Close to me are:-
Pity Me
No Place
Spital Tongues
Fanny Barks
Hairy Side
Slag Hill
Cock Bush Hall Farm
Shitligton Head
Crackpot
Cock Heads
Bitchagreen
Cock Play

In Worcestershire is Pink Green (can they not make their minds up ?)

And on the way to Newquay is a place called Indian Queens !

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

This is for my parents' postcode. Some of these are hilarious:

Looks like your parents must live near me. I live in Urmston, Manchester with an M41 postcode... and pretty much all of those appear on my list of strange nearby places.

My parents have some nice ones too in the depths of Derbyshire:

Jughole wood
Hole in the Wall
Cottagers
Butthole Lane
Dirty Gutter
Shatton Moor
Butty Moss
Penistone
Foul End

and the marvellous sounding...

Shafton Two Gates

One can only wonder at the gymnastic capabilities of the people who named the last place!!

 

[Kirstie]

My parents live in Ramsbottom. Genuinely! In actual fact for those sniggering people amongst you, Ramsbottom translates as 'valley of wild garlic'. Rams = garlic; bottom = valley. So there. And yes it's a very garlicky place.
Not too far from Urmston though...

 

[Big Bren]

Green Dicks Lane in Lancaster - I drove up it yesterday and was fortunate enough not to see one.

Bren

 

[alecstilleyedye]

not a place name as such, but there is a pub we go past on a saturday run sometimes that changed its name from "the gay dog inn" to "the dog inn". it has a sign for the dog inn car park

 

[johnny 2 chins]

Has anybody mentioned Cuckoos Knob so far?

 

[Pete]

Well, I know the picture-postcard village of Fulking (nestling at the foot of the Downs near Brighton) well - often cycle through it - for some unfathomable reason the place-name signs as you enter the village are on 12-foot posts, not the waist-height ones more usual in Sussex...

What many non-local people, intent on a visit, may not realise at first, is that the road leading into the village from the north carries a dire warning - just in case - er - what is inspired by the placename goes badly wrong. It's called...

...Clappers Lane.

(as many people probably know there's a much more dramatic example in Austria)