Strange Brit Placenames

[Rooster1]

Some of these made me choke on my Jaffa Cakes

Brown Edge, Staffordshire
Great Snoring, Norfolk
Pity Me, County Durham

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/only-in-...ampaign=tmgspk_plr_1437_AmlKbL62PZsz&plr=1#!/
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PS, I pass Christmas Common at least once a week.

 

[hatler]

Wetwang, Lincs.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Wetwang, Lincs.

I beg your pudding.

Wetwang is in the Yorkshire Wolds.

There are lots of fun placenames. Wigwig and Homer had a book (featuring two pigs called Wigwig and Homer) written about them.

And in Nottinghamshire you can find Sheepy and Bunny.

 

[Dayvo]

Scunthorpe

 

[hatler]

I beg your pudding.

Wetwang is in the Yorkshire Wolds.

There are lots of fun placenames. Wigwig and Homer had a book (featuring two pigs called Wigwig and Homer) written about them.

And in Nottinghamshire you can find Sheepy and Bunny.

Apologies. Brain fade.

 

[mjr]

I enjoy ones that are consistently mispronounced:
Cogenhoe, Desborough and Towcester, all Northamptonshire;
Congresbury, Somerset;
Postwick, Setchey and Wymondham, all Norfolk.

 

[Sixmile]

Muff, Donegal.

Not British but hopefully it's acceptable.

 

[Globalti]

Wetwang, Lincs.

Were you thinking about Hardhorn near Blackpool?

 

[Andy_R]

Also in County Durham: Wallish Walls, Quaking Houses, No Place (I lived there for a few years)

 

[Andy_R]

I enjoy ones that are consistently mispronounced:
Cogenhoe, Desborough and Towcester, all Northamptonshire;
Congresbury, Somerset;
Postwick, Setchey and Wymondham, all Norfolk.

So how would you pronounce Ulgham in Northumberland?

 

[Globalti]

I had an excellent lunch at this charming restaurant in Cape Town last week; it was formerly the residence of the Italian ambassador to Cape Town whose name was....

 

[Banjo]

 

[Nibor]

Twatt

 

[Nibor]

 

[Rooster1]

My goodness, this is becoming more like Trumps locker room by the minute