Strange Brit Placenames

[Deleted member 35268]

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....

Looks like the couple are leaving by the backdoor then

 

[Johnsop99]

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

Pratts Bottom (Kent)

 

[raleighnut]

Newtown Unthank in Leicestershire always makes me smile>

 

[Arjimlad]

I often take a ride up through Tubb's Bottom, myself.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1rwsYOBeufh9M8Mkvp4QivF-vBpQ&hl=en_US

 

[Ajax Bay]

it was formerly the residence of the Italian ambassador to Cape Town whose name was....

Incontinentia Buttox?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

...in Ayrshire
(where they pronounce it muss-COW)

 

[ufkacbln]

Pratts Bottom (Kent)

Also in Kent is Peat Bottom, with the sign being changed to Pert Bottom


There is also the famous sign on a road to two local villages that reads

Ham
Sandwich

Edited:

YERTIZ

 

[ufkacbln]

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...in Ayrshire
(where they pronounce it muss-COW)

There're is a Denver Colorado... in Norfolk

 

[Kernow Cyclista]

In Cornwall...
Splatt
Marazanvose
Gweek
Mousehole
Grumbla
Brane
Cripplesease
Little Sinns
Slaughter Bridge .....etc etc

 

[Kernow Cyclista]

There's also Greensplatt, which sounds particularly unsavoury to cycle through...

 

[Nibor]

Scunthorpe

I for similar reasons like Clitheroe

 

[raleighnut]

I for similar reasons like Clitheroe

Twinned with Penistone ?

 

[russellchapman]

Fingringhoe in Essex. Known locally as fingerinhoe

 

[glasgowcyclist]

There're is a Denver Colorado... in Norfolk

Near Falkirk we've got this...

although the strap line is a tad optimistic.

 

[SWSteve]

Westward Ho!
yoh can drive through Pennsylvania when heading to the motorway from Bath if you please