Strange Brit Placenames

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Goggs

Guru
Dull can be found in Scotland and it's twinned with, wait for it.. Boring in the USA :laugh:
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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...in Ayrshire
(where they pronounce it muss-COW)

New York three quarters of a mile
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It's just 'Denver' - no Colorado. Those who done a Reggie Ride to Kings Lynn will have visited Denver.
It's visited about every other month on KLWNBUG rides too. Next on the outbound leg of the arboretum ride starting at Lynnsport 9am Sat 22 Oct if anyone wants to come along :smile: although that time we won't be going as far as the sluices and the notorious stretch of man-made river that is made to flow backwards to supply water to Essex.

Near Falkirk we've got this...

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although the strap line is a tad optimistic.
At least this one's near the coast:
Going to California
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MontyVeda

a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
Not far from Giggleswick we've got...
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Fantastic!
 

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mcshroom

Bionic Subsonic
And not far from Three Cocks is Lord Hereford's Knob.

Some of you may have ridden it.

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I went walking there on a foggy New Years Day in 2009, and couldn't find Lord Hereford's Knob :biggrin:

We've already had Dull and Three Cocks unfortunately so I can't use those photos. Still got this one though : -
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Oh, and I've got Laid :biggrin:
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nickyboy

Norven Mankey
Bare (near Morecambe)

...and I remember being told off by my parents for sniggering when being told we would be climbing up Brown Willy on our Cornish holiday
 
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