we live in a nonsense country full of nonsense towns

by glytxh

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  1. I live in Cornwall, not far from the border with Devon. There are some beauts to be found down here. Some examples:

    Splatt

    Hatt

    Minions

    Catchfrench

    Shop

    Chipshop

    Foghanger

    Chaddlehanger

    Crapstone

    Broadwoodwidger

    Harrowbarrow

    Crafthole

    Narkurs

    Doddycross

    No Man’s Land

    Crumplehorn

    Slaughter Bridge

    Beeny

    Bush

    Titson

  2. The original names of towns are even more insane. 
    Nottingham was originally Snottingaham as it was a Hamlet that housed the Snotingas who were a Anglo Saxon clan 

  3. Waiting for our American cousins to chip in with their mad place names, such as Tuskawuskawabadoo, etc.

  4. Come to Australia. Have a couple Woodenbong then we’ll go chill at Wattanobbi. Don’t like it there??? We can go to, mossy nipple bend, or prominent nob, or boobs flat maybe? OK, let’s go to Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya, bring your welsh friends, they have a similarly loose relationship with letters. They probably need a piss anyway 🤷‍♂️

  5. Representing Cumbria we have Great Cockup, and of course Cockermouth.

    Always had a fondness for Giggleswick too, just sounds such a happy little place.

  6. You can see the actually psychical Victorian grave and headstone of Little Nell at Tong church, despite her being a fictional character from Dickens Old Curiosity Shop. <SPOILER> She dies at the church in the book</SPOILER>

  7. Weston under Lizard it the location of Western Park where the V festival used to be held and also where the G8 summit as held with Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Boris Yeltsin and Helmut Kohl. With untold held secret meetings.

  8. The uk has “fingeringhoe”!

    I mean with all of the horrible stuff that is going on in the world, we still have silly (and sometimes difficult to pronounce) town names.

    Sure, they probably have legit etymological and historical meanings, but the silly laughs that they can give some of us can be catharsis in a fucked up world.

    (Or. … its late, I’m lacking sleep, and talking bollocks 🤷🏼)

  9. Ting Tong in Devon
    Crapstone ditto.
    Nembnett Thrubwell (Sp?) Somerset I think.
    Curry Mallet, my neighbouring parish.

  10. Never thought I’d see the day when my tiny ass village no one has ever heard of would be mentioned lmao

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