You’ve got Ring o’ Bells in Ormskirk up by me I find that funny.
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
You weren’t too far from Gnosall either. Good easy to pronounce British place names
You’re not far from Haughton, Moreton, Broughton or Norton either!
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
I drove through Lickey End earlier today
Wetwang nearly caused an accident when we were driving previously.
I’m glad you at least admit it openly
My favourite in the country is Lickey End
Waiting for our American cousins to chip in with their mad place names, such as Tuskawuskawabadoo, etc.
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 🤷♂️
Attempt pronunciation of the following:
Happisburgh
Cholmondeley
Puncknowle
Rampisham
Woolfardisworthy
Have you heard of Bitchfield
Representing Cumbria we have Great Cockup, and of course Cockermouth.
Always had a fondness for Giggleswick too, just sounds such a happy little place.
Donkey town is a personal favourite of mine!
I need to live there my nickname at work is the lizard! 😂
Shitterton is one of my favourites
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>
Regularly drive through ‘Fenny Bentley’
I mean, a few miles SW of sandwich is ham
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.
Yeah, but that’s what makes the UK to interesting. The history of those names is fascinating.
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 🤷🏼)
Ting Tong in Devon
Crapstone ditto.
Nembnett Thrubwell (Sp?) Somerset I think.
Curry Mallet, my neighbouring parish.
Wetwang always tickles me
No wonder that, unlike the US, we dont tend to use place names as people names.
England? Don’t go there. Tis a silly place.
I live between Thong and Pratts Bottom
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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Nice garden centre in Tong (if it’s that one).
May I suggest playing [OTTD?](https://www.openttd.org/)
You’ve got Ring o’ Bells in Ormskirk up by me I find that funny.
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
You weren’t too far from Gnosall either. Good easy to pronounce British place names
You’re not far from Haughton, Moreton, Broughton or Norton either!
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
I drove through Lickey End earlier today
Wetwang nearly caused an accident when we were driving previously.
I’m glad you at least admit it openly
My favourite in the country is Lickey End
Waiting for our American cousins to chip in with their mad place names, such as Tuskawuskawabadoo, etc.
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 🤷♂️
Attempt pronunciation of the following:
Happisburgh
Cholmondeley
Puncknowle
Rampisham
Woolfardisworthy
Have you heard of Bitchfield
Representing Cumbria we have Great Cockup, and of course Cockermouth.
Always had a fondness for Giggleswick too, just sounds such a happy little place.
Donkey town is a personal favourite of mine!
I need to live there my nickname at work is the lizard! 😂
Shitterton is one of my favourites
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>
Regularly drive through ‘Fenny Bentley’
I mean, a few miles SW of sandwich is ham
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.
Yeah, but that’s what makes the UK to interesting. The history of those names is fascinating.
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 🤷🏼)
Ting Tong in Devon
Crapstone ditto.
Nembnett Thrubwell (Sp?) Somerset I think.
Curry Mallet, my neighbouring parish.
Wetwang always tickles me
No wonder that, unlike the US, we dont tend to use place names as people names.
England? Don’t go there. Tis a silly place.
I live between Thong and Pratts Bottom
Never thought I’d see the day when my tiny ass village no one has ever heard of would be mentioned lmao