I was reminded the other day, when we first moved to Surrey/Kent borders in 1988, we viewed a house in Pratts Bottom. I think we discounted it simply because of the name of the place.
Near to us here now we have Greasby.
But my favourites are Windpassing (at least three of these in both Austria and Germany), and Titz, also in Germany.
For a road name there is Butt Hole Road in Conisborough near Doncaster, and Butt Hole Lane in Shepshed , Leics. (I am sure our Leicester friends will confirm).
Have you come across any funny placenames or road names?

There's a village in, I think, County Durham called No Place. And there's a road called the A55 (snigger).

Ethiopia...

I'd like to live near Thong (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=e...&iwloc=addr)

There's a village in East Anglia called Ugley. Not sure I'd like to live there.

One of Ugley's organisations is the Ugley Women's Institute. Its members became so annoyed with all the jokes about them that they changed its name to "The Women's Institute of Ugley".

We have a Butt Lane near to us - dates from the days when it was used by medieval archers for practising their shooting at the "butts"!

There is a farm near us called Boghole. I wander who named that??

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There's a village in East Anglia called Ugley. Not sure I'd like to live there.

Yes indeed, actually its just north of Bishops Stortford, west of Stansted Airport, close to my daughter.



Yes its the road along the North Wales Coast that would lead to Petrat !

I would not like to live in Piddle. Why is the A55 funny by the way? What have I missed all these years?

I think the idea is if you imagine the 5s were S's....young minds these days...ha ha!

Don't tell bobifier but there is a Wellyhole Street in Oldham.

I think its the river that is the Piddle in Dorset, though there is a town called Piddletrenthide, the main town is Puddletown, it got corrupted. Carol might confirm.

I might if I knew but I don't!

Yes, it is the River Piddle...

Ha! I have a friend who lives in Pratts Bottom, fsharpminor! (Only she calls it Halstead ).

There is a village in Northamptonshire which used to be called Pisford until the Victorians decided to add a 't' in between the 'i' and the 's' (spoilsports).

Island off the west coast of Scotland called Muck (from the Gaelic muic, meaning pig).

Inclining slightly to the left of on-topicness, there was an old signpost in Lincolnshire which said "To Mavis Enderby and Old Bolingbroke". Someone had written underneath " ... the gift of a son".

This reminds me of the village of Loose in Kent and their WI...

H-ell, Michigan ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Michigan

WHICH reminds me of the apple variety (yes - this is definitely straying from the topic)

Pink Lady.

And you have pre-packed Pink Lady, (they are the ones in little polystyrene trays)

and you have Loose Pink Lady

I had a pink lady the other day ! And she was bought loose ! (at Tesco!)

Sorry if Im monopolising my own thread,
An office colleague has told me the 'ultimate' is 20 miles NNW of Salzburg in Austria. A good map will find it , but Im not posting it here! Its certainly on my Microsoft Autoroute.

When I was a teenager holidaying in the West Country, I informed my family that we were about to drive through a village with an 'interesting' name. Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for the inhabitants, there was a speck of dirt on my map, so what I thought was a 't' was actually an 'r'. The village was called Shirwell.

Yes, I know where you speak of.

Could that be Pistdorf - if so I've been there!

There's also ###### in Norway (been there too).

Edit - Won't even let me type it! That's H.E.L.L.

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Wrong try again

I live near Shepshed, but never actually been. Will ask a friend who lives there. Fluteandbassoon will probably know.

there is a small village beside the town i live in called Benderloch. haha.

I think it's probaly me you shouldn't tell and I don't really feel excited about welly holes. Trapping the poor innocent wellies. How cruel

Was there not a place called "Piddle-on-the-Marsh"?? Or has it changed its name?

Oh - there's a road in a town (technically city really) near us called Drip Road...........

Now there is a lane called Honeypot Lane off the A1 somewhere - I always fancied living there..... sounds like Winnie the Pooh country.... cute!!

Penistone, near Sheffield.

I was waiting to see who'd come up with that one !

I live about two miles from Thong! My friend lives in Thong Lane

People say it must be dreary living in Graves-end because of the..er graves. But it's not too bad really..ok..I lie..

There's a place called Husbands Bosworth near Market Harborough.

And there's another place called Norton Juxta Twycross near Tamworth.

I would rather live on Paradise Lane in Whassett near Kendal

Car Expert

Crapstone. Just north of Plymouth, on the very western edge of Dartmoor.

Locally pronounced Crab-ston

Isn't there a place in Cumbria called Prospect?
I remember weather forecasters saying "... and rain in prospect.." and me thinking "glad I don't live there!"

and I think there must be a place somewhere called Jeopardy - cos I remember newreaders saying there were jobs in Jeopardy, and thinking gosh everyone will be going there to find work ...

Loggerheads

We've looked on the map before and there are lots of Piddle places!


Norton Juxta Twycross is cooool! Near Twycross zoo and me! My friend lives there and says in the morning all she can hear is the gorillas from the zoo.

Foulridge, pronounced 'full-ridge' locally....

I also used to have bother getting the town name 'Clitheroe' past a web censor, it would object terribly to the start of the name.

My friend lives in Jacks Bottom. Think that's the best I can come up with though...
My address actually just sounds comical though

Just found on a website a an apparently famous sign post that's apparently situated in Kent which has a place called Ham being pointed to and immediately after a place called Sanwich. (For the slower ones here, it appears to read Ham Sandwich )

Yes- I know both places. Unfortunately, the names are now on seperate signposts because the Council got fed up with people pinching the Ham Sandwich ones!

Don't think I fancy Upper Wallop or Middle Wallop!

It would be quite amusing to fly to Butler Memorial Airport, just for the three-letter airport code . I'm staying away from Buochs Airport in Switzerland though .

How about Nether Wallop?

I posess a large book full of suggestive place names.

I never much fancied Sludge Hall, near Cold Newton, Leicestershire.

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Nicki,I found it on Autoroute
It goes nowhere, passing under the M1, forking into two and becoming two dead-ends.

There's a Wyre Piddle near me hehe




Lower Slaughter is another local gem, along with Chipping Sodbury (known in my family as Sodding Chipbury)

I don't fancy Peover (somewhere in the Midlands) I remember passing Peover Golf Club, but I resisted.

Peover - yup, heard of that one. Pronounced Pee-va I believe?! though if you speak Slavonic languages that is still a good name

Theyre in Cheshire, Lower Peover, and in fact Over Peover. Northeast of Middlewich.
I should have rememebered those two

I watched a house hunting in France programme yesterday and the couple were being shown around a property in a place called St Jean Le Thomas.