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Always liked Bryant's Bottom, Butler's Cross, Marsh Gibbon, Whaplode Drove and Wetwang myself
 
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Quite a few Bradford suburbs have mildly amusing names. There's the aforementioned (several times!) Idle, there's also Bowling, Fagley, Frizinghall (not rude, but a little bit odd)...

Wakefield has a few too, with Bottom Boat, Portobello (only included because locals seem to pronounce it like "Pot-belly"), and of course, Horbury.

My hometown of Huddersfield just has Longwood... and possibly Marsden Hard End.
 

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Quite a few Bradford suburbs have mildly amusing names. There's the aforementioned (several times!) Idle, there's also Bowling, Fagley, Frizinghall (not rude, but a little bit odd)...

Wakefield has a few too, with Bottom Boat, Portobello (only included because locals seem to pronounce it like "Pot-belly"), and of course, Horbury.

My hometown of Huddersfield just has Longwood... and possibly Marsden Hard End.

Don't forget in Wakefield we also have Lupset (pronounced Lupsit).

Newmillerdam always seems a bit of a mouthful too.

Between Bradford and Halifax there is of course, Shelf, whilst over the hills in Lancashire, there's Fence (near Nelson), and the town of Bacup.
 
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Quite a few Bradford suburbs have mildly amusing names. There's the aforementioned (several times!) Idle, there's also Bowling, Fagley, Frizinghall (not rude, but a little bit odd)...

Wakefield has a few too, with Bottom Boat, Portobello (only included because locals seem to pronounce it like "Pot-belly"), and of course, Horbury.

My hometown of Huddersfield just has Longwood... and possibly Marsden Hard End.

You missed out the most famous - Wibsey. Fell in its park lake way back in '63. :)
 

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There's a lot of strange named places in Lincolnshire and in the bordering areas of Nottinghamshire. Namely; Norton Disney, Wragby, Skellingthorpe, North and South Scarle, and Eagle :)
 
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I go through Six mile bottom every day and it is in Cambridgeshire not Suffolk there is also Three Holes and Rings End in Cambridgeshire.
 

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I know many of you gents have passed through Cockwood, Possibly enroute to Cockington, possibly just as you turn off for Horwood! Don't worry, you can finish off your long journey in Beer :P
 
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There's always the ones that sound a bit rude such as Clitheroe (ask and Aussie to say it when they've never heard it said), Penistone, Scunthorpe (very well known one that), Cockermouth and Hawes...
 

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I go through Six mile bottom every day and it is in Cambridgeshire not Suffolk there is also Three Holes and Rings End in Cambridgeshire.

My great gran lived in Three Holes.
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Potto in North Yorkshire
Slaggyford in Northumberland
 

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Sorry, was going through old threads to read them, and decided to post without realising the age of this one... :oops: :oops: :oops:
 
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Buttsy:2046007 said:
There's always the ones that sound a bit rude such as Clitheroe (ask and Aussie to say it when they've never heard it said), Penistone, Scunthorpe (very well known one that), Cockermouth and Hawes...
I was on the S&C and the guide was telling the carriage about the Hawes branch. Exceptionally few people didn't snigger at that!
 

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Not quite the correct spelling, but people keep defacing the sign.

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Although not in England, has this one been mentioned yet ?

Dildo - NL Canada
 
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An odd one I saw was Shilbottle.
I was going to Edinburgh years with a few lads from Dublin, when they spotted vandalised Sh*tbottle they proceeded to laugh for the next 2 hours...

Some other intetesting names

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Hell in Norway
Swastika, Ontario and Swastika, New York...
Condom in France
Bell End in Worcestershire

I am sure there is a road in Shepshed called Butthole Lane and Shepshed Dynamo FC has there stadium there

If I remember correctly I recall reading about a police station in Sheffield on Letsby Avenue
 

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...If I remember correctly I recall reading about a police station in Sheffield on Letsby Avenue

Letsby Avenue is on some maps on line, but there's not actually any sign on the ground, at least last year when I looked.
Likewise, there's no mention of it on their own website, either via their own search or by putting into Google letsby site:southyorks.police.uk [edit that's site:followed by southyorks...]
However, there's a Guardian article explaining that it may have started as a joke, but got accepted by the council when the road was put in
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/12/martinwainwright

It's not a police station as such (not open to the public), but it's also next to where they keep their helicopter.
 
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Letsby Avenue is on some maps on line, but there's not actually any sign on the ground, at least last year when I looked.
Likewise, there's no mention of it on their own website, either via their own search or by putting into Google letsby site:southyorks.police.uk
However, there's a Guardian article explaining that it may have started as a joke, but got accepted by the council when the road was put in
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/12/martinwainwright

It's not a police station as such (not open to the public), but it's also next to where they keep their helicopter.
Yeah, I found it on google maps after thinking my memory was playing tricks on me

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two mile bottom - Norfolk
Weeting-with-Broomhill - Norfolk
Hockwold-cum-Wilton - Norfolk
Over Wallop, Middle Wallop and Nether Wallop - Hants
 

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My mam used to work at BT years ago and people used to phone up asking for either Widdy A-Pen, Wee-day Open or Why-Day Open until she figured out they were asking for Wide Open near Newcastle
 

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Just been looking at a website and I found, dunno if there 100% genuine

Faggot in Northumberland
Fannybarks in Co. Durham(sounds like a nickname for a girl whose front bottom makes funny noises) :D
Fudgepack Upon Humber

The *******, a mountain in Scotland apparantly

Three Cocks in Wales
 

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Assloss - Ayr
Bloody Bush - Northumberland
F@cking - Austria
Intercourse - Pennsylvania, USA
La Butte es Gros - Normandy, France
Phuket - Thailand
Rimsting - Germany
Spooner Row - Norfolk
Titz - Germany
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I was going to Edinburgh years with a few lads from Dublin, when they spotted vandalised Sh*tbottle they proceeded to laugh for the next 2 hours...

Some other intetesting names

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Hell in Norway
Swastika, Ontario and Swastika, New York...
Condom in France
Bell End in Worcestershire

I am sure there is a road in Shepshed called Butthole Lane and Shepshed Dynamo FC has there stadium there

If I remember correctly I recall reading about a police station in Sheffield on Letsby Avenue

There's actually a road in Rowley Regis called Bell End
 

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Gotham in the midlands.

Just up the road from me. It's interesting to note that it is pronounced Go-Tam, but caused some amusement to the Batman fans that decended upon Nottingham when Wollaton Hall was used as Wayne Manor.
 
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