Odd/Funny named Villages

[Whistler40145]

How about these from Scotland.

Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire

Butt of Lewis, Hebrides

East Breast, Inverclyde

Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty

Tarty, Aberdeenshire

 

[bnm]

North Curry, Curry Mallet, Curry Rivel, Catsgore and Dead Woman's Bottom in Somerset. Catbrain in Bristol.

In Somerton, Somerset there is a Tomtits Lane and in Yeovil, Somerset there is a Vagg Lane.

 

[Busaholic]

Tyttenhanger, near St Albans. A bus route to Cockfosters from there would not be entirely out of the question.

 

[90019]

Crapstone in Devon.

A place I would only move to to start up a poor quality quarrying business.
/Stewart Lee

 

[St Rollox]

Muff and Nobber, both in Ireland.

 

[madannie77]

Christmaspie in Surrey (which is in the parish of Normandy!)

 

[muddythefish]

Titty Ho is a road (complete with a garage called Titty Ho Service Station) in Raunds, Northants.

Westward Ho! in Cornwall is the only place name in world (as far as I am aware) with an exclamation mark.

 

[Smudger105e]

Upper Dicker and Lower Dicker in Sussex always appeal to my schoolboy sense of humour

 

[Busaholic]

There's Sticker in Cornwall, divided into Upper Sticker and Lower Sticker: it could be said they are stick(l)ers for propriety, not that I would. My dog comes from a farm in Sticker which bestraddled the border, each community comprising about a dozen properties.

 

[DaveNewcastle]

5-10 minutes away from me in Chester-le-Street.

And therefore not far from the village of 'No Place'.

On the East Coast mainline, there are occasional problems at one of the level crossings near Retford, and I always wish that the Guard would tell passengers that we will be delayed at "Botany Bay" (which most people would recognise only as a coastal feature of Sydney, Australia).

 

[Tetchytyke]

I always liked Thornton le Beans in North Yorkshire, or Kirby Overblow. Or Chorlton cum Hardy, for that matter. Or even Venton Gimps in cornwall

If we're on street names I like Tickle Cock Bridge in Castleford, or Crooked Usage in Finchley.
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Muff and Nobber, both in Ireland

Ah Muff, home of the famous Diving Club.

Or even Idle, home of the famous Working Man's Club...

 

[bnm]

Westward Ho! in Cornwall is the only place name in world (as far as I am aware) with an exclamation mark.

Oh dear. Wrong on two counts. Westward Ho! is in Devon and there's at least one other place in the world with an exclamation mark in its name (in fact two!!) Westward Ho! may be unique to the British Isles, but not the world.

St. Louis du Ha! Ha! Quebec, Canada.

 

[muddythefish]

Stand corrected on Devon but I did say as far as I am aware about the exclamation mark.

Just remembered Wetwang, a village in Yorkshire.

 

[Francis]

Good Easter and Ugley, and Abbess Roding, all in Essex

And for strangeness, Oa, which is a peninsula, part of Islay

Dorset, Devon and Somerset are full of odd names: Toller Porcorum (of the pigs) near Maiden Newton, Ryme Intrinseca, Mudford Sock (nr Yeovil), Zeal Monachorum (Devon)

Don't expect any appreciation at Unthank in Cumbria
You might think again before visiting Baulking (Oxon)
Or pick up some infection in Bawdrip (Somerset)
Who knows what you might see at Brafield-on-the-Green (Northants)?
Motorcycle rallies at Byker?
Not much funny about Clowne (Derbys)
Smoking allowed in Pipe (Herefords)
Now its all Over (Cambs)

 

[hassaanhc]

There is Sandwich in Kent, and down the road from there is Deal! Both are next to each other on the railway line as well .

I find Dorridge quite amusing, always makes me think of porridge .
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Six Mile Bottom in Suffolk makes me think of a huge posterior.

Little and Greater Snoring in Norfolk
Snodland I think in Essex or Suffolk

Snodland is actually in Kent, not too far from Rochester or Maidstone. There is also Barming.

 

[Whistler40145]

Near Sandwich is Ham, there's a signpost with Ham & Sandwich!

 

[youngiecj]

I've always liked locally to me Swineshead, And Bungay in Norfolk I think...

 

[NLC1072]

Fingringhoe - Essex

 

[edwin_m]

Old in Northamptonshire, origin of the haulage company Knights of Old.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

There's New Invention in Salop, Bell End in Worcs, and Netherthong near Holmfirth, West Yorks. Nearby Upperthong isn't quite as funny but does at least have a road called "Little Cake"!

There's also Clun in Salop, often renamed 'Clunge' on signposts.

 

[deltic1989]

I remembered a couple more.
Gayton - Norfolk
Lesiate - Norfolk
Spital-in-the-Street - Lincolnshire
Jerusalem - Lincolnshire
Sh*tterton - Dorset
Sh*ttlethorpe - County Durham
Sh*tlington Crags - Northumberland

 

[CC 72100]

Not really funny, but there is hamlet in France called "La Mort aux Juifs" - Death to the Jews. Apparently the name is not in reference to what it would suggest, and it is moreso the evolution of Old French which is to blame.

Understandably there have been movements made to try and get the name changed...

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

(Mods, if inappropriate, feel free to remove.)

 

[83G/84D]

Goongumpas in West Cornwall and of course Brown Willy.

 

[EM2]

Muff and Nobber, both in Ireland.

Which also 'boasts' Bast****town, and my favourite one - Killargue.
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Ah Muff, home of the famous Diving Club.

Or even Idle, home of the famous Working Man's Club...

Loose, near Maidstone, boasts a Women's Institute...

 

[83G/84D]

There is also a "Cocks" near Perranporth in Cornwall.

 

[Mojo]

Mold, in North Wales. Conjures up some pretty unpleasant thoughts.

 

[AntoniC]

There is a place in Lancashire called Crank (and it even had its own railway station !).

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/crank/index.shtml

 

[83G/84D]

I remembered a couple more.
Gayton - Norfolk
Lesiate - Norfolk
Spital-in-the-Street - Lincolnshire
Jerusalem - Lincolnshire
Sh*tterton - Dorset
Sh*ttlethorpe - County Durham
Sh*tlington Crags - Northumberland

Palestine in Hampshire, not too far from Middle Wallop.

 

[muddythefish]

I've always liked locally to me Swineshead, And Bungay in Norfolk I think...

There's a Swineshead in Bedfordshire too.

Bethlehem in Wales.

 

[krus_aragon]

Broadbottom is between Sheffield and Derby, if I recall. Draycott in the Clay always tickled me, and my wife says Openwoodgate exemplifies Derbyshire's silly names.

And some highlights from Wales: Star, Plwmp, Soar (So-arr) and Sling.