UK place names - your favourites

[Tetchytyke]

the local Women's Institute calls itself the Women's Institute of Ugley rather than the Ugley Women's Institute.

Pfft, it worked wonders for the membership of Idle Working Men's Club

 

[IanD]

Do you mean The Idle Cock?

Yes, but we called it someting else with four letters beginning with c.

 

[Harbornite]

Yes, but we called it someting else with four letters beginning with c.

Did it rhyme with shap or shunt?

 

[IanD]

Did it rhyme with shap or shunt?

Yes, one of those 2.

 

[w0033944]

I guess you mean Heckmondwike?

Drat - apologies!

 

[lyndhurst25]

Don't forget Horncastle, Hubbert's Bridge, Whaplode, Cowbit, Guthram Gowt, Burton Coggles, Threekingham, B**chfield, Horbling, Navenby, Norton Disney and Strubby!

More from Lincolnshire - Cherry Willingham and Boothby Graffoe (also a comedian).

 

[DaleCooper]

Boothby Graffoe (also a comedian).

From what I've heard of him that is debatable.

 

[backontrack]

Hampshire has Hordle, Cocking and Lurgashall...

 

[Calthrop]

Hampshire has Hordle, Cocking and Lurgashall...

Literary associations connected with Hordle: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (late 19th century), and S.M. Stirling (very recent times) -- with much "homage" in the latter, to the former.

 

[DarloRich]

Pity Me & High Wham in Co Durham. The Land of Nod near Selby

There allegedly were other places in Co Durham but I can't find them on Google Maps:
Linger & die
Quaking Houses
Cooperative Villas
No Place (I think the last two were the same place)

No Place is near Stanley. It is a bit odd as the residents of Cooperative Villas knocked down the houses at No Place ( essentially over the road) and took the name for their settlement! At least that is story i was told by grand parents

Quaking House is also near Stanley - it is a small mining village. I assume the Quakers ( once prevalent in County Durham) explain the name

Linger and Die is near Sedgefield/Ferryhill but I am unsure if it still exists as a separate community if it ever did.

 

[GatwickDepress]

Bachelor's Bump near Hastings. There's also three hamlets in East Sussex called Cackle Street - something of a trend in Sussex, as the road I used to live in used to be called Cackle Street in days gone by.

 

[DarloRich]

Others just in County Durham:

Unthank
Muggleswick (one for the harry Potter fans there!)
Cockfield
Fatfield
Wackerfield
Deaf Hill
High/Low Wham

 

[cjmillsnun]

Five Ways in Birmingham, Three Bridges, Sevenoaks which no longer has Seven Oak trees, Scronkey near Pilling, Sawley (pronounced Sally), Wizwell (pronounced Wizzle).

I believe new oaks were planted in Sevenoaks to replace those blown over in the great storm.

 

[steamybrian]

Wivelsfield station is actually sited in a locality known as Worlds End which is part of the expanding Burgess Hill

 

[satisnek]

I'll nominate Barton in the Beans (near the Battlefield Line).

As for graffiti, did anybody save the Regional Railways Droitwich Spa nameboard on which some less-than-PC wag had added the suffix 'stics'?