Author Topic: Unusual place names.  (Read 24106 times)

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #25 on: 09 December, 2013, 07:48:57 pm »
Cockermouth *schoolboy snigger*. Good controls as well.
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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #26 on: 09 December, 2013, 07:58:17 pm »
...then of course there is: Scratchy Bottom, Devon. Sandy Balls, Hampshire. Thong, Kent. The Knob, Oxfordshire. Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire. Shitterton, Dorset. Hours of fun.
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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #27 on: 09 December, 2013, 09:48:54 pm »
Near Rye, East Sussex. "Dumb Womans Lane" And in Kent "Pratts Bottom"

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #28 on: 09 December, 2013, 09:53:49 pm »
I used to live in the cutesy sounding Squitchey Lane, Summertown. Where only picket fences and kittens happen.

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #29 on: 09 December, 2013, 09:57:32 pm »
Wibbly wobbly lane Hitchin
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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #30 on: 09 December, 2013, 10:43:16 pm »
Driving across France on the way back from skiing, the town of Pussy was signposted. Luckly 12 year old son was asleep...  ;D

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #31 on: 10 December, 2013, 12:25:13 am »
I often ride up a Fine Bush Lane near Harefield.

I once missed the turning for Fine Bush Lane while failing to keep up with Charlotte...

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #32 on: 10 December, 2013, 01:22:21 am »
Am sure I passed signs for Buttcombe on Stroud 5 valleys perm. (Buttcombe beer was being served in local pub too).
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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #33 on: 10 December, 2013, 09:08:26 am »
Driving across France on the way back from skiing, the town of Pussy was signposted. Luckly 12 year old son was asleep...  ;D

And down in the South West there is the town of Condom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom,_Gers

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #34 on: 10 December, 2013, 10:28:13 am »
Am sure I passed signs for Buttcombe on Stroud 5 valleys perm. (Buttcombe beer was being served in local pub too).
Close, but it is Butcombe. Nice village. Good brewery.
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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #35 on: 10 December, 2013, 11:29:16 am »
In darkest Aberdeenshire in the Cairngorms National Park

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #36 on: 10 December, 2013, 02:33:07 pm »
Surprided that no-ones yet mentioned "Bell End" on the A491 between Bromsgrove and Stourbridge.

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #37 on: 10 December, 2013, 03:56:16 pm »
Struth and Bust, about 50k from here.
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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #38 on: 10 December, 2013, 04:51:15 pm »
Ugley in Essex and Nasty in Herts, close enough to each other that we quite often do a Nasty Ugley ride.

(Apparently though, the Ugley Women's Institute has succumbed to pressure and is now more flatteringly known as the Women's Institute of Ugley.)

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #39 on: 10 December, 2013, 05:19:35 pm »
Pant Farm at Willey near Presteigne ....
....after the `tarte de pommes`, and  fortified by a couple of shots of limoncellos,  I flew up the Col de Bavella whilst thunderstorms rolled around the peaks above

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #40 on: 10 December, 2013, 05:25:28 pm »
Surprided that no-ones yet mentioned "Bell End" on the A491 between Bromsgrove and Stourbridge.

Weeford - Bell End - Piddle Lake is a ride that needs doing, if it wasn't for all the Birmingham in the way.

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #41 on: 10 December, 2013, 06:21:10 pm »
I often drive through Plwmp on the A487 on the way to the beach.
I do hope there is a Plwmp Women's Institute.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #42 on: 10 December, 2013, 07:39:08 pm »
Ugley in Essex and Nasty in Herts, close enough to each other that we quite often do a Nasty Ugley ride.

(Apparently though, the Ugley Women's Institute has succumbed to pressure and is now more flatteringly known as the Women's Institute of Ugley.)

The Shaftesbury huts at 'Henham' are really in Ugley Green aren't they?

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #43 on: 10 December, 2013, 07:53:52 pm »
In darkest Aberdeenshire in the Cairngorms National Park



Yes, the council have a problem with that sign: it keeps getting stolen!

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #44 on: 10 December, 2013, 07:58:16 pm »
I often ride up a Fine Bush Lane near Harefield.

Thence to New Year's Green and Christmas Common?

I used to live at Breakspear Stables Cottage, Breakspear Road North, Harefield. Unusual in the amount of Letraset I got through. I see Marcus JB has used the footpath to get up the hill leading into Harefield.

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #45 on: 13 December, 2013, 09:28:08 pm »
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(Apparently though, the Ugley Women's Institute has succumbed to pressure and is now more flatteringly known as the Women's Institute of Ugley.)

Similar problem for the ladies in Loose near Maidstone

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #46 on: 13 December, 2013, 11:10:24 pm »
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(Apparently though, the Ugley Women's Institute has succumbed to pressure and is now more flatteringly known as the Women's Institute of Ugley.)

Similar problem for the ladies in Loose near Maidstone

Not to speak of the Working Men's Club in Idle, Yorkshire...

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #47 on: 14 December, 2013, 05:45:32 pm »
On my LEJOG this year I found Darkey lane in Devon. Fiddlers Green... and the best was near Carlisle...The Willey Farm ! Which was a pedigree beef farm !

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #48 on: 14 December, 2013, 06:23:36 pm »
Lewd Lane in Smarden, ooooo I say.

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #49 on: 14 December, 2013, 09:04:47 pm »
Ugley and Nasty