Author Topic: Unusual place names.  (Read 24378 times)

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #150 on: 28 December, 2023, 12:48:33 am »
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I have a running gag going with a friend that if we ever write novels, the main characters will be named after places on English roadsigns

English village… or U.S. novelist?

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #151 on: 28 December, 2023, 11:42:26 am »
Boston-New York-Denver-California

without leaving East Anglia
Not to mention New England, south-east of Haverhill.

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #152 on: 28 December, 2023, 12:33:22 pm »
Slightly OT but

http://www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Resources/london-se1.gif

The anagram for Southern is very apt

Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #153 on: 28 December, 2023, 04:07:53 pm »
Dead Woman's Ditch on top of the Quantocks. Nately Scures (a well-known Dickens character) nr Basingstoke.  The various Piddles around west Dorset (some bowdlerised to Puddle, but the river is still a Piddle).

And this: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7585755,-3.4419866,20z?hl=en&entry=ttu

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Re: Unusual place names.
« Reply #154 on: 29 December, 2023, 11:22:36 pm »
Not to speak of Shitterton/Sitterton, nearby…

‘Valley of the pigs’ gives rise to excellent place names...