Author Topic: Unusual place names. (Read 24330 times)

mr ben · « **Reply #100 on:** 31 January, 2018, 03:00:49 pm »

The Blackpool-Glasgow-Blackpool last year went passed Wide open Dykes just north of Carlisle.

I've just noticed that the thread title is unusual place names, not vulgar, smutty, crude, immature, etc...but perhaps that's just what many of us find interesting around here.

Somnolent · « **Reply #101 on:** 01 February, 2018, 10:59:39 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 16 January, 2018, 11:13:23 am

There's also this place:

I once manned a control there.

Going out the other way from Somnolent Towers is Upham (Which always makes me think of Cpl Jones' "They don't like it...")

nikki · « **Reply #102 on:** 02 February, 2018, 07:01:17 pm »

Quote from: mr ben on 31 January, 2018, 03:00:49 pm

I've just noticed that the thread title is unusual place names

oh, right, so you mean more like when there aren't a lot of places with the same name?

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BrianI · « **Reply #103 on:** 02 February, 2018, 08:29:14 pm »

Puddledub?

Must be a very wet place, if the puddles have dubs¹ in them!

You know you are in Fife, when you have place names such as Auchter~~spanner~~tool and Auchtermuchty!

¹http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/dub

tonyh · « **Reply #104 on:** 03 February, 2018, 06:34:04 am »

Lovely word, lovely link. Thanks Brian!

pdm · « **Reply #105 on:** 03 February, 2018, 09:37:44 am »

Of course, there is also No Man's Land just south of Horningtop on the way to Looe in Cornwall...

megajoulesexpenditure · « **Reply #106 on:** 03 February, 2018, 11:11:16 am »

One of our favourites on our events is Ecclefechan,to which many people reply Wear the fox hat?

Pingu · « **Reply #107 on:** 03 February, 2018, 12:05:56 pm »

Quote from: BrianI on 02 February, 2018, 08:29:14 pm

Puddledub?

Must be a very wet place, if the puddles have dubs¹ in them!

You know you are in Fife, when you have place names such as Auchter~~spanner~~tool and Auchtermuchty!

¹http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/dub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0kiiB3O-o

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #108 on:** 03 February, 2018, 12:42:01 pm »

Mmmm Puddledub Pork. Mmmm bacunz.....

hellymedic · « **Reply #109 on:** 03 February, 2018, 01:28:43 pm »

Is Auchtermuchty Scots for Toller Porcorum?

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #110 on:** 04 February, 2018, 11:34:57 am »

I always liked the route sheet instruction on the Elenith.

In Pontrhydfendigaid R SP Pont-y-rhyd-y-groes.

T42 · « **Reply #111 on:** 04 February, 2018, 11:55:25 am »

On a BCMF in the Massif Central we went through Valcivières - Valley of the Stretchers.

nadir · « **Reply #112 on:** 17 February, 2018, 06:32:38 pm »

Last summer, on a tour of Scotland, I cycled through Dull, a village just outside Aberfeldy. I also noted that it was twinned with the town of Boring, Oregon, in the USA.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #113 on:** 04 September, 2023, 06:01:01 pm »

Do we have a Lyn on the forum?

And you get to Lynsore Bottom along Pett Bottom Lane. I've shocked, surprised and disappointed that this forum has been in existence for more than 15 years yet this is the first time I have heard of these little gems.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map?X=616500&Y=149500&A=Y&Z=120

(Tim Hall or someone will be along in a moment to tell me that I haven't been paying attention for a Very Long Time).

paulworthington53 · « **Reply #114 on:** 04 September, 2023, 06:58:34 pm »

https://strava.app.link/mHYqSTcePCb

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LiamFitz · « **Reply #115 on:** 12 October, 2023, 02:50:25 pm »

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. I'm thinking of an Agatha Christie whodunnit or an American Civil War saga featuring Hampstead Norries, Carlton Brinkley, Shirley Hattersley, Cleobury Mortimer, Stanley Pontlarge, Drayton Beauchamp and Eaton Hastings. Maybe it could be set in the family home of the Slaughters of Oxfordshire?

Perhaps Nancy Mulhouse could put in a guest appearance from France.

Kim · « **Reply #116 on:** 12 October, 2023, 02:54:02 pm »

Bentley Pauncefoot should be in there somewhere.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #117 on:** 12 October, 2023, 03:13:43 pm »

And you could send the Bad Aussee off to Germany.

Jaded · « **Reply #118 on:** 12 October, 2023, 03:24:31 pm »

There are plenty more, Leonard Stanley, Ashton Keynes, Clifford Chambers, Nevill Holt.

robgul · « **Reply #119 on:** 12 October, 2023, 06:49:02 pm »

Quote from: LiamFitz on 12 October, 2023, 02:50:25 pm

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. I'm thinking of an Agatha Christie whodunnit or an American Civil War saga featuring Hampstead Norries, Carlton Brinkley, Shirley Hattersley, Cleobury Mortimer, Stanley Pontlarge, Drayton Beauchamp and Eaton Hastings. Maybe it could be set in the family home of the Slaughters of Oxfordshire?

Perhaps Nancy Mulhouse could put in a guest appearance from France.

Years ago I used to drive from home in N Essex to Cheltenham every Monday morning to work for the week - it always amused me to see the road sign on the A40 just into Gloucestereshire "The Barringtons and the Rissingtons"

. . . and when we moved to Gloucestershire we looked at a house at Stanley Pontlarge.

Nuncio · « **Reply #120 on:** 12 October, 2023, 07:59:44 pm »

Quote from: LiamFitz on 12 October, 2023, 02:50:25 pm

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. I'm thinking of an Agatha Christie whodunnit or an American Civil War saga featuring Hampstead Norries, Carlton Brinkley, Shirley Hattersley, Cleobury Mortimer, Stanley Pontlarge, Drayton Beauchamp and Eaton Hastings. Maybe it could be set in the family home of the Slaughters of Oxfordshire?

Perhaps Nancy Mulhouse could put in a guest appearance from France.

Here's a short story on the same theme.

A man on holiday in the Lincolnshire Wolds decided to take a bus. He'd never been on one before so nervously asked the woman in front of him in the queue what to do. The woman told him just to follow her lead.
The bus turned up and they got on.
Woman [to driver]: 'Mavis Enderby, single'
She is given a ticket.
Man, confidently: 'Earnest Spencer, widowed, 2 children'

Tull924 · « **Reply #121 on:** 12 October, 2023, 09:15:14 pm »

This is local to me and always makes me chuckle

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.055487,-2.5568528,3a,19.2y,11.07h,80.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgCUMXqG_3LlwrOhRz1k0dg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

I suppose I should get a photo for my sign project - https://www.instagram.com/brandonsukplacenames/

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #122 on:** 12 October, 2023, 09:25:04 pm »

This was reminding me of various "Watery Lanes" that have turned out to be appropriate names, at least for canoes rather than Audaxers. Although sadly, on one very wet edition of the Dean, where we got to "R at SP no meaningful road markings", which was ironic because all three roads were under six inches of muddy water, it turned out that none of them was a "Watery Lane".

Salvatore · « **Reply #123 on:** 12 October, 2023, 09:53:50 pm »

Quote from: Nuncio on 12 October, 2023, 07:59:44 pm

Quote from: LiamFitz on 12 October, 2023, 02:50:25 pm
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. I'm thinking of an Agatha Christie whodunnit or an American Civil War saga featuring Hampstead Norries, Carlton Brinkley, Shirley Hattersley, Cleobury Mortimer, Stanley Pontlarge, Drayton Beauchamp and Eaton Hastings. Maybe it could be set in the family home of the Slaughters of Oxfordshire?

Perhaps Nancy Mulhouse could put in a guest appearance from France.
Here's a short story on the same theme.

A man on holiday in the Lincolnshire Wolds decided to take a bus. He'd never been on one before so nervously asked the woman in front of him in the queue what to do. The woman told him just to follow her lead.
The bus turned up and they got on.
Woman [to driver]: 'Mavis Enderby, single'
She is given a ticket.
Man, confidently: 'Earnest Spencer, widowed, 2 children'

Told to me by Pete Gifford one dark night somewhere in the Fens on the Great Eastern 1000 circa 1990.

robgul · « **Reply #124 on:** 13 October, 2023, 07:26:55 am »

Quote from: Tull924 on 12 October, 2023, 09:15:14 pm

This is local to me and always makes me chuckle

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.055487,-2.5568528,3a,19.2y,11.07h,80.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgCUMXqG_3LlwrOhRz1k0dg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

I suppose I should get a photo for my sign project - https://www.instagram.com/brandonsukplacenames/

If you get to Upton-on-Severn then Minge Lane is waiting to be photographed

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