Unusual place names.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

One game I play is to reverse place names - a little bit like Emitremmus Desrever is Summertime Reversed.   One of the best is Odiham - which becomes Mahido - the best martial art never invented.

[drossall]

Thence to New Year's Green and Christmas Common?

There was a discussion somewhere in which I suggested linking Christmas Common to Cold Christmas, near Ware. I've just discovered that there's also a Christmas Pie, west of Guildford at Flexford. Looks as though it's going to have to be a London Orbital event.

Season's greetings, everyone!

[Lightning Phil]

There’s also Christmas Wood near Kimpton but no sign to pose by like the others! Or Christmas Field road in Sible Hedingham, Essex https://maps.app.goo.gl/quoVyTNtBXf3fbSR9?g_st=ic

[drossall]

I have to say I've never come across that one, and it's local. I've certainly ridden that way a fair few times. Thanks!

[djmc]

Not for Christmas but near Chelmsford there are Good Easter and High Easter.

[hellymedic]

Essex also has Matching Green and Matching Tye, for the sartorially elegant.

[MikeFromLFE]

In these discussions the Leicestershire villages of Newtown Unthank and Barton in the Beans are usually mentioned.
Both reputedly named with Great Plague connections (Unthank because they thought wrongly they'd got away with it, and Barton who subsisted on a stash of beans. Hmmmm).
In living memory Barton-in-the-Beans (hyphens being optional) had a splendid home-spun cyclists' cafe.

There's also Ab Kettleby.

[ElyDave]

Not specifically a place name, one of my favourites is in the town of Eye in Suffolk, a sign pointing to the Eye Cemetery,  with visions of rows of matchboxe sized little coffins and gravemarkers

[John Stonebridge]

There's an Unthank on the outskirts of Brechin too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unthank,_Angus

[Rod Marton]

Essex also has Matching Green and Matching Tye, for the sartorially elegant.

Back in my Essex days there was an Audaxer with the address The Green, Matching Tye. Almost unbeatable.

[canny colin]

Make me rich  in Geordieshire  and Hookergate , south of the border ( the river Tyne ) . All ways raise a smile .

[Cudzoziemiec]

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

[psyclist]

Essex also has Matching Green and Matching Tye, for the sartorially elegant.

Tye Green is nearby too

[Tomsk]

Great Totham in Essex - nothing unusual in that, but a mile up the road there's another village of that name. They're known locally as Totham North and Totham South, and there's also a Little Totham, Totham Plains and Totham Hill.

Btw, I seem to recall that the Fox pub in Matching Tye was for a short while a restaurant called 'Thai Silk', excellent!

[Deano]

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.

They're my favourites too, particularly Patrick Brompton near Bedale (not a forgotten heart-throb from the Hollywood golden era, I reckon they named it after the church of St Patrick to differentiate it from the other two Bromptons nearby) and Victoria Garfield up in the coalfields of northern County Durham. Which was just Garfield colliery, but the owners thought they'd curry favour with the queen and added her name.

[hellymedic]

There's an Unthank on the outskirts of Brechin too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unthank,_Angus

There’s one in Norwich...

[jsabine]

There's an Unthank on the outskirts of Brechin too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unthank,_Angus

There’s one in Norwich...

And there are several touring the country's music venues at present

[GdS]

Boston-New York-Denver-California

without leaving East Anglia

or Quebec if you want to then go down to West Sussex

[hellymedic]

Egypt near Farnham Royal, Cyprus in London

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Botany Bay is near Burton upon Trent, also near Enfield and Tintern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEYseM_R6Hk

[L CC]

Boston-New York-Denver-California

without leaving East Anglia

or Quebec if you want to then go down to West Sussex

Québec, Toronto, Washington, New York all within 30 miles of home

[Flite]

And Philadelphia?

[drossall]

Mentioned already in similar threads, but my club's Boxing Day 10 started in Ireland, on the former Hitchin-Bedford railway line.

[hellymedic]

Wales is on the outskirts of Sheffield...

[Jaded]

There's an Unthank on the outskirts of Brechin too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unthank,_Angus

There’s one in Norwich...

And there are several touring the country's music venues at present

Indeed, which reminds me, I need to get a photo on thr gigs thread