Had to share this: Strange Place Names 🇬🇧

How about Butt Hole Lane in Leicestershire.

Fresh Hovel Lane, Quorn.

Easily pleased DH and I laughed every time we drove through Sarnie on our way to see our daughter in Wales; "I'll have cheese and tomato please." "Make mine a ham and pickle." "A bag of crisps to go with it?" etc etc etc.

Just been to Giggleswick, delightful. Used to live near
Besses O’th Barn.

Peggy’s Wicket in Durham
Windy Nook in South Tyneside.
Clog Sole Lane in Brighouse - very pragmatic in West Yorkshire, ditto Industrial Street and Cement Street.

I will just put this here 🤣
Cheese Bottom never fails to make me smile especially when said in the voice of Kevin the Minion

Coming from Norfolk originally, I am very well aware of Great Snoring and Little Snoring. I understand that there is a village called Pratt's Bottom in Kent. We were on holiday in Somerset a few years ago and were very amused by the villages with Currey in their names. Our favourite was Currey Rival. We imagined pistols at dawn between the proprietors of the Bombay Express and the Indian Villa!

Believe ‘The Land of Green Ginger’ is near ‘The Land of Nod’ in Yorkshire and there is ‘Squeezeguts Alley’ in Truro, Cornwall

My mum stayed on a caravan resort place called Sandy Balls.

Bottom used to have the meaning of a valley or glen that sheep were moved down to in the winter.

I can still clearly see the expression on a class-mate's face when we as fifteen year olds were reading Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility aloud in class, and she was faced with having to keep a straight face whilst reading the following sentence, "These bottoms must be dirty in winter".

I notice no-one included Cockburn in the list of ambiguous place names

I always thought that Husbands Bosworth in Leics was a good name.

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fiorentina51

In Shropshire there is a little hamlet called New Invention. I've driven through it many times and would love to know how it got that name.

Here's what I found

There is a village in West Yorks called Friendly. I've often wondered if it is.

Chocolatelovinggran

There's a village outside Maidstone in Kent called Loose. A friend of mine took pride in being a Loose woman.

I seem to remember the "Loose Women's Institute" changing their name because it sounded wrong - to the "Institute of Loose Women"!

We have…Trotters Bottom…. In Hertfordshire

There's a California in Norfolk.

There is also Little Snoring in Norfolk.

I remember, when I was a teenager, visiting and Aunt and Uncle in Scotland and going through a village called 'Rest and be Thankful'.

We also have childish conversations when seeing signs to Fryup. It's a tiny place in Yorkshire.

There’s Good Easter near Chelmsford and someone already listed Cold Christmas in Hertfordshire.

How about Ware? People always ask where thinking mistakenly that’s what you said.

Chocolatelovinggran

There's a village outside Maidstone in Kent called Loose. A friend of mine took pride in being a Loose woman.

My SIL lives near there; she's tickled by the Loose Women's Institute!

In Oldbury, West Midlands there is a Rood End

As well as Ugley, Essex boasts Messing, Mucking, Steeple Bumpstead, and Shellow Bowells.

We have two villages in next county Ugly and Nasty..
The WIs decided to name their local groups the WI of Ugly and WI of Nasty...better than the alternative.
We have a Wibblywobbly Lane.
Lilly Bottom

There’s a village a few miles from me called Three Cocks.