Had to share this: Strange Place Names 🇬🇧

I lived not that far from six mile bottom Jackyb I also know Newmarket well

I had an uncle that lived in LlanfairPG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - some crazy name that! Makes you wonder what they were on when they came up with that … that’ll teach those English folk 🤣🤣🤪

My parents nearly bought a house in Drunken Bottom. And I used to frequently pass a Somerset road called Scumbrum Lane.

Here in the London Borough of Bromley we have Pratt’s Bottom and Badger’s Mount.

Also near Deal.
A meal deal?

I do have a friend who lives not far from Busty Bank...here in the North East!

We live near Sandwich in Kent which is very near Ham!

Condom and Seix in the French Pyrenees (not neighbours!)

Theres a Titty Ho lane, somewhere, I think.

what about the Piddles in Worcestershire? (wyre piddle), several Nomanslands, Zeal Monachorum, East by the Water

Shropshire has Wigwig

Quite a few odd ones in Lancashire i noticed when i was house hunting.

I used to live in Love Lane near Dorchester.

Here in Devon we have a hamlet called Nomansland.

I love poring over OS maps when visiting a new area to find all those wonderful place names. We have such a rich and varied history in Britain (yes I know our current history is totally rubbish), and the fact that place names reflect that.

No particular favourite but there are ones that I don’t like eg in Bromsgrove is an enormous housing estate called “The Oakalls” - say it quickly. And in nearby Droitwich on another enormous housing estate is “Enid Blyton Corner” which sounds like the children’s section in the local library. Developers chose naff names.

Mind you Wasn’t “Nelson Mandela Court” quite popular one time?

My nephew lives in Sexy in Somerset and we once had a holiday in Fryup in Yorkshire

Pratts Bottom (I think in Kent)

I wonder where all the piddles originate from?

What? No Ugley (Essex) which may or may not have a Women's Institute?

Bare (a district between Lancaster and Morecambe in Lancashire, was said to have a Townswomen's Guild at one time (do the Townswomen's Guilds still exist? My mum used to belong to one).

Idle, a suburb of Bradford, most certainly has a Working Men's Club. I know this because I have seen it.

And there is Diss in Norfolk. When you near it Dissappears.

Piddletrenthide in Dorset is another piddle, Nempnet Thrubwell in North Somerset, The Wallops in Hampshire,
Peasedown St John in Bath & NE Somerset, The Three Legged Man near the New Forest.

Near a long-gone GM’s house in Hertfordshire, close to what used to be called The Great North Road, was a ‘Turpin’s Ride’, but the one we liked best as kids was ‘Robbery Bottom’.

I’ve never heard of any ghostly Dick Turpin haunting the area and trying to hold up massive SUVs, but it’s a nice thought.

Esmay, there's a road in Guildford that locals used to nickname "Boat Alley" - because it had "oars" on both sides!

There is also a Pityme in Cornwall near Rock. I think someone told us it was so named after people on boats crossing the Camel estuary to Padstow.

Other weird names in Greater Manchester

Besses o'th 'Barn, Bury