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Towns, Villages in uk with funny names

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angelic Tue 11-Jun-19 08:26:25

Time for a giggle

Scratchy Bottom

Grandmabeach Tue 11-Jun-19 10:46:01

In Kent there is a signpost which points to a small hamlet and a nearby town. It reads

HAM 1/2
SANDWICH 3

Twopence Tue 11-Jun-19 10:49:01

Pity Me, County Durham

jacalpad Tue 11-Jun-19 10:58:03

Six Mile Bottom, between Cambridge and Newmarket!

jura2 Tue 11-Jun-19 11:03:01

LOL - and sometimes it is only funny to some people, and not to others who just can't see why?

Like the people of the village near Bern called 'Wankdorf' - but as we drove past in the ski trip bus, my students always spotted it, for sure.

jaylucy Tue 11-Jun-19 11:14:55

Oh, Willow10 , do I have an idea of where you may live! My BiL and DS live not far from there and often use the garage for their car !
Slip End
Little and Great Horwood in Bucks
Haselbury Plucknett in Somerset
Cogenhoe in Northants

Hellsbelles Tue 11-Jun-19 11:14:57

Welcome to my home .... Cockermouth.

TerriBull Tue 11-Jun-19 11:15:54

Pratt's Bottom and Sandy Balls already been mentioned damn! I've been to both grin

Well I'm just going to have to wander over to France then and mention "Condom"

Greyduster Tue 11-Jun-19 11:19:28

Flash, in the Peak District. The highest village in Great Britain - a claim that may have been disputed recently.

ninathenana Tue 11-Jun-19 11:24:09

Nob End S. Lancashire
Twatt Orkney

......I 'll just leave those there grin

ninathenana Tue 11-Jun-19 11:27:25

Terribull I often pass Pratt's Bottom on my travels around my county but I've not come across Sandy Balls
...off to look at Google maps smile

TerriBull Tue 11-Jun-19 11:33:44

nina "Sandy Balls" in the New Forest. It's actually a holiday village/camp site, we stayed there with our children when they were little and friends and their children who had discovered it and stayed there before. Yes grin we couldn't believe the name either.

Loislovesstewie Tue 11-Jun-19 11:36:24

Willow, I used to live near Titty Ho!

crazyH Tue 11-Jun-19 11:36:36

Ramsbottom

1Jodie Tue 11-Jun-19 11:42:17

Badgers Mount and Locksbottom.

TerriBull Tue 11-Jun-19 11:44:17

I think we stumbled upon this place in Wales a few years ago.

Llanfairpwyllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantysiliogogagoch............Is that right Annie or have I missed the odd "l" out ? Anyway I wouldn't attempt trying to pronounce it either after a few drinks or if your teeth are not firmly in place grin

HAZBEEN Tue 11-Jun-19 11:45:03

No Place County Durham

Gilly1952 Tue 11-Jun-19 11:48:40

There’s a Willey near me! Always causes a smirk!

JanaNana Tue 11-Jun-19 11:50:11

Tiddlywink .....a small pretty village in Wiltshire.

Greyduster Tue 11-Jun-19 11:50:28

Wittering, which I understand is situated on the Manhood peninsula ?. I stand to be corrected!

TerriBull Tue 11-Jun-19 11:51:09

Here's some more:

Bell End - Worcestershire
Baggy Bottom - Herts
Twatt - Orkney
Nob End - South Lancashire
Scratchey Bottom Dorset
Bitchfield - Lincs

Yeah definitely have to move if I lived in any of those places, the humiliation would be just too great grin

Pix5 Tue 11-Jun-19 11:53:06

My in-laws lived in Haslebury Plucknet years ago, smelt of cow dung.

Legs55 Tue 11-Jun-19 12:05:50

I used to live not too far from Ryme Intrinseca & Hslebury Plucknett

Wetwang, Richard Whitley of Countdown fame was Mayor at one time

Idle once a Village but now a suburb of Bradford, best known for it's Working Mens Clubgrin

Legs55 Tue 11-Jun-19 12:10:22

Haslebury Plunknett (I did proof read but missed thisblush). Full of good, healthy country smellshmm

BlueSapphire Tue 11-Jun-19 12:22:36

An early boyfriend lived in Pratts Bottom - he was, too....

mancgirl Tue 11-Jun-19 12:33:12

CrazyH Ramsbottom - known locally as tupps arseblush