Amusing UK place names
From Crapstone to Great Cockup to Pratt’s Bottom: this list of “159 of the most stupidly named places in the UK” (i.e., names that are, as the page says, “smutty”) is quite entertaining. Each name is linked to a map of the location, just in case you don’t believe such places could actually exist.
You have to love a country with place names like Nasty, Rotten Bottom, and Twatt, don’t you?
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January 31st, 2004 at 1:34 pm
my favorites (of ones I had seen) were Crudwell and Mudford. On the attractive side, I can’t find anything to beat Ryme Intrinseca . . . .
January 31st, 2004 at 4:46 pm
Is there a site anywhere listing the most beautiful UK place names?
I actually have a book of UK place names, so maybe I will have to write up my own list someday.
February 1st, 2004 at 7:45 pm
I used to live in the South West of Britain and near Bristol there is a place called Fishpond. Imagine telling people that you live in Fishpond…
February 21st, 2004 at 9:53 am
I’m from Somerset and near me there is Puddletown, which is sweet, and tinker’s Bubble! A road called Paradise, and an area called Wagg!
February 21st, 2004 at 9:54 am
oh and up the road from me is a village called Coat!
February 21st, 2004 at 3:25 pm
Oh, that’s lovely. I want to move there just so I can use those names all the time.
February 21st, 2004 at 4:29 pm
Check this out… I’m welsh originally… My starsign is half goat half man (capricorn)… and i live in Ramsbottom!!! Blame my parents for all those!!!
February 21st, 2004 at 10:20 pm
Well, we may not have such cool names here in Washington State, but we do have places like Puyallup, Sequim, and Walla Walla.
April 13th, 2006 at 2:08 am
Hey! I live in Fishponds, Bristol…oh….I see what you mean…