Silly Place Names?

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STEPHEN W

wiggleswick or gigglesworth in north yorkshire

purpletrace999

spaxton, sounds like an insult!

Dazza

I live about 12 miles from Wetwang in East Yorkshire.The late Richard Whitely was the mayor.

10 mins later.......there's an area of Hull called The Land of Green Ginger.

wytch6

We have a town called HOTAZEL

MRS. A

HELLS KITCHEN, CA

mediahoney

Intercourse, Pennsylvania

Chris

Drumahoe in northern ireland...

tors

BONKLE..was a mining village long age. in lanarkshire scotland

the-awkward-oracle

theres a place in Cornwall called 'shop'
not rude but pretty damn stupid

Shadar

I remember a place in Florida called "Boca Grande", it means big mouth in Spanish.

BTW, interesting picture in your profile. It's been years since I've seen a picture of Danger Mouse.

progfest01

Between Barnsley and Sheffield is a place called Half Way.Half Way to what?

What about 'Nempnett Thrubwell' then. Not a made up name, but a tiny hamlet near Bristol in South West England.

ka ka

There's a place in scotland called T*at. People have their picture taken next to the road sign so that the arrow is pointing to them. There's a place in the Lakes called Cockermouth.

Isn't the place in Yorkshire called Giggleswick, or is that a different place?

fae

there's a place called pu$$y in France!! no joke!
and somewhere there's a place called little snoring!!

migelito

My favourite is Ugley in Essex - complete with The Ugley Women's Institute

j4mes_bond25

Since you're emphasising the "stupidest" name, rather than the "offensive" name, I'd go with the Wales village name called:

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobw... which is in Anglesey, Wales.

This Welsh town on the island of Anglesey is only known due to the fact that it has a very long name, and is the longest railway station name in Britain, and probably the longest domain name in the world.

The name translates as 'St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave'.

Originally called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, which means 'The Mary church by the pool near the white hazels' the village was renamed in the 19th Century.

This was around the time when the railway was built between Chester and Holyhead at the beginning of the 1850s. A local committee was put together to try and encourage trains, travellers and 19th Century tourists to stop at the village in order to help develop the village as a commercial and tourist centre. It is believed that the name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll... was invented by a cobbler from Menai Bridge; little did he know that he had implemented one of the most successful tourist marketing plans of all time. Today the village is signposted as Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and is known to locals as Llanfairpwll or Llanfair.

Now, the interesting aspect of this name is its pronunciation.

For that, just split it up into easy mouthfulls:

Llan - fair - pwll - gwyn - gyll - go - gery - chwyrn - drobwll - llanty - silio - gogogoch

intruder3906

Heckmondwike....
its as bad as it sounds...

codge

TIDDLEYWINK, GLOS, . / NEW ZEALAND, WILTS

Muddy

Tooting Bec (near London, southeast side)

amfound2

In Northumberand there are places called, Pity me" and
"No place" Cleckheaton and Liversedge are in West Yorkshire
There is an upper peeover and lower peeover in the Midlands.
Stony Stratford is nr Milton Keynes (I think). Little Wetum (Nr Scarborough)
I know lots more but cant remember at the moment. I might come back and add them on later!

Tefi

believe it or not, there's a village called Mavis Enderby in Lincolnshire!

Gordon B

The Land of Nod, East Yorkshire,

creviazuk

"Lucky Slap" in Angus, just outside Dundee

mctazz2001

Six Mile Bottom. Near Newmarket, England

TEACAKE

I live near Durham and theres one place called Pity me and another called No Place near Beamish museum in Stanley Co Durham -weird eh!!!

Your No1

mianus haha!

Squiddly Diddly

There is a place in the cheltenham/gloucester area called Birds lip. Nice.............

bsilverwood

It's not in the UK, but there is a Hell, Michigan... You can literally say you have been to Hell and Back...

And if that is not enough fun for you, Hell, Michigan annually has some buzzard festival... The birds migrate through the area and there are hundreds of these ugly things EVERYWHERE!!!

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