What is the funniest place name in the UK?

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raidon04

Apes Hall (Norfolk)
Bishops Itchington (unk)
Boysack (Tayside, Scot.)
Brokenborough (Avon)
Burnt Houses (Co. Durham)
California (Norfolk)
Cannard's Grave (Somerset)
Carlingcott (Avon)
Caynham (Shrops.)
Clappers (Lothian, Scotland)
Climpy (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Crackport (County unknown) See picture below!
Devizes (Wilts.)
Diss (Norfolk)
Dollarbeg (Fife, Scotland)
Dorking, Surrey
Duck End (Essex)
Egypt (Hamps.)
Felldownhead (Devon)
Folly Gate (Devon)
Foulden (Lothian, Scotland)
Frisby On The Wreake (Leics.)
Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
Godolphin Cross (Somerset)
Goosey (Oxfords.)
Great Snoring (Norfolk)
Gurney Slade (Avon)
Ham and Sandwich (Kent)
Herodsfoot (Cornwall)
Herringfleet (Norfolk)
Hetton-le-Hole (Co. Durham)
High Ham (Somerset)
Hopton Wafers (Shrops.)
Jump, So. Yorks
Killiecrankie (Tayside, Scot.)
Kilmahog (Central Scotland)
Kilmany (Fife, Scot.)
Knockdown (Avon)
Knockin (Shrops.)
Leatherhead (Exeter)
Little Horwood (Bucks.)
Little Snoring (Norfolk)
Little Sodbury (Avon)
Little Town (Cumbria)
Little Wratting (Cambs.)
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWL... Anglesy, Wales
Lower Down (Shrops.)
Mockbeggar (Kent)
Mousehole (Cornwall)
Much Haddam (Cambs.)
Nasty (Herts.)
Nether Poppleton (North Yorkshire)
New Invention (Wales)
North Piddle (Worcs.)
Peasedown St. John (Wilts.)
Pidley (Cambs.)
Puddledock (Norfolk)
Shop (Cornwall)
Simonsbath (Somerset)
Slip End (Beds.)
Snig's End (Gloucs.)
Sockburn (Co. Durham)
Tiltups End (Avon)
Titson (Cornwall)
Tittensor (Staffs.)
Turner's Puddle (Dorset)
Twelveheads (Cornwall)
Warboys (Cambs.)
Washaway (Cornwall)
Watchet (Somerset)
Waterhouses (Staffs.)
Willey (shrops.)
Windy Yet (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Wormegay (Norfolk)
Wormwood Scrubs (London)
Yelling (Cambs.)

Others in Britain (County unknown):
Climping
Crackaig
Crackpot - see picture below!
Eric Gotobed
Fattahead
Goonbelle
Middle Wallop
Wormelow Tump
Yonder Bognie

Princess Yum-Yum

Puddledub, in Scotland (Fife, I think). It's funny because a 'dub' is a Scottish word for a puddle.

And then there's a village called Unthank, in Cumbria. Wonder what went on there in the dim and distant past - and is there another village called Thank?

Sasi

Crapstone, on the edge of Dartmoor Forrest.

Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire.

Crinkill, near Birr in Ireland (where all the old crinklies live?)

Poodle

spittal & wormit

jet-set

Two near to each other villages in Kent, are :

Badgers Mount

and

Locks Bottom.

In Essex there's a village called Ugly.
A friend belongs to The Ugly Womens' Institute.

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Apes Hall (Norfolk)
Bishops Itchington (unk)
Boysack (Tayside, Scot.)
Brokenborough (Avon)
Burnt Houses (Co. Durham)
California (Norfolk)
Cannard's Grave (Somerset)
Carlingcott (Avon)
Caynham (Shrops.)
Clappers (Lothian, Scotland)
Climpy (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Crackport (County unknown) See picture below!
Devizes (Wilts.)
Diss (Norfolk)
Dollarbeg (Fife, Scotland)
Dorking, Surrey
Duck End (Essex)
Egypt (Hamps.)
Felldownhead (Devon)
Folly Gate (Devon)
Foulden (Lothian, Scotland)
Frisby On The Wreake (Leics.)
Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
Godolphin Cross (Somerset)
Goosey (Oxfords.)
Great Snoring (Norfolk)
Gurney Slade (Avon)
Ham and Sandwich (Kent)
Herodsfoot (Cornwall)
Herringfleet (Norfolk)
Hetton-le-Hole (Co. Durham)
High Ham (Somerset)
Hopton Wafers (Shrops.)
Jump, So. Yorks
Killiecrankie (Tayside, Scot.)
Kilmahog (Central Scotland)
Kilmany (Fife, Scot.)
Knockdown (Avon)
Knockin (Shrops.)
Leatherhead (Exeter)
Little Horwood (Bucks.)
Little Snoring (Norfolk)
Little Sodbury (Avon)
Little Town (Cumbria)
Little Wratting (Cambs.)
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWL... Anglesy, Wales
Lower Down (Shrops.)
Mockbeggar (Kent)
Mousehole (Cornwall)
Much Haddam (Cambs.)
Nasty (Herts.)
Nether Poppleton (North Yorkshire)
New Invention (Wales)
North Piddle (Worcs.)
Peasedown St. John (Wilts.)
Pidley (Cambs.)
Puddledock (Norfolk)
Shop (Cornwall)
Simonsbath (Somerset)
Slip End (Beds.)
Snig's End (Gloucs.)
Sockburn (Co. Durham)
Tiltups End (Avon)
Titson (Cornwall)
Tittensor (Staffs.)
Turner's Puddle (Dorset)
Twelveheads (Cornwall)
Warboys (Cambs.)
Washaway (Cornwall)
Watchet (Somerset)
Waterhouses (Staffs.)
Willey (shrops.)
Windy Yet (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Wormegay (Norfolk)
Wormwood Scrubs (London)
Yelling (Cambs.)
Climping
Crackaig
Crackpot
Eric Gotobed
Fattahead
Goonbelle
Middle Wallop
Wormelow Tump
Yonder Bognie

Pompal '09.

Dorset is pretty wet, with amongst others:
Piddlehinton
Piddletrenthide
Puddletown
Tolpuddle
Turnerspuddle
Briantspuddle
Affpuddle
Tincleton

and last, but not least, you also have SHAGGS in Dorset.

dave o

Twatt in the orkneys or Wetwang in Yorks

weasel bat

Nomansland theres a few in the Uk with this or similar name.

>woohoo<

Yell, in the Shetland Isles

7daysandnights

Cockfosters in London is pretty basic.

fiona

Ae

In Dumfries-shire.

trisha

Wyre Piddle near Pershore Worcs

manxbiker

how about upatopadownieyonder there is such a place believe me i know someone who lives there

anwen55

Lower Peover & Higher Peover (Cheshire)

choccy_002

Nob End - near Bolton, Lancs. (Seriously!)

migelito

Pratts Bottom, near Biggin Hill

Ian M

There's a place in Scotland near cambuslang called "Halfway" Don't know if anybody ever gets there

Python

try these

Ale and Cakes (a copper mine 1884, Cornwall, UK)
Air (Aberdeenshire, UK)
Amble by the Sea (Northumberland, UK)
Allanstank (Aberdeenshire, Scotland)
Beggars Bush (Sussex)
Bell End near Lickey End (Wales, UK)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)

Raha

Wetwang
Blubberhouses

martys34uk

How about Legenanny County Down?

Northern Spriggan

Boggle Hole near Whitby
(just a mad name!)

Pity Me
Small town in Co Durham

JAMES

hazelbury plucknet
A place in Devon.

darksilverfox

Stroke-on-tent in Staffordshire

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