strange & funny village names

[Gray-Catchpole]

these are ones near me, in south wales

 

Bullyhole Bottom

 

Box Bush Farm

 

Crab Hole

 

Snatch House

 

Lord Hereford's Knob

 

Booby Dingle

 

Penishapentre

 

Three Cocks

 

Box Tunne

 

Clitsome Farm (my fave)

[DavyR]

Quite surprised that Alan Stubbs (as a man of Kent , or is it Kentish man?) hasn't mentioned Pratt's Bottom....

[DavyR]

Peter Waller:

In Norwich there is a road called 'Rose Lane', so a Norwich person might say that they 'hiv just bin up Roose Lane', lucky girl. It must have stuck, its now the local kerb crawling area.

The same is said (or used to be) of Rose Hill in Carshalton!

[Tog]

This has got to be my favorite so far:-

Link

Wonder if anyone has recorded the Oral History yet?

[John S]

Penisstone

Cockermouth

Nempnet Thrubwell

[Scapanapper]

tuggs:

place called Twatt on mainland Orkney    

There are quite a few folk in Orkney with that as thier family name.

My daughter's first serious boy friend had that name.

The relationship did not last as I don't think she wanted to be Mrs Twatt

[argyll]

Lets not forget Knob Lick Kentucky. Some of the place names in China and Japan would close this thread down.

[MJB]

Wilsford cum Lake near Amesbury. Why cant they have water like everyone else? Then theres the Dorset Piddles.

[chevin]

Peter Waller:

 One of the locals cashed in by calling his bungalow 'Dyke Cottage' and made a few bob taking their pictures against the house name.

I went to a school in Geordieland that was actually called Dyke House! I don't know what it is called now, but I am sure that its name must have been changed!

[blindog]

Coulter Fanny

 

Fanny Hill

 

Fanny Burn

Drove threw Middle Fart in Denmark.