strange & funny village names

[DavyR]

spangles:

Higher and Lower peeover in cheshire. Dave

Any points for a successful challenge? It's actually spelt "Peover" and pronounced "Peever"!

[Guest NickInTheNorth]

Just collected this lot:

 

Buttock Point (map)

55.2 miles

 

Nest of Fannich (map)

66.8 miles

 

Cock of Arran (map)

69.4 miles

 

Fanny Hill (map)

71.0 miles

 

Fanny Burn (map)

71.3 miles

 

Spunkie (map)

72.8 miles

 

Hoe Rape (map)

72.8 miles

 

Thundergay (map)

73.3 miles

 

Turdees (map)

79.5 miles

 

Assloss (map)

81.2 miles

[DavyR]

It really p***es me off when perfectly good names are changed, e.g. "Buttock's Booth" in Northampton became "Boothville" and "Sluts' Lane" in Lindfield (Sussex) became "Snowdrop Lane"...

[Andy_1984]

nick you must be prety close to me. here are mines

 

Spunkie

 

Turdees

 

Assloss

 

Dickland

 

Fatlips Castle

 

Fanny Hill

 

Fanny Burn

 

Buttock Point

 

Cock of Arran

 

Dykes Road

[Chris Plumb]

Very amusing - here's mine....

 

Pishill (map)

14.1 miles

 

Golden Balls (map)

16.7 miles

 

Crotch Crescent (map)

23.3 miles

 

Wet Pits (map)

25.2 miles

 

Cuckoo's Knob (map)

25.4 miles

 

Herbert's Hole (map)

28.8 miles

 

Titty Hill (map)

32.5 miles

 

Balls Cross (map)

36.9 miles

 

Sodom (map)

37.3 miles

 

Knob Hill (map)

41.7 miles

 

 

 

 

C.

[Peter Waller]

You are right Davey. There used to be a place in Chichester Harbour known for generations as Stink Finger Beach. The incomers didn't like it, its now called East Point!

 

Where I live we have a pub called 'The Lady of the Lake'. Locally it has always been refered to as 'The Bitch in the Ditch', or just the 'Bitch'. New Landlord comes in and has a nice, new pub sign made up, one name on one side and the other on the other, good bloke. Then some loud mouth Londoner moves in, forms a resident's committee, and complains to the brewery so now the posh name is on both sides of the sign.

 

[ 19. August 2005, 02:47 PM: Message edited by: Peter Waller ]

[DavyR]

I'm with the loud mouth Londoner! If *everyone* knows the local name, it's not so easy to play the time-honoured English pub game of "confuse the non-local". Now everyone knows the stuff like "WYBMADIITY", it's the only way the locals can have fun!

 

What is *really* reprehensible is when pubs called the King's Head become the "Ferret and Flagpole", or some such nonsense... :mad:

[Wag]

Think we have problems in Britain:-

 

Austria

[MrWiggly]

Whilst Riding around England I've come across lots of signs for "Hidden Dip" ... never found the place tho' ....

[DonRamos]

There's a place called "Langton Matravers" in Dorset.

 

Not that funny until you hear it said out loud in a Dorset accent.

 

Ooh Arr my Lover