Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

[Roo Dog]

Pmowers,

There is a Woy Woy in Oz as well.
In one of the hottest and driest parts is a Siberia and Niagara. The latter supposedly named by a prospector after some rare rain which left a short term 3 foot waterfall in a normally dry creek bed.

RD

[wagondude]

We have some oddballs here in Missouri.

Aud
Conception
Knob Lick
Ink
Low Wassle
Neck City
Tiff
Village of Four

Ya forgot Peculiar...

I was going to say that. Then there are the signs that tell you how far it is to Whiteman (like there is only one of them in the former slave state). Of course we all know that Whiteman is the Airforce base where the bombers live.

[rmclarke]

I live about 18 mi southeast of Lookingglass and about 9 mi north of Riddle........in Oregon

[jstrubberg]

I didn't forget Peculiar, I just didn't think it was odd enough to make the list!

Or is that Aud enough...

[Corwin C]

Some of the odd ones around Utah ... it took a while to find this, but it's worth it.

[Rainier70]

That's great! Fun video!

[angib]

Surprisingly, not in the American West, but towards the western end of England.

The only place name in Great Britain with an exclamation mark (officially) in it.

[nevadatear]

I live in Lovelock, pronounced just like you think. But it's no Toad Suck Arkansas. I have a picture of the sign. Then there is Battle Mountain, NV. Not so strange itself, but they have a big "BM" painted on the mountainside of the town. Pizen Switch is a lovely little former town in NV. We live right close to Rye Patch Reservoir, and the majority leader of the Senate is from Searchlight, NV.

[Jiminsav]

I can think of Ogg's hat, NJ..in the pine barrens.
Hopeulikit GA.
there may be a hopeulikit in Alabama too.
Clito GA..outside statesboro..which is what the Alman Bro's is singing about.

[rmclarke]

There is also a Boring, Oregon along with Idiotville and Wankers Corner....

[Roo Dog]

I understand there is a place in England name Tooting or is it Little Tooting or Upper Tooting.
Something to do with Tooting anyway.

So my wife tells me anyway but being of English birth she is not to be trusted when it comes to relating stories to a member of one of the colonies, such as me.

RD

[webbaldo]

The UK is full of em here lol

Funny English Village and Place Names in England
◾Acock’s Green, Worcestershire, UK
◾Babes Well, Durham, UK
◾Bachelors Bump, Essex, UK
◾Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
◾Balls Green, Kent, England
◾Balls Cross, WestSussex
◾Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK
◾Barking, Essex
◾Beaver Close, Surrey
◾Bedlam Bottom, Hampshire, UK
◾Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
◾Beer, Devon, UK
◾Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime
◾Bell End near Lickey End
◾Bishops Itchington, Staffs, UK
◾Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
◾Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK
◾Booty Lane, NorthYorkshire
◾Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
◾Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK
◾Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK
◾Bushygap, Northumberland, UK
◾Catholes, Cumbria
◾Catsgore, Somerset, UK
◾Charles Bottom, Devon, UK
◾Clap Hill, village in Kent, UK
◾Clay Bottom, Bristol, UK
◾Cock Alley, Calow, UK
◾Cock Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK
◾Cock Green, nr Braintree
◾Cock Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK
◾Cock Law, Northumberland, UK
◾Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk
◾Cockermouth, Cumbria
◾Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK
◾Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK
◾Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK
◾Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK
◾Cockplay, Northumberland, UK
◾Cocks, Cornwall
◾Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
◾Cockshot, Northumberland, UK
◾Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK
◾Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK
◾Coldwind, Cornwall, UK
◾Crackington Haven, Cornwall, UK
◾Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK
◾Crapstone, Devon
◾Crotch Crescent, Oxford
◾Deans Bottom, Kent, UK
◾Devil’s Lapful, Northumberland, UK
◾Dicks Mount, Suffolk
◾Drinkstone, Suffolk, UK
◾Faggot, Northumberland, UK
◾Fanny Barks, Durham, UK
◾Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
◾Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
◾Feltham Close, Hampshire
◾Feltwell, Norfolk
◾Fingringhoe, Essex
◾Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK
◾Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
◾Fruitfall Cove, Cornwall, UK
◾Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside
◾Gay Street, Sussex. UK
◾Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK
◾Giggleswick, Staincliffe, Nth. Yorkshire, UK
◾Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK
◾Gravelly Bottom Road, nr Langley Heath, Kent, UK
◾Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK
◾Great Horwood, Bucks, UK
◾Great Tosson, Northumberland
◾Grope Lane, Shropshire
◾Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire, UK
◾Happy Bottom, Dorset
◾Helstone, Cornwall, UK
◾Hole Bottom, Yorkshire, UK
◾Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire
◾Holly Bush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK
◾Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
◾Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
◾Hooker Road, Norwich
◾Horncastle, Linconshire
◾Horneyman, Kent, UK
◾Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, UK
◾Horwood, Devon, UK
◾Jeffries Passage, Surrey
◾Jolly’s Bottom, Cornwall, UK
◾Juggs Close, EastSussex
◾Knockerdown, Derbyshire, UK
◾Letch Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds, UK
◾Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK
◾Lickers Lane, Merseyside
◾Lickey End, Worcestershire, UK
◾Lickfold, West Sussex
◾Little Horwood, Bucks, UK
◾Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
◾Long Lover Lane, Halifax
◾Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
◾Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
◾Minge Lane, Worcestershire
◾Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
◾Nether Wallop, Hampshire
◾Nob End, South Lancashire, UK
◾Nork Rise, Surrey
◾North Piddle, Worcestershire
◾Ogle Close, Merseyside
◾Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
◾Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
◾Over Peover, Cheshire, UK
◾Pant, Shropshire
◾Penistone, Sth Yorkshire, UK
◾Piddle River, Dorset, UK
◾Pork Lane, Essex
◾Pratt’s Bottom, Kent
◾Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
◾Pump Alley, Middlesex
◾Ram Alley, Wiltshire, UK
◾Ramsbottom, Lancs, UK
◾Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
◾Sandy Balls, Hampshire
◾Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK
◾Shaggs, Dorset, UK
◾Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
◾Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK
◾Shitterton, Dorset
◾Shittington,, Bedfordshire, UK
◾Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK
◾Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK
◾Slag Lane, Merseyside
◾Slip End, Beds, UK
◾Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
◾Snatchup, Hertfordshire
◾Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.
◾Spitalin the Street, Lincolnshire
◾Splatt, Cornwall, UK
◾Staines, Surrey
◾Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK
◾Swell, Somerset
◾The Blind Fiddler, Cornwall, UK
◾The Bush, Buckinghamshire
◾The Furry, Cornwall
◾The Knob, Oxfordshire
◾Thong, Kent
◾Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
◾Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK
◾Titlington Mount, Northumberland
◾Titty Hill, Sussex, UK
◾Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
◾Tosside, Lancashire
◾Turkey Cock Lane, Colchester, Essex, UK
◾Ugley, Essex
◾Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK
◾Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK
◾Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker, East Sussex, UK
◾Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
◾Wash Dyke, Norfolk, UK
◾Weedon Lois, Northampton
◾Weedon, in the Parish of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire, UK
◾Weeford, Staffordshire, UK
◾Wet Rain, Yorkshire, UK
◾Wetwang, East Yorkshire
◾WhamBottomLane, Lancashire
◾Wideopen, Newcastle, UK
◾Willey, Warwickshire
◾Winkle Street, Southampton
◾Wormegay, Norfolk, UK

Funny Place Names in Scotland
◾Ardfork, Aberdeenshire
◾Ardgay, Ross & Cromarty, UK
◾Assloss, Ayrshire, Scotland
◾Backside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
◾Backside, Banffshire, Scotland
◾Ballownie, Angus, UK
◾Blackdikes, Angus
◾Bladda, Paisley
◾Forest Dyke Road, Lanarkshire
◾Boghead, Ayrshire
◾Boysack, Angus, Scot.
◾Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire
◾Butt of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland, UK
◾Cock of Arran, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK
◾Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
◾Dick Court, Lanarkshire
◾East Breast, Inverclyde
◾Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty, UK
◾Fattiehead, Banffshire, Scotland
◾Hillo’ManyStanes, Scotland
◾Inchbare, Angus, uk
◾Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
◾Inchmore, Aberdeenshire
◾Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
◾Stripeside, Banffshire, UK
◾Tarty, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
◾The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland, uk
◾Twatt, Orkney

Funny Welsh Place Names
◾Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
◾Cat’s Ash, Monmouthshire, Wales
◾Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
◾Penisarwaen, village in Gwynedd, UK
◾Sodom, Flintshire, Wales, UK
◾Splott, Cardiff, Wales
◾St.Mellons, Cardiff
◾Stop-and-Call, Pembrokeshire, UK
◾Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK
◾Three Cocks, Breconshire, Wales, UK

[Roo Dog]

Webbaldo,

I don't think anyone need post any more for a while.
It will take some time to digest that lot.

RD

[Rainier70]

What a crackup!

I would love to know how some of these towns got their names. Probably tamer than you would think, but still fascinating!




Cindy

[3nero]

We have a town here in Ireland called Muff..we passed through it on a camping trip and I found the place i would like to go back and visit.