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Title: who lives in a place like this ?
Post by: AndynJ on October 05, 2013, 06:44:42 am
Cocks, & brownwilly, Cornwall  Minge Lane, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, Bell End,                                      Twatt, Shetland (note, there is another Twatt in Orkney)  Fingringhoe, Essex, England
Back Passage, City of London, an alleyway in the EC1 postal district
Shitterton, Dorset, (the public toilets won an award last year)  :thumbsup:
Slag Lane, Merseyside, a residential street in Haydock, how appropriate  :roflanim:
Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire,
Dick Court, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Spanker Lane, Nether Heage, Derbyshire
Friars' Entry, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Butt Hole Road, Conisbrough, South Yorkshire
Cockermouth, Allerdale, Cumbria

Fine Bush Lane, Ruislip "really"  :thinking:
Hornyold Road, Malvern, Worcestershire,
Cumming Court, Pitville, Gloucestershire,
Just up the road from upton snodsbury you have wyre piddle
The lake district have cockup & little cockup  ???  WHY
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Post by: lachlanandmarcus on October 05, 2013, 08:14:29 am
We once lived in Tyttenhanger :-o  :excited:
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Post by: happygolucky on October 05, 2013, 08:59:43 am
 :roflanim:
I would love to live somewhere with a funny name!
 
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Post by: lachlanandmarcus on October 05, 2013, 09:08:16 am
:roflanim:
I would love to live somewhere with a funny name!


People tried to be polite by saying, is that pronounced 'Titenhanger'? And we had to say nope, it's Tittenhanger!


Altho they were right really, it's Anglo Saxon meaning 'Tydda's hanging ridge' apparently.....Tydda being a local Saxon  bigwig
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Post by: happygolucky on October 05, 2013, 09:29:01 am
There was a village near where I used to live called Hanging Houghton, my X husband used to say its were all the big nobs hang out!! :innocent:
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Post by: doganjo on October 05, 2013, 09:51:20 am
:roflanim:
I would love to live somewhere with a funny name!
You do!  Think about it.  Mannan stone - what kind of stone  :innocent:
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Post by: happygolucky on October 05, 2013, 10:00:36 am
The stone always brings a smile to peoples faces and so many people have their photo taken next to it!
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Post by: EcoGypsy on October 05, 2013, 10:58:34 am
Not far away from here is Prickwillow, but we live in boring Soham  :innocent:
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Post by: Carse Goodlifers on October 05, 2013, 04:13:29 pm
On a cleaner note, there is a 'side Street' in Woodside/Burrelton, Perthshire
Title: Re: who lives in a place like this ?
Post by: AndynJ on October 05, 2013, 04:36:34 pm
We actually don't live at Dawlish we live in Cockwood, I didn't even add that one to the list, its pronounced cock oood  :thumbsup:
Thanks for all the replies
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 05, 2013, 09:50:36 pm
There's a Pratt's Bottom in Sussex and Scratchy Bottom is Dorset.  ;D
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Post by: jaykay on October 05, 2013, 10:31:17 pm
Not as rude, but certainly odd, we have villages called Pity Me and Unthank. Who names these places?  :D
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Post by: Fleecewife on October 05, 2013, 11:35:46 pm
I hardly dare put this one, as it contains a word I never use, but there used to be a 'grope ***t lane', in London somewhere I think.  It went a bit upmarket recently and the very proper ladies there got it renamed.  Although I hate the word, the street name always makes me laugh as it certainly says it how it is  :o
 
 
Other than that, I love Wyre Piddle, which sounds like a medical affliction  ;D
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Post by: tizaala on October 06, 2013, 02:00:21 am
We have friends with the address " Walking Bottom, Peaslake".


( Oh gord, I'll probably get told off for posting something slightly funny now, ) :o
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Post by: Rosemary on October 06, 2013, 04:56:09 am
There's a hamlet near hear called Lucky Slap
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Post by: AndynJ on October 06, 2013, 07:19:11 am
I think these have made a few people smile that's great  :excited: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Padge on October 06, 2013, 08:04:11 am
In a small Lincolnshire village not too far from here there's Fanny Hands Lane....... :D
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Post by: EcoGypsy on October 06, 2013, 09:49:51 am
Six Mile Bottom in Suffolk nr Newmarket, if we are around bottoms...
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Post by: john and helen on October 06, 2013, 11:10:22 am
We actually don't live at Dawlish we live in Cockwood, I didn't even add that one to the list, its pronounced cock oood  :thumbsup:
Thanks for all the replies

but the locals pronounce it cockhood , which i guess is worse  :roflanim:
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Post by: darkbrowneggs on October 06, 2013, 11:38:33 am
In the first office I ever worked in two teenage boy trainees had to go out to a property in Minge Lane in Upton, they were in stitches for days.  Of ccurse back in the 70's girls were far more decorious so non of the female staff understood any connotation and the boys wouldn't let on just sniggered which made all the female staff really cross


Found out many years later that it was named Minge Lane for a reason and it was all written up in a local history of the area  -   how times change!!!
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Post by: happygolucky on October 06, 2013, 11:56:36 am
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Quote
Found out many years later that it was named Minge Lane for a reason and it was
all written up in a local history of the area  -   how times
change!!!
  :roflanim: :roflanim: .....do tell us!!  :roflanim:
 
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Post by: darkbrowneggs on October 06, 2013, 12:05:47 pm
I think it was the local place to "hook up" with the local "ladies of the night"  Surely I don't need to be more explicit than that do I  :o




But if it still means nothing then just check out the definition at the online Oxford English Dictionary
Title: Re: who lives in a place like this ?
Post by: happygolucky on October 06, 2013, 12:21:48 pm
H ahahah.....that's funny as we got caught out going to a local "dogging" wood, nothing whatsoever to do with dogs may I add...we made a hastily retreat and our oldest dog ran off spooked buy what she had just seen......so want to pull up there with my lights flashing on my Dog Unit  Landrover  ha ha hahah It would scare the *rap out of any lovers!! :roflanim:
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Post by: AndynJ on October 06, 2013, 01:35:52 pm
so do explain what's minge ? and what's a dogging wood ?  :thinking:
six mile bottom in Suffolk, we have a 3 mile bottom here in Devon (have you met my wife)  :innocent:
Title: Re: who lives in a place like this ?
Post by: happygolucky on October 06, 2013, 01:49:03 pm
 :roflanim: :roflanim: ......AndynJ, I think you will have to google image them..but mayb take yor parental contrôl off and shut the curtains as well as get rid if any minors.............far too lady like to say on here :innocent:
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Post by: lokismum on October 06, 2013, 04:17:41 pm
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LMAO
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 :thumbsup: WELL DONE FOR FINDING THEM ALL
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Post by: Fleecewife on October 06, 2013, 04:31:27 pm
so do explain what's minge ?  :innocent:

A part of a lady's anatomy, pretty similar to the one I quoted  :o :roflanim:  but a tiny bit nicer.
 
I have always lived in a houseful of males so I know these things  ;D :bow:
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Post by: EcoGypsy on October 06, 2013, 07:34:02 pm
Ahhh, forgot to add Pratt street here in Soham!
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Post by: Fleecewife on October 07, 2013, 12:26:00 am
In Biggar we have John Street, which is rather delightfully where the public toilets are.
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Post by: john and helen on October 07, 2013, 09:22:53 am
we use to have s**t brook street in exeter, it was named by the romans, when it was a roman town, and it was actually their sewerage outlet , later to be changed to long brook street ...

i have seen a crapper lane, but can't remember where
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Post by: Brijjy on October 07, 2013, 11:35:59 am
There's a Bogey Lane in Pontesbury near to me. My son would love to live there, it appeals to his sense of the absurd. And there's a load of Wallops near Chipping Norton.
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Post by: MAK on October 07, 2013, 09:13:22 pm
Not sure how it is spelt but there is a village in Essex ( near Newport) that the locals call Ugley. And yes there is The Ugley Womans Institute.
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Post by: AndynJ on October 07, 2013, 10:15:13 pm
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Post by: SteveHants on October 07, 2013, 10:52:20 pm
I hardly dare put this one, as it contains a word I never use, but there used to be a 'grope ***t lane', in London somewhere I think.  It went a bit upmarket recently and the very proper ladies there got it renamed.  Although I hate the word, the street name always makes me laugh as it certainly says it how it is  :o
 
 
Other than that, I love Wyre Piddle, which sounds like a medical affliction  ;D


There used to be lots of similarly named streets - but the victorians changed a lot of them. If you know of a local 'love or lovers lane, street etc' thats usually what they changed it to.
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Post by: brendan lyons on October 08, 2013, 12:24:25 am
my local village is called plumbridge, not as good i know, but still kinda odd
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Post by: cloddopper on October 08, 2013, 01:00:15 am
Lloyd Else my pal lives in "  Folkham Hall " the local parish councillors tried to get it banned as registered address for it means  exactly how lloyd felt about the parish & town  councillors after a major planning battle that cost him a fortune to win  .

 Not many miles away in Lincolnshire is the village of Folkingham pronounced exactly as Lloyd says it .
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Post by: Padge on October 08, 2013, 06:43:53 am
lol.......meet 'The Fockers' :roflanim:
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Post by: Alistair on October 08, 2013, 03:27:12 pm

Slag Lane, Merseyside, a residential street in Haydock, how appropriate  :roflanim:



Now you may not believe me, but I live less than 100yds from slag lane in Haydock and walk my dogs down slag lane every day, it's not residential it's got a farm off it and that's about it

There are no slags on slag lane

There are on the other hand plenty of slags living on station road which is about 200yds away

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Post by: AndynJ on October 08, 2013, 09:35:06 pm
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Post by: cloddopper on October 09, 2013, 11:16:27 pm
Near to Fotheringhay on the A605 is a road called " Bullocks road " .. The county & local councils gave up replacing or cleaning the sign of a few extra micro grams of paint or marker pen .
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Post by: AndynJ on October 10, 2013, 04:20:22 am
 :roflanim: Fantastic, we went out yesterday couldn't stop laughing saw a sign for Outer Ting Tong, 2 streets further and we come across pooh cottage holiday park  :roflanim:
On the way home came across a Macdonalds in a random place the entrance to macdonalds was also the entrance to the college of nutrition  :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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Post by: sabrina on October 10, 2013, 11:16:57 am
I was brought up in Biggar in Lanarkshire. The Biggar High School, market, butchers, baker, park. Standing joke when I was at school. Also worked for a family called Twatt once who came from Orkney.
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Post by: happygolucky on October 10, 2013, 11:55:09 am
These are all so funny.... :roflanim:
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Post by: cloddopper on October 10, 2013, 10:38:58 pm
I was brought up in Biggar in Lanarkshire. The Biggar High School, market, butchers, baker, park. Standing joke when I was at school. Also worked for a family called Twatt once who came from Orkney.

  :idea:   Well they would be coming from the Orkney's
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Post by: AndynJ on October 11, 2013, 03:59:59 am
If this is allowed my brother in law is called Mr (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/file://\\r) tickle  :roflanim: so is my sister now  :roflanim: :roflanim: both teachers  :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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Post by: tizaala on October 13, 2013, 08:08:34 am
http://www.sandyballs.co.uk/ (http://www.sandyballs.co.uk/)
 
A HOLIDAY PARK IN THE NEW  FOREST.


AND THIS PLACE
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Post by: happygolucky on October 13, 2013, 02:06:50 pm
 :excited:  been to Sandy balls, seen them too :innocent: