Author Topic: who lives in a place like this ?  (Read 19661 times)

AndynJ

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • uk
  • Says it as it is. don't like it don't look
who lives in a place like this ?
« 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
« Last Edit: October 05, 2013, 06:47:10 am by AndynJ »

lachlanandmarcus

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2013, 08:14:29 am »
We once lived in Tyttenhanger :-o  :excited:

happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2013, 08:59:43 am »
 :roflanim:
I would love to live somewhere with a funny name!
 

lachlanandmarcus

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #3 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

happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #4 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:

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #5 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:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #6 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!

EcoGypsy

  • Joined Jul 2013
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Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2013, 10:58:34 am »
Not far away from here is Prickwillow, but we live in boring Soham  :innocent:

Carse Goodlifers

  • Joined Oct 2013
  • Perthshire
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2013, 04:13:29 pm »
On a cleaner note, there is a 'side Street' in Woodside/Burrelton, Perthshire

AndynJ

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • uk
  • Says it as it is. don't like it don't look
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #9 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

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2013, 09:50:36 pm »
There's a Pratt's Bottom in Sussex and Scratchy Bottom is Dorset.  ;D

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #11 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

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #12 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
« Last Edit: October 05, 2013, 11:38:24 pm by Fleecewife »
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tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #13 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

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
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Re: who lives in a place like this ?
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2013, 04:56:09 am »
There's a hamlet near hear called Lucky Slap

 

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