Towns named after animals
Catbrain (been there! Above Bristol.)
Catworth
Dog Village
Weston-Under-Lizard
...and body parts
Upper Sharp Nose
Lower Sharp Nose
Long Nose Spit
Maidenhead
Devil's Elbow
Leatherhead
Axmouth
Guy's Head
Greenhead
Braintree
...and a lot about bottoms and stains
Prat's Bottom
5 Mile Bottom
6 Mile Bottom
Butcombe
Butsfield
Toot Hill Butts (actually a road near C.S. Lewis' house in Oxford.)
Staines
Stainforth
Staindrop
....strange & unpleasant diseases
Burnfoot
Cockshutt
Dramrash
Sotshole
and the ones about food:
BeerHam
Fakenham
Bacon End
Hamstarley
Heartburn
Buttertubs
Cheesefoothead (one of my very favourites)
Chard
Chew Magna
...now that's too silly:
Wigtwizzle
Seething
Mold
Moss
Mitton
Goosey
Puckelchurch
Ballybofey
Dingley
Hoo
Dallinghoo
Netherwallop
Blean
Bleasby
Ashton-Upon-Ribble
Baslow-With-Bubnell
.....I've left the best for last (drumroll...)
Great Heck
Netherthong
Wetwang
Whaplode
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Ah yes, the beautiful Heartburn, England. Not to be upstaged by Damrash, I mean Dramrash.
I can hardly type, my eyes are watering.
And I forgot to add 'Wookie Hole' and 'Meathop'.
oh england and your dirty medieval town names. there's somewhere called nasty, and my favourite which isn't really rude/unpleasant/funny, but still daft, 'pink green,' though i do get copious amounts of pleasure saying stow on the wold. bill bryson talks about the wonders of english town/village names a lot in his books. an excellent list so far though, very comprehensive.
Oh, but how could you miss out upper and lower Piddle?
When I was a kid my Dad used to do a detour when we went on holiday, just to go through the Piddles....
But we're not the only ones with silly/rude place names. I have in fact been to Wanker's Corner in Oregon!
Anna.
Penistone is my favourite, "hard to beat"
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