Crinkly Bottom, and other 'rude' town names..

[desprateseagull]

http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/funny-place-names-ireland-998203-Jul2013/


What can Sussex come up with..?yet to check through here-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_East_Sussex

see also-
http://www.anglotopia.net/ultimate-list-of-funny-british-place-names/

 

[Superphil]

Upper Dicker, Lower Dicker?

Locally to us we have a hamlet called Gay Street, and a road called The Juggs.

Elsewhere, Pratts Bottom, Six Mile Bottom, Thong, and of course, in Pennsylvania they have a town called Intercourse.

 

[bravohotelalpha]

And can someone please tell me what blackboys is all about

 

[desprateseagull]

depends how you say em, i guess- some just sound painful!

Balbreak
Bodyham
Buttolphs
Cocking Causeway
Countersole
Gueffling
Horated Kryne
Little Horfled
Monjcomb
Nordchaf
Peasmerde
Pertslade
Poyaings
Puddinghoe
Stenclinch
West Chitting

 

[User Removed]

There's a couple of Twatt's in the UK - one in the Shetlands, and one in Orkney.

Also in Worcestershire there's a Bell End.

 

[Superphil]

Fulking

 

[The Birdman]

Burwash in Kent!

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Upper Bottom!!!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Littlehampton

 

[desprateseagull]

Lewes Council have no sense of humour..
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36224&sid=d3c428f44bfb9415e5def1973cd22597

 

[User Removed]

Lewes Council have no sense of humour..
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36224&sid=d3c428f44bfb9415e5def1973cd22597

They've had no sense of humour and an intelligence download ever since The Amex was brought to the table.

Pathetic smalltime council.

 

[Bwian]

Balls Cross

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

And can someone please tell me what blackboys is all about

I can only assume that it was named after some boys what was black, innit.

Although the sensible explanation would have been a connection with the charcoal industry in the area.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I can only assume that it was named after some boys what was black, innit.

Although the sensible explanation would have been a connection with the charcoal industry in the area.

Correct ... it's a charcoal industry connection. But it's nothing to do with boys. It's "Black Wood", from the French "bois".

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Dorset is full of places with "rude" names. Shitterton (on the River Piddle) is probably top of the list.

The locals got fed up with people stealing the village sign, so they've built a new one out of a ton and a half of Purbeck stone.

 

[bravohotelalpha]

Correct ... it's a charcoal industry connection. But it's nothing to do with boys. It's "Black Wood", from the French "bois".

Thank you Lord B

 

[KZNSeagull]

Up until 1982, Hwange in Zimbabwe was called Wankie. It was the site of the ANC's first armed military operation in 1967 and the scene of a hideous colliery disaster in the 70's.

 

[somerset]

Up until 1982, Hwange in Zimbabwe was called Wankie. .

....and I have been there several times, up near Victoria Falls......I used to throw it into family dinner time conversations just to provoke a reaction from my old man........lol

....provoking reactions is what I do best,.... now where is today's Barnes thread.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I've always had a slight chuckle when driving through Jacks Bush in Hampshire. Juvenile I know

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Hassocks has always made me smile