Here are some of the place names that have appeared in the Place Name of the Day feature in my newsgroup signature:
- Abington Pigotts near Cambridge.
- Ab Kettleby near Melton Mowbray.
- Ae near Dumfries. The shortest place name in Britain.
- Affpuddle near Dorchester.
- Agglethorpe in Coverdale, North Yorkshire.
- Arpafeelie north of Inverness.
- Badger's Mount near Farnborough.
- Balls Cross, West Sussex.
- Barton in the Beans, west of Leicester.
- Beeswing near Dumfries.
- Blackadder near Berwick upon Tweed.
- Blindcrake near Cockermouth, Cumbria.
- Blubberhouses near Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire. (anyone lost some
giant golf balls?)
- Blue Anchor on the Somerset coast.
- Botusfleming near Saltash, Cornwall.
- Brawl near Thurso at the top of Scotland.
- Briantspuddle near Dorchester.
- Brill east of Oxford. A really great place!
- Broadwoodwidger near Launceston.
- Burton-le-Coggles near Grantham.
- Cargo Fleet Middlesborough.
- Catbrain near Cribb's Causeway, north of Bristol.
- Chaldron Herring near Lulworth Cove.
- Chignall Smeally near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Chipping Sodbury east of Bristol.
- Clatter west of Newtown, Powys.
- Cleckheaton West Yorkshire.
- Clenchwarton near King's Lynn, Norfolk.
- Clock Face near St. Helen's, Merseyside.
- Compton Pauncefoot near Yeovil.
- Court Henry near Carmarthen.
- Crank near St. Helens, Merseyside.
- Coffinswell near Torquay, Devon.
- Dent near Sedbergh, North Yorkshire.
- Dog Village near Exeter.
- Diggle east of Oldham, Greater Manchester.
- Dukinfield, Tameside, Greater Manchester.
- Dull near Pitlochry.
- Duntisbourne Leer near Cirencester.
- Easter Kinkell near Dingwall, Inverness.
- Eccup north of Leeds.
- Ferwig, Cardigan.
- Fogo near Coldstream in the Borders.
- Frenchbeer on Dartmoor.
- Four Throws near Sandhurst, Kent.
- Germansweek near Launceston.
- George Nympton near Barnstaple.
- Giggleswick near Settle, North Yorkshire.
- Glossop, Derbyshire. What a nice word.
- Good Easter near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Goole, East Yorkshire. (Just for the sound of it.)
- Goonbell near Redruth, Cornwall.
- Goosnargh north of Preston.
- Green Street Green near Farnborough.
- Grike near Egremont, Cumbria.
- Grimness on South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
- Great Snoring near Walsingham, Norfolk.
- Grumbla near Lands End.
- Gussage St. Michael near Blandford Forum, Dorset.
- Hamsterley near Bishop Auckland (also Consett) Durham.
- Haselbury Plucknett near Yeovil.
- Heanton Punchardon near Barnstaple. (Might cause this page to be
rejected by certain software!)
- Heckmondwike east of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
- Heglibister on the Mainland of Shetland.
- Helions Bumpstead near Saffron Walden.
- Hinton Blewett between Bath and Weston super Mare.
- Hinton-in-the-Hedges near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
- Hole in the Wall near Ross-on-Wye.
- Hopton Wafers east of Ludlow.
- Howle north of Telford, Shropshire.
- Hoyland Swaine west of Barnsley.
- Huish Episcopi near Langport, Somerset.
- Idle near Bradford. (Idle Working Men's Club?)
- Indian Queens near Newquay, Cornwall.
- Inkpen near Newbury, Berkshire.
- Kemeys Commander near Pontypool, Gwent.
- Kettlesing Bottom west of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
- Killiecrankie near Pitlochrie.
- Kirkby Overblow south of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
- Kitty Brewster, Aberdeen.
- Landshipping near Pembroke. (Rival to Manchester Ship Canal?)
- Leake Hurn's End near Boston, west of the Wash.
- Leaves Green near Biggin Hill. (Except in Autumn?)
- Leonard Stanley near Stroud.
- Leysdown on Sea Isle of Sheppey, Kent (like on the Dead Sea?).
- Loggerheads between Stoke and Shrewsbury (also near Mold).
- Long Load near Yeovil.
- Loudwater near High Wickham.
- Lower Slaughter near Bourton on the Water.
- Mabe Burnthouse, Falmouth, Cornwall.
- Mankinholes near Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
- Mappowder near Dorchester.
- Melbury Bubb near Yeovil.
- Muggleswick near Consett, Durham.
- Mumbles, Swansea.
- Nasty near Stevenage. (Nasty Women's Institute?)
- Nempnett Thrubwell between Bath and Weston super Mare.
- Netherthong near Huddersfield.
- Nether Wallop near Andover.
- New Invention near Walsall, W. Midlands. (also in Shropshire)
- Old Wives Lees near Canterbury.
- Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn.
- Piddlehinton near Dorchester.
- Pity Me north of Durham.
- Polyphant near Launceston.
- Potto south of Stockton-on-Tees.
- Pratt's Bottom near Farnborough.
- Praze-an-Beeble near Cambourne.
- Queen Camel near Yeovil, Somerset.
- Ramsbottom north of Bury, Greater Manchester.
- Ratcliffe in the Wreake north of Leicester.
- Raw near Whitby. (naked or half-baked?)
- Ruyton-XI-Towns Shropshire.
- Ryme Intrinsica near Yeovil.
- Scagglethorpe near Malton, North Yorkshire.
- Sheepy Parva near Nuneaton.
- Shellow Bowells near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Six Mile Bottom near Cambridge.
- Sixpenny Handley near Blandford Forum.
- Throcking near Stevenage.
- Thrupp near Stroud (also one near Oxford)
- Thwing near Bridlington.
- Tincleton near Dorchester.
- Trull near Taunton.
- Trunch near Cromer.
- Turner's Puddle near Dorchester.
- Twatt on the Mainland of Orkney.
- Twenty near Spalding, Lincs.
- Twerton, Bath.
- Twelveheads near Redruth, Cornwall.
- Ugglebarnby near Whitby.
- Ugley near Bishop's Stortford. (Home of the Ugley Women's Institute?)
- Upend near Newmarket.
- Up Sydling near Dorchester.
- Upton Snodsbury near Worcester. (Borsetshire)
- Wendens Ambo near Saffron Walden.
- Wendy near Cambridge.
- Wergs, Wolverhampton.
- Westley Waterless near Cambridge.
- Westonzoyland near Bridgewater, Somerset.
- Westward Ho! Devon. The place with the pling!
- Wetwang near Bridlington.
- Wide Open, north of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Wigan, Greater Manchester. How could it escape?
- Wildboarclough near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
- Wincle near Macclesfield.
- Wittering near Peterborough. (No - there couldn't be a Wittering
Women's Institute, could there?)
- World's End west of Birmingham, also near Newbury.
- Wormiehills on the coast, east of Dundee.
- Wrangle near Boston, west of the Wash.
- Yarkhill east of Hereford.
- Yarrow Feus south of Edinburgh.
- Yetts O'Muckhart east of Stirling.
- Yockenthwaite in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire.
- Zeal Monachorum north-west of Exeter.
These place names were selected as some of them sounded unusual, some sounded
interesting and some just sounded funny. I am not going to say which I thought
was which!
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