Someone Made A Map Of Every Rude Place Name In The UK

[KawaiiKawaii]

Where would you place me?

And me too!

[Longbowman]

And me too!

Switzerland.

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[Kazimiera]

Where would you place me?

You must be from Lickers Lane.

And me too!

Whamtown!

Graham is from Scotman's Flash!

[Kazimiera]

Arberori: Cocking Causeway or Nether End. No, Cockintake is the place. Most definitely.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Some more cheeky names for places in Britain...

1. Minge Lane, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire.

2. Slag Lane, Lowton, Lancashire.

3. Fanny Hands Lane, Ludford, Lincolnshire.

4. Bell End, Rowley Regis, West Midlands.

5. Crotch Crescent, Marston, Oxfordshire.

6. The Knob, Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire.

7. Cock Lane, Farringdon, London.

8. Cockshoot Close, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.

9. Cumming Street, Islington, London.

10. Cock A-Dobby, Sandhurst, Berkshire.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n...street-3180887

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/25/galler...names-4317734/

[♥ Lily ♥]

Scratchy Bottom, Dorset
Shitterton, Dorset
Back Passage, London
Sandy Balls, Hampshire
Titty Ho, Northhamptonshire
The Knob, Oxfordshire
Wham Bottom Lane, Lancashire
Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
Balls Cross, West Sussex
Dicks Mount, Suffolk
Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
Brown Willy, Cornwall
Pratts Bottom, Kent
Hooker Road, Norwich
Three Cocks, Powys
Crapstone, Devon
Happy Bottom, Dorset

http://www.shaolintiger.com/2005/09/...mes-in-the-uk/

[Porpolita]

Fingringhoe, Essex
Shepherd's Bush, London
Cockfosters, London

Bonus: When I used to take the bus to work in Goodmayes, there was a stop called Herbert Gardens, but I always thought the automated voice was saying "Pervert Gardens"

[♥ Lily ♥]

A lot of these words had different meanings in older English, such as 'bottom' could mean the lower area of a hill and a cock is an old word in English literature meaning a rooster bird. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster

[♥ Lily ♥]

I was reading about the meanings behind some of the place names
in my original home county of Dorset where I stem from and thought I'd share this article.

Dorset's Quirky Place Names.

Dorset has its fair share of strange place names -
have you ever wondered what Shitterton, Old Harry and Piddle mean?
Find out here the stories behind the names.

It's helpful to think of place names as linguistic fossils.
By tracing each name to its earliest spelling, you can find out what it really means.

The original spelling of some names can be confusing.
For instance, Wool has nothing to do with sheep and Beer has no brewery.
Spellings have changed over time. Wool comes from 'well' and Beer from 'baer'.

Most Dorset place names are of Old English or Anglo-Saxon origin.

The oldest place names are of Celtic origin – river names like Cerne, Char,
Lim, Trent and Wey.


Old Harry Rocks

'The work of the devil!'

It seems that Dorset residents have had an imaginative belief
in the devil's activities here in the county.

For instance, Agglestone in Studland means in Old English 'Prince's Stone'.

According to folklore, this massive block of sandstone was said
to have been thrown from the devil
from the Isle of Wight in order to demolish Corfe Castle!

Dewlish, an old Celtic name, is believed to mean 'devilish'.
It is named after the stream that runs through the village,
which is now called Devil's Brook.

Old Harry's rocks in Studland were named more recently, in the 18th century.
But that didn't stop locals giving the sea-stack the devil's nickname, Old Harry.

Pokesdown was thought to have been haunted by a puck or a goblin.
And Grim's Ditch was named after a Germanic heathen god
who residents believed was responsible for the area's earthworks.

'Wretched or miserable'!

Other places had less supernatural names.
Unfortunately for those who live there now, Bleet Farm in Gillingham means, in Old English, 'wretched or miserable'.

More positively, Fortuneswell on Portland means 'lucky well or spring', or perhaps 'well or spring in which fortunes can be told'.

And Dorset wasn't a place to live if you were a criminal.

Three Legged Cross in Verwood was named after the gallows, which were often nicknamed the three legged mare.

Worgret, near Wareham, also means gallows which in Old English
were called 'wearg-rod'.

Piddle Valley

The Piddle Valley is often cause for tittering, but Piddle in Old English
just means 'marsh or fen'.

Piddletrenthide was described in the Domesday Book as
an 'estate on the River Piddle assessed at thirty hides'.
'Trente' comes from French for thirty and 'hide' comes from Old English,
meaning a hide of land.

Shitterton, too, is one of Dorset's rudest names.

It means 'farm at the stream used as a sewer' from the Old English 'scitere' and 'tun'.

Locals prefer to call the village Sitterton –
but there's no getting away from what its name really means.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/..._feature.shtml