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Strange Place Names

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  • markmc68
    markmc68 Posts: 1,593
    Tiddlywink. Near castle Combe  in Wiltshire. 
  • NorthheathAddick
    NorthheathAddick Posts: 4,036
    edited October 2019
    Wankdorf in Switzerland...

    drove through there a couple of yrs ago...saw the sign,wasn’t quite sure what i had read so turned around to make sure I wasn’t seeing things...
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,245
    NorthheathAddick said:
    Wankdorf in Switzerland...

    drove through there a couple of yrs ago...saw the sign,wasn’t quite sure what i had read so turned around to make sure I wasn’t seeing things...
    And did you?
  • Gillis
    Gillis Posts: 998
    Not a place name, but I never miss an opportunity to mention that Charles Dickens had an older sister called Fanny.
  • NorthheathAddick
    NorthheathAddick Posts: 4,036
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    NorthheathAddick said:
    Wankdorf in Switzerland...

    drove through there a couple of yrs ago...saw the sign,wasn’t quite sure what i had read so turned around to make sure I wasn’t seeing things...
    And did you?
    😂😂😲..,I defo didn’t or wasn’t Wankdorf in Switzerland..but did see the sign which was correct...😁
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,245
    edited October 2019
    NorthheathAddick said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    NorthheathAddick said:
    Wankdorf in Switzerland...

    drove through there a couple of yrs ago...saw the sign,wasn’t quite sure what i had read so turned around to make sure I wasn’t seeing things...
    And did you?
    😂😂😲..,I defo didn’t or wasn’t Wankdorf in Switzerland..but did see the sign which was correct...😁
    Go back to the sign with your beloved and do the deed underneath.  The best ever picture B)
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    orpingtonaddick said:
    There's a street called 'whip-ma-whop-ma-gate' in York
    I have a photo of me and a couple of mates by the sign. 
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,517
    Fanny Hands Lane......in a village near Louth.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,060


    Not the funniest ever, but made me think "oh Norman you old rascall". I wonder how our Mr Court earned that nickname
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,003

    Twinned with Selhurst

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  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Just north of Newcastle New South Wales is a quaint little town called Darawank.
  • Eynsfordaddick
    Eynsfordaddick Posts: 2,045
    Very close to where I grew up in Derbyshire, was a small place called Broadbottom, which always made me snigger as a child. 
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    LargeAddick said:
    just spotted a place in Northern Territory, Australia called Bing Bong. Made me laugh. Any others, especailly if you've been there.
    Wooloomooloo.....or something like that in Sydney.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
     Twatt in Orkney....
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,366
    Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Houyhnhnms.  

    None of them real, of course.  But I thought I would mention them because they were all included in Gulliver's Travels, first published today in 1726. 
  • Eynsfordaddick
    Eynsfordaddick Posts: 2,045
    Chizz said:
    Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Houyhnhnms.  

    None of them real, of course.  But I thought I would mention them because they were all included in Gulliver's Travels, first published today in 1726. 
    A wonderful piece of satire!
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,234
    I’ve always liked the name of Bat and Ball. 
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,054
    Cardinal Sin said:
     Twatt in Orkney....
    I thought that was in Belgium  :)
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    Harsh but fair! Spotted in NSW
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,851
    You couldn't make this one up.....

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankers_Corner,_Oregon

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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,245
    Big William said:
    You couldn't make this one up.....

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankers_Corner,_Oregon
    Strong support for palice there no doubt.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,245
    SE7toSG3 said:
    Harsh but fair! Spotted in NSW
    Is that you under the shades @blackpool72?
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    There's a village on the Welsh border called Knockin, just off the A5
    and beautifully Knockin has a shop
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,683
    Upton RFC's ground is at: Minge Lane, Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,412
    Sexmoan in the Philippines is one of my favourites. Then again, Thailand does quite well with Bangkok, Phuket and Bang Sue.


  • illichassavedit
    illichassavedit Posts: 254
    There is a place in South Africa called Dududu.  I really wanted to append the road direction sign with ‘de Dadada’, but thought better of it.
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,662
    Bostonaddick said:
    In the states, there is a town called Intercourse, PA which is near the town of blue ball, PA
    Also a Lititz PA, a Three Way, Tennessee, and a Climax, Michigan. Burnt Corn, Alabama was my favorite as a kid
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,517
    Been mentioned before but there is a small township west of Houston called ADDICKS.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,517
    Solidgone said:
    I’ve always liked the name of Bat and Ball. 
    A few years back, in the Farnham (Surrey) area, there were 27 pubs, one called The Bat and Ball one called The Ball and Wicket and five called The Cricketers.
    I kid you not.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,285
    I'm bowled over hearing that.

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