Bizzare Place names

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What is the oddest place name you have come across? That doesn't fit in with the area.
Here is mine:
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There is a place called Twatt in Orkney...

http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source ... 76818&z=14

Also, a place called Bat & Ball in Kent...

http://realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/ldb/ ... aspx?T=BBL

And in North Devon there is Westward Ho!
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steddenm wrote:There is a place called Twatt in Orkney...

http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source ... 76818&z=14

Also, a place called Bat & Ball in Kent...

http://realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/ldb/ ... aspx?T=BBL

And in North Devon there is Westward Ho!
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Round the corner from Westward Ho! is Woolfardisworthy, which, as I'm sure you know, is pronounced 'Woosery'.

Then there's Mildenhall in Suffolk, pronounced 'Mildenhall'; and Mildenhall in Wiltshire, pronounced 'Minull'.

And who remembers whether it's the Dorset Gillingham or the Kent one with the soft sounded 'G'?
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Nick Harvey wrote:Round the corner from Westward Ho! is Woolfardisworthy, which, as I'm sure you know, is pronounced 'Woosery'.

Then there's Mildenhall in Suffolk, pronounced 'Mildenhall'; and Mildenhall in Wiltshire, pronounced 'Minull'.

And who remembers whether it's the Dorset Gillingham or the Kent one with the soft sounded 'G'?
It's Gillingham in Dorset with a hard G and Gillingham in Kent with a J - ie 'Jillingham'.
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Up in North Wales we've got a Penisa'rwaen.
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Which reminds me: Penistone. First time I read that I was very surprised. Penis tone? What does that sound like? I also once saw a sign for the PENISTONE SHOW which had the word "tone" obscured by a telegraph pole.
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In County Durham there is, of course, "No Place". It's near to the location of Northumbrian Water's HQ: "Pity Me"
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There is also Lickey End in the West Midlands and Shitlingthorpe in North Yorkshire.

In Lancashire there is a town called Ramsbottom, which has a small village attached to it called Upper Ramsbottom; a Great Cockswell and Little Cockswell in the Royal Manor of Farringdon and down in South Devon there is Coombeinteignhead (Come-in-Teen-Head).
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steddenm wrote:There is also Lickey End in the West Midlands and Shitlingthorpe in North Yorkshire.
Not to far from Bell End and Twatling (pronounced Twotling apparently) Road.
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Six Mile Bottom, Suffolk.

Upper Dicker, East Sussex.
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