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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:

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!

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!

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'?

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'.

Up in North Wales we've got a Penisa'rwaen.

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.

In County Durham there is, of course, "No Place". It's near to the location of Northumbrian Water's HQ: "Pity Me"

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).

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.

Six Mile Bottom, Suffolk.

Upper Dicker, East Sussex.