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Title: Strange Village name
Post by: Bruce on November 05, 2009, 08:46:07 PM
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r183/brucebig4/SDC10042.jpg)Taken near Malvern last weekend
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: SteveC#222 on November 05, 2009, 11:02:13 PM
No photo's I'm afraid, but come to Lincolnshire, home of amongst others-

Mavis Enderby
Claxby Pluckacre
Whaplode Drove
Pode Hole
Bag Enderby

and Anton's Gowt!  ;D
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: Richard on November 06, 2009, 08:59:09 AM

And every biker I know stops off at Condom, France, for a photograph.
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest27 on November 06, 2009, 12:36:03 PM
Knockin near Shrewsbury (There is a shop)

Piddle Water near Oxford, or is it Swindon

R
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: KirriePete on November 06, 2009, 01:33:54 PM
Up in Orkney there's always:

(http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/22090778.jpg)
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest868 on November 06, 2009, 03:08:12 PM
Quote from: SteveC#222 on November 05, 2009, 11:02:13 PM
No photo's I'm afraid, but come to Lincolnshire, home of amongst others-

Mavis Enderby
Claxby Pluckacre
Whaplode Drove
Pode Hole
Bag Enderby

and Anton's Gowt!  ;D

Been to most of those when I used to live there!
You've forgotten Gedney Drove End, Twenty, Dyke...
Just up the road from me here is Bully Hole Bottom.
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest27 on November 06, 2009, 05:07:46 PM
Round here we do not have village names, just random collections of letters  ;D

Has anyone got any spare vowels? we seem to be missing lots, and have a surfit of the less popular constants.

R

Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: Ian on November 06, 2009, 05:18:16 PM
In Yorkshire, near to Robin Hoods Bay is a place called

BOGGLE HOLE
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: Richard on November 06, 2009, 06:08:45 PM

In Wales caves are named "Ogof".  In the Mendips they often contain the phrase "hole" or "swallet".

Up North they are often referred to as "Pot".

This gave rise to the best ever name for a cave discovery many years ago.

They called it "Legalise".

Richard
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: robG on November 06, 2009, 11:04:51 PM
Don't forget Abercwmtanctop.

Rob .
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest27 on November 06, 2009, 11:31:08 PM
Place near Hay-on-Wye

Tregoyd


Or for those of you of an Anglo persuasion - Three Cocks (I am told many a woamn dreams of living there)

R
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: Steve Lake on November 07, 2009, 07:03:31 AM
Got a few in norfolk....."little snoring" comes to mind
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: SteveC#222 on November 07, 2009, 12:29:54 PM
Quote from: SteveL on November 07, 2009, 07:03:31 AM
Got a few in norfolk....."little snoring" comes to mind

You also have California!.....I always fancied a ride out from New York ( Lincs) to California (Norfolk).
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest7 on November 07, 2009, 12:46:59 PM
Quote from: Rog on November 06, 2009, 05:07:46 PM

Has anyone got any spare vowels? we seem to be missing lots, and have a surfit of the less popular constants.


Not that old chestnut again...  ;)
just because they aren't spelled A, E, I, or U doesn't mean there aren't any vowel sounds. Yes, written Welsh appears to contain few vowels, but spoken Welsh has as many as that modern upstart of a (Germanic) language, English.  ;) :D

GC
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest27 on November 07, 2009, 02:18:10 PM
How about Philidelphia near Bath, New York to California to Philidelphia?

GC - can I have my hook and line back please...  ;D

R
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: robG on November 08, 2009, 09:14:21 AM
Not to mention Picked Stones in Somerset and Temple Cloud nr Bristol.

Rob.
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: 002 on November 08, 2009, 11:54:48 AM
Quote from: robG on November 08, 2009, 09:14:21 AM
Not to mention Picked Stones in Somerset and Temple Cloud nr Bristol.

Rob.
Or Chew Magna !

Jethro
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: 002 on November 08, 2009, 11:56:22 AM
Quote from: Rog on November 07, 2009, 02:18:10 PM
How about Philidelphia near Bath, New York to California to Philidelphia?

GC - can I have my hook and line back please...  ;D

R

Dont forget you can pop into Boston !
And a detour to Bethlehem in Mid Wales.

Jethro
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest40 on November 08, 2009, 01:34:39 PM
We've got
Brigadoon, Innaloo,Dog Swamp,The Spectacles,Bullfinch,and some real wird ones like York, Beverly, Albany, Augusta, Belmont, Mount Hawthorn.
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest27 on November 08, 2009, 01:47:59 PM
Alice Springs, but now uses Tena Lady...

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Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: Furry John on November 08, 2009, 07:57:01 PM

OR there is the very doomy gloomy sign on the way to the Islay Ferry,
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn177/bmwr75/P8030075-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: KirriePete on November 08, 2009, 11:33:11 PM
This one always gives me a chuckle when I go west:


(http://www.jimandmaggie.co.uk/strome_ferry.jpg)
Title: Re: Strange Village name
Post by: guest7 on November 12, 2009, 01:21:46 AM
That Strome Ferry sign is magnificent!

If only they had a similar sign for Maidenhead warning of a lack of virgins  ;)

Saw this on the BBC news site earlier, apparently the council has since removed the joke part of the sign on safety grounds  ::)

(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46712000/jpg/_46712179_timbuktu.jpg)

GC