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Bruce

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Strange Village name
« on: November 05, 2009, 08:46:07 PM »
Taken near Malvern last weekend
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SteveC#222

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #1 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
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Richard

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2009, 08:59:09 AM »

And every biker I know stops off at Condom, France, for a photograph.
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guest27

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2009, 12:36:03 PM »
Knockin near Shrewsbury (There is a shop)

Piddle Water near Oxford, or is it Swindon

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KirriePete

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2009, 01:33:54 PM »
Up in Orkney there's always:

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guest868

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #5 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.
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guest27

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #6 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.

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Ian

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2009, 05:18:16 PM »
In Yorkshire, near to Robin Hoods Bay is a place called

BOGGLE HOLE
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Richard

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #8 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
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robG

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2009, 11:04:51 PM »
Don't forget Abercwmtanctop.

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guest27

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #10 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)

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Steve Lake

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2009, 07:03:31 AM »
Got a few in norfolk....."little snoring" comes to mind
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SteveC#222

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #12 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).
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guest7

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #13 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

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guest27

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Re: Strange Village name
« Reply #14 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

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