Odd and Unusual Place Names
- Abinger Hammer, near Guildford, Surrey.
- Abington Pigotts, near Cambridge.
- Ab Kettleby, near Melton Mowbray.
- Above Church, near Cheadle, Staffordshire.
- Ae, near Dumfries. The shortest place name in Britain.
- Affetside, near Bury, Lancashire.
- Affpuddle, near Dorchester.
- Agglethorpe, in Coverdale, North Yorkshire.
- Ainderby Quernhow, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
- Alsop-en-le-Dale, near Buxton, Derbyshire.
- America, near Ely, Cambridgeshire.
- Anthill Common, near Waterlooville, Hampshire.
- Anton's Gout, near Boston, Lincolnshire.
- Apes Dale, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
- Arpafeelie, near Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty.
- Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
- Assloss, near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
- Auchenshuggle, Glasgow.
- Auquhorthies, near Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire.
- Bablock Hythe, near Oxford.
- Badger's Mount, near Farnborough.
- Balls Cross, West Sussex.
- Bare, near Morecambe, Lancashire.
- Barton in the Beans, west of Leicester.
- Bashall Eaves, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.
- Batchelor's Bump, near Hastings, Sussex.
- Beer, near Seaton, Devon.
- Beercrocombe, near Taunton, Somerset.
- Beeswing, near Dumfries.
- Bell End, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
- Besses o'th' Barn, south of Bury, Greater Manchester.
- Billy Row, near Crook, Durham.
- Binchester Blocks, near Spennymoor, Durham.
- Black Car, near Wymondham, Norfolk.
- Blackadder, near Berwick upon Tweed.
- Blandford Forum, Dorset.
- Blindcrake, near Cockermouth, Cumbria.
- Blubberhouses, near Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire. (anyone lost some
giant golf balls?)
- Blue Anchor, on the Somerset coast.
- Boghead, near Tarland, Aberdeenshire.
- Bognor Regis, Sussex.
- Booby Dingle, near Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
- Boot, Cumbria (and one in Cornwall).
- Booze, Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire (but no pub, sadly).
- Bottom Flash, near Winsford, Cheshire.
- Botusfleming, near Saltash, Cornwall.
- Brawl, near Thurso at the top of Scotland.
- Briantspuddle, near Dorchester.
- Brill, east of Oxford. A really great place!
- Broadbottom, near Hyde, Greater Manchester.
- Broadwoodwidger, near Launceston.
- Brown Willy, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
- Bulley, west of Gloucester.
- Bullyhole Bottom, near Gaerllwyd, Monmouthshire.
- Bumbles Green, near Harlow, Essex.
- Bummers Hill, near Hare Street, Hertfordshire.
- Burton-le-Coggles, near Grantham.
- Buttock, near Barley, Lancashire.
- Buttock Point, Isle of Bute.
- Cackle Street, near Hastings, Sussex.
- California, Birmingham (also one in Norfolk).
- Cambo, near Morpeth, Northumberland.
- Cargo Fleet, Middlesborough.
- Catbrain, near Cribb's Causeway, north of Bristol.
- Catchem's Corner, near Coventry.
- Chaldron Herring, near Lulworth Cove.
- Chapel en le Frith, near Buxton, Derbyshire.
- Chignall Smeally, near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Chipping Sodbury, east of Bristol.
- Chequerbent, Bolton.
- Cheslyn Hay, near Cannock, Staffordshire.
- Chew Magna, near Bristol.
- Chewton Mendip, near Wells, Somerset.
- Christmas Common, near Watlington, Oxfordshire.
- Chuckery, Walsall.
- Clapton-in-Gordano, near Portishead, Somerset.
- Clatter, west of Newtown, Powys.
- Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire.
- Clenchwarton, near King's Lynn, Norfolk.
- Clock Face, near St. Helen's, Merseyside.
- Cocking Causeway, near Midhurst, Sussex.
- Cocklick End, near Slaidburn, Lancashire.
- Coffinswell, near Torquay, Devon.
- Cold Blow, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
- Compton Dando, near Bath.
- Compton Pauncefoot, near Yeovil.
- Constable Lee, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire.
- Cop Street, near Sandwich, Kent.
- Court Henry, near Carmarthen.
- Cowslip Green, near Congresbury, Somerset.
- Crackpot, Swaledale, North Yorkshire.
- Crank, near St. Helens, Merseyside.
- Crapham Down, near Beachy Head, East Sussex.
- Crapstone, near Plymouth, Devon.
- Cricket St Thomas, near Chard, Somerset.
- Criddling Stubbs, near Knottingley, Yorkshire.
- Crimble, near Rochdale.
- Cropwell Bishop, near Nottingham (also Cropwell Butler).
- Crouch End, North London.
- Cuckoo's Knob, near Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire.
- Cuckoo's Nest, near Chester.
- Curry Rivel, near Taunton, Somerset.
- Dancing Dicks, near Hatfield Peverel, Essex.
- Dead Cow Point, Lundy Island.
- Dent, near Sedbergh, North Yorkshire.
- Dial Post, near Worthing, Sussex.
- Dippertown, near Launceston.
- Dirty Gutter, near Leek, Staffordshire.
- Dog Village, near Exeter.
- Donkey Town, near Camberley, Surrey.
- Dove Holes, near Buxton, Derbyshire.
- Diggle, east of Oldham, Greater Manchester.
- Droop, near Dorchester.
- Dukinfield, Tameside, Greater Manchester.
- Dull, near Pitlochry.
- Dungy Head, near West Lulworth, Dorset.
- Duntisbourne Leer, near Cirencester.
- Durdle Door, near West Lulworth, Dorset.
- Easter Kinkell, near Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty.
- Elephant and Castle, South London.
- Eccup, north of Leeds.
- Esh Winning, near Durham.
- Ferwig, Cardigan.
- Farrington Gurney, near Radstock, Somerset.
- Fazakerley, Liverpool.
- Fingringhoe, near Colchester, Essex.
- Flash, near Buxton, Derbyshire. Claims to be the highest village in England.
- Fogo, near Coldstream in the Borders.
- Four Forks, near Bridgwater, Somerset.
- Frenchbeer, on Dartmoor.
- Friendly, near Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire.
- Friskney Eaudike, near Boston.
- Football Hole, near Embleton, Northumberland.
- Fortnighty, near Nairn, Highland.
- Four Throws, near Sandhurst, Kent.
- Funzie, Fetlar, Shetland.
- Gamlingay Cinques, near Cambridge.
- Gay Street, near Pulborough, Sussex.
- Germansweek, near Launceston.
- George Nympton, near Barnstaple.
- Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire.
- Glossop, Derbyshire. What a nice word.
- Golden Balls, near Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire.
- Goldfinch Bottom, near Newbury, Berkshire.
- Good Easter, near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Goole, East Yorkshire. (Just for the sound of it.)
- Goonbell, near Redruth, Cornwall.
- Goosnargh, north of Preston.
- Great Cockup, (mountain) near Bassenthwaite, Cumbria.
- Green Street Green, near Farnborough.
- Grey Green, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
- Grike, near Egremont, Cumbria.
- Grimness, on South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
- Grimpo, near Oswestry, Shropshire.
- Great Snoring, near Walsingham, Norfolk.
- Grotton, Oldham.
- Grubb Street, near Dartford, Kent.
- Grumbla, near Lands End.
- Gussage St. Michael, near Blandford Forum, Dorset.
- Gweek, near Helston, Cornwall.
- Halfpenny, near Kendal, Cumbria.
- Hamsterley, near Bishop Auckland (also Consett) Durham.
- Haselbury Plucknett, near Yeovil.
- Haseley Knob, near Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
- Heanton Punchardon, near Barnstaple. (Might cause this page to be
rejected by certain software!)
- Hearts Delight, near Sittingbourne, Kent.
- Heckmondwike, east of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
- Heglibister, on the Mainland of Shetland.
- Helions Bumpstead, near Saffron Walden.
- Henlade, near Taunton. It must be an egg, as the next village is called Ham.
- Hinton Blewett, between Bath and Weston super Mare.
- Hinton-in-the-Hedges, near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
- Hole in the Wall, near Ross-on-Wye.
- Honeystreet, near Devizes, Wiltshire.
- Honey Tye, near Colchester, Essex.
- Hopton Wafers, east of Ludlow.
- Horrabridge, near Plymouth, Devon.
- Howle, north of Telford, Shropshire.
- Hoyland Swaine, west of Barnsley.
- Huish Episcopi, near Langport, Somerset.
- Idle, near Bradford. (Idle Working Men's Club?)
- Indian Queens, near Newquay, Cornwall.
- Inkpen, near Newbury, Berkshire.
- Jack-in-the-Green, near Exeter, Devon.
- Jump, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
- Kemeys Commander, near Pontypool, Gwent.
- Kettlesing Bottom, west of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
- Kingston Bagpuize, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
- Killiecrankie, near Pitlochry.
- Kirkby Overblow, south of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
- Kittybrewster, Aberdeen.
- Land of Nod, near Grayshott, Hampshire.
- Landshipping, near Pembroke. (Rival to Manchester Ship Canal?)
- Layer-de-la-Haye, near Colchester, Essex.
- Leake Hurn's End, near Boston, west of the Wash.
- Leaves Green, near Biggin Hill. (Except in Autumn?)
- Leonard Stanley, near Stroud.
- Leysdown on Sea, Isle of Sheppey, Kent (like on the Dead Sea?).
- Lickey End, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
- Loggerheads, between Stoke and Shrewsbury (also near Mold).
- London Apprentice, near St. Austell, Cornwall.
- Long Load, near Yeovil.
- Looe, near Liskeard, Cornwall.
- Loose, near Maidstone, Kent. (The place to find Loose women?)
- Loose Bottom, near Falmer, East Sussex.
- Lost, near Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.
- Loudwater, near High Wycombe.
- Lower Slaughter, near Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire.
- Lower Peover, near Knutsford, Cheshire.
- Lumps of Garryhorn, near Carsphairn, Dumfries and Galloway.
- Mabe Burnthouse, Falmouth, Cornwall.
- Mankinholes, near Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
- Mappowder, near Dorchester.
- Mavis Enderby, near Horncastle, Lincolnshire.
- Mavis Grind, on the Mainland of Shetland.
- Melbury Bubb, near Yeovil.
- Messing, near Colchester, Essex.
- Minchinhampton, near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
- Moon's Moat, near Redditch, Worcestershire.
- Mousehole, near Penzance, Cornwall.
- Mow Cop, near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire.
- Much Wenlock, near Telford, Shropshire.
- Mucking, near Tilbury, Essex.
- Mudford Sock, near Yeovil.
- Muggleswick, near Consett, Durham.
- Mumbles, Swansea.
- Nasty, near Stevenage. (Nasty Women's Institute?)
- Nately Scures, near Basingstoke, Hampshire.
- Nempnett Thrubwell, between Bath and Weston super Mare.
- Netherthong, near Huddersfield.
- Nether Wallop, near Andover.
- New Invention, near Walsall, W. Midlands. (also in Shropshire)
- Noah's Ark, near Sevenoaks, Kent.
- Nobottle, near Northampton.
- No Man's Land, near Wadebridge, Cornwall (also one near Looe).
- Nup End, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
- Odd Down, south of Bath.
- Old Wives Lees, near Canterbury.
- Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn.
- Peasedown St John, near Bath.
- Pease Pottage, near Crawley, West Sussex.
- Pett Bottom, near Canterbury, Kent.
- Piddlehinton, near Dorchester.
- Pink Green, near Redditch, Worcestershire.
- Pity Me, north of Durham.
- Pisser Clough, near Widdop, West Yorkshire.
- Pleck, Walsall (also one in Dorset).
- Plucks Gutter, near Ramsgate, Kent.
- Plush, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Polperro, near Liskeard, Cornwall.
- Polyphant, near Launceston.
- Potto, south of Stockton-on-Tees.
- Pratt's Bottom, near Farnborough.
- Praze-an-Beeble, near Cambourne, Cornwall.
- Prickwillow, near Ely, Cambridgeshire.
- Quaking Houses, near Stanley, Durham.
- Quadring Eaudike, near Spalding, Lincolnshire.
- Quebec, near Durham.
- Queen Camel, near Yeovil, Somerset.
- Ramsbottom, north of Bury, Greater Manchester.
- Ramsey Forty Foot, near March, Cambridgeshire.
- Ratcliffe in the Wreake, north of Leicester.
- Raw, near Whitby. (naked or half-baked?)
- Red Roses, near Carmarthen.
- Rest and Be Thankful, Argyll and Bute.
- Retire, near Bodmin, Cornwall.
- Rotten Bottom, Tweeddale, Borders.
- Rows of Trees, near Wilmslow, Cheshire.
- Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire.
- Ryme Intrinseca, near Yeovil.
- Sandy Balls, near Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
- Scagglethorpe, near Malton, North Yorkshire.
- Scapegoat Hill, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
- Scratchy Bottom, near Durdle Door, Dorset.
- Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Such a lovely name.
- Seaton Sluice, near Blyth, Northumberland.
- Seething, near Norwich. Does it make you cross?
- Send, near Woking, Surrey.
- Sheepy Parva, near Nuneaton.
- Shellow Bowells, near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Shilbottle, near Alnwick, Northumberland.
- Shitlington Crags, near Wark, Northumberland.
- Sinfin, near Derby.
- Six Mile Bottom, near Cambridge.
- Sixpenny Handley, near Blandford Forum.
- Slack Bottom, near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
- Slattocks, near Rochdale.
- Snig's End, near Gloucester.
- Solomon's Tump, west of Gloucester.
- Splott, Cardiff.
- Spunkie, near Lugton, Ayrshire
- Square and Compass, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.
- Steeple Bumpstead, near Haverhill, Essex.
- Stepaside, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
- Sticker, near St. Austell, Cornwall.
- Stiff Street, near Sittingbourne, Kent.
- Stublick Bog, near Haydon Bridge, Northumberland.
- Swan Bottom, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire.
- The Bastard, (hill) near Campbelltown, Kintyre.
- The Bog, south west of Shrewsbury.
- The Bratch, near Wolverhampton.
- Throcking, near Stevenage.
- Thrupp, near Stroud (also one near Oxford)
- Thwing, near Bridlington.
- Tincleton, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Tiltups End, near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
- Titaboutie, near Tarland, Aberdeenshire.
- Toller Porcorum, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Tongue of Gangsta, Mainland of Orkney.
- Trull, near Taunton, Somerset.
- Trunch, near Cromer, Norfolk.
- Turdees, near Chapelhall, North Lanarkshire.
- Turner's Puddle, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Twatt, on the Mainland of Orkney.
- Twelveheads, near Truro, Cornwall.
- Twenty, near Spalding, Lincolnshire.
- Twerton, Bath.
- Ugglebarnby, near Whitby, North Yorkshire.
- Ugley, near Bishop's Stortford. (Home of the Ugley Women's Institute?)
- Ulceby Skitter, near Immingham, Lincolnshire.
- Upend, near Newmarket.
- Upperup, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
- Upper Upham, near Swindon, Wiltshire.
- Up Sydling, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Upton Snodsbury near Worcester (Borsetshire)
- Vobster, near Frome, Somerset.
- Warninglid, near Horsham, West Sussex.
- Washaway, near Bodmin, Cornwall.
- Wasps Nest, near Lincoln.
- Wedding Hall Fold, near Lothersdale, North Yorkshire.
- Wellow, near Bath, Somerset (also on the Isle of Wight)
- Wendens Ambo, near Saffron Walden.
- Wendy, near Cambridge.
- Weobley Marsh, near Hereford.
- Wergs, Wolverhampton.
- Westley Waterless, near Cambridge.
- Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire.
- Westonzoyland, near Bridgewater, Somerset.
- Westward Ho!, Devon. The place with the pling!
- Wetwang, near Bridlington.
- Wheelbarrow Town, near Folkestone, Kent.
- Whelpo, near Wigton, Cumbria.
- Wide Open, north of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Wigan, Greater Manchester. How could it escape?
- Wigglesworth, near Settle, North Yorkshire.
- Wildboarclough, near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
- Wincle, near Macclesfield.
- Winfrith Newburgh, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Winterborne Came, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Withiel Florey, West Somerset.
- Wittering, near Peterborough. (No - there couldn't be a Wittering
Women's Institute, could there?)
- Womenswold, south-east of Canterbury, Kent.
- World's End, west of Birmingham, also near Newbury.
- Wormiehills, on the coast, east of Dundee.
- Wrangle, near Boston, west of the Wash.
- Wrangway, near Wellington, Somerset.
- Wyke Champflower, near Castle Cary, Somerset.
- Wyre Piddle, near Pershore, Worcestershire.
- Yaddlethorpe, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
- Yardley Gobion, near Towcester, Northamptonshire.
- Yarkhill, east of Hereford.
- Yarrow Feus, south of Edinburgh.
- Yazor, near Hereford.
- Yealand Redmayne, near Carnforth, Lancashire.
- Yetts O'Muckhart, east of Stirling.
- Yockenthwaite, in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire.
- Zeal Monachorum, north-west of Exeter.
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