Silly Place Names, Near Your Postcode

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UBT - bobuk
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Silly Place Names, Near Your Postcode

Post by UBT - bobuk »

Just follow this http://places.jump-around.com/closest/

I will start it off and hoping no one gets banned from the forum  :wink:

Nob End
Ramsbottom
Butty Moss
Bottom Flash
Dick Slack
Menlove Gardens
Smallwood
Hole Bottom
Upperthong
Shavington Ho


b.:D
Gary
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Post by Gary »

HaHa..

Lower Dicker
Upper Dicker
Crapham Down
Rear Wood
Loose Bottom
Devil's Dyke
Fulking Hill
Hooker's Farm
Pett Bottom
Bushy Bottom
DJH@GB-Ro
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Post by DJH@GB-Ro »

It misses some good ones :P

It missed 4 of the best 5 miles from me, all with the same name:
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Post by Rockinfroggi »

Nice find the Bob,

Cock Pond
Bonar Road
Mincing Lane
Herbert's Hole
White Knobs Way
Tyttenhanger
Pishill
Titsey Park
Knob Hill
Pratt's Bottom

You can tell me to go up Primrose Hill, but I'm going nowhere near Herbert's Hole  :oops:

Gary.
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Post by DJH@GB-Ro »

Rockinfroggi wrote: but I'm going nowhere near Herbert's Hole  :oops:
Hoe about the 4 holes in the link from my previous post?  :lol:
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Post by UBT - Timbo »

Hi all,

I've a few "nice" ones near me in Cambs:

Feltwell
Cocks Green
Bummers Hill
Titty Ho
and
Nasty (I didn't believe this one, but it exists: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi? ... lace=Nasty)


And then for my former home in Kent:

Rear Wood
Thong
Pratt's Bottom
Pett Bottom
Titsey Park
White Knobs Way
Lower Dicker
Upper Dicker
Cock Clarks


Ah, the subtleties of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue !!

regards

Tim
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Post by DJH@GB-Ro »

Somewhere south west of me/under 10 miles east of you, Tim, there is a place I always used to find amusing: 'Six Mile Bottom'  :lol:
James Box
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Post by James Box »

Near to my parent's house:

Box Bush Farm
Crab Hole
Snatch House
Bullyhole Bottom
Clitsome Farm
Butt Hatch
Lusty Hill
Box Tunnel
Lickham Bottom
Burnt Bottom

And additionally from my old house:
Sodom
Cuckoo's Knob
Wet Pits

Someone was having a laugh when the naming contest was run...
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Post by UBT - The Prof.... »

Add another for you.
Level crossing on the line between Attleborough and Wymondham:
Sluts Hole
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