One of the most quaint and quirky things about the country are the multitude of hilariously adorable/strange place names. My husband and I have a game where we try to make up funny sounding village names like 'Twickleford-on-the-Wold' or 'Picklington Lacey'. Yeah I know, we're mature and interesting people. I'm guessing some of the ones we come up with might really exist though. Here are some of the stranger ones I've found having a quick look on Google Maps:
- Appleby-in-Westmorland
- Newton Poppleford
- Winterborne Stickland
- Puddletown
- Beer
- Mousehole
- Booby's Bay
- Crapstone
- Stoney Littleton
- Honeycombe Leaze
- Coldcomfort
- Horsington
Strange but cute. That's what the UK is to me :) Please post in the comments if you know any particularly charming place names! Maybe I'll come back with a list of strange Canadian place names...
How about where I live (and it is also my business name): Christmas Pie
ReplyDeleteThat one definitely belongs on the list! I thought for some reason that it was your street name, but village name is even better :)
ReplyDeleteIt is both the road name and the village name. We discovered the reason for the name shortly after we moved in - our village hall held an event about the area. Pie is a particular sized parcel of land and Christmas was the name of the family who owned the land the village stands on.
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