Is this the best place name ever?

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yes, I have been listening to Half Man Half Biscuit again, but bloody hell, what a place name.

― chris (chris), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

That it is. Except for St. Louis Du Ha! Ha! in Quebec. I mean, that's got two exclamation points in it for fuxsake.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Pease Pottage in (IIRC) West Sussex has been my favourite since I saw it mentioned on a road sign in July 1989, and I'd find it hard to change now.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a bit biased of course, but I still don't think you can beat Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch for being a great place name.

There's also a Pratt's Bottom near Orpington in Kent, and I believe there's a place called Wanker's Corner in Oregon (though someone may have been winding me up over that one)

― C J (C J), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Wanker's Corner is a bar or cafe. Nonetheless....

The best name in Britain is Westward Ho!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, wanker's corner is an unremarkable bar in one of the godawful suburbs of portland. it's not the best anything ever.

― chzd (synkro), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wanker's Corners does exist. It is not a town, but a crossroads that acquired a name at a time when roads and other manmade features were few in this area and thought more worthy of naming. There is a tavern located there, as well as a feed-store and a small grocery.

― Aimless, Monday, 18 November 2002 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Favourite English town/village names:
Nether Wallop
Chipping Sodbury
Barton in the Beans

(I think there's a village called 'Christmas Pie' near Guildford too.)

Favourite Scottish village name:
Star

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a village called Star? awww sweet.

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a village in the Cotswolds called "Paradise".

I think I'm right in remembering that it's the place where they have 99 yew trees planted in the churchyard and every time they try and plant the 100th tree, one of the other ones dies. Or something.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Nasty in Herts and Ugley just across the border in Essex

Inevitable headline: "Nasty man marries Ugley woman".

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

On a trip to Pennsylvania I went to Intercourse and its neighbouring village, Paradise. Is there a place called Me? Cos then I could say "I've been to Paradise but I've never been to Me".

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i have been to nasty. its a quiet little picturesque village

madchen, Maine=ME?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a place in Dorset called Ryme Intrinseca. Lovely.

― Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Wyre Piddle near Pershore

There's also a spate of villages between leicester and loughborough with cool names - Ratby, Groby and, possibly the best, Kirby Muxloe.

― koogs, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to a wedding in Kirby Muxloe a few weeks ago. It gave the impression of trying to preserve its village status against the odds, with a village hall and stuff, despite being to all intents and purposes a suburb of Leicester.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

There's Nob End near Wigan (I think) which always made me gigle as a youngster. Still does ever so slightly now, which is worrying.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

The James Brown Soul Center of the Universe Bridge in (Colorado?) is pretty fuckin key

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Truth or Consequences, NM

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe no one has said Dildo, Newfoundland yet!
Canada owns this thread. Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump!

― Miss Laura, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Wool in Dorset, never been but sounds good. Oh also Fankerton in Scotland :)

― Fuzzy Wuzzy (Madam Plinky), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a Beer in Dorset too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a place called nobber somewhere in ireland. we've also got a stillorgan. two towns in kildare called clane and prosperous, so like markh's nasty/ugley headline, there you get "clane man seeks prosperous woman", or vice versa.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

and i forgot muff in county donegal, where the local diving club make a fortune selling t-shirts.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to say that that's the best thing ever but I always thought my archenemy was a complete wanker for wearing a "tour" t-shirt with a list of rude placenames on the back so I'd better keep quiet.

― R, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

(Beer is in Devon, Mark.)

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

While I love Ratby, Groby and Kirby Muxloe, I am especially fond of Frisby on the Wreake, also in Leicestershire

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely glam-organ wins?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 November 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

bonkle?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 November 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Beer is in Somerset, just up the road from Curry. Seriously.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 25 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Wetwang, East Yorkshire; Richard Whiteley is its mayor. New Invention (Staffordshire, I think) and Pity Me (just outside Durham) are good too.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 25 November 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

New Buildings! a hamlet somewhere not too far from me in Dorset ...

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

There are Beers in Devon and Somerset, but the Devon one is much bigger and most likely better.

I agree with Matt DC: Westward Ho! totally owns this thread.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always had a weakness for Nempnett Thrubwell (does he?) and Askham Richard (shall we?).

― jon (jon), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Pity Me is a derivation of petit mer, francophiles.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

What Cheer, Iowa. no kidding. (pronouced "whutcher" apptly)

― g.cannon (gcannon), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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