"ECW villages/towns" Topic

Has anyone got any witty names for villages/towns I could use.

Piddling Down?

Anything ending in Bottom usually gets a laugh such as Crinkly Bottom, or Dangly End as made famous by Noel's House Party on BBC1.

A bit further up from there must be Piddling Down Moor

Much Binding in the Marsh
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Walmington on Sea (Dad's Army, but of course probably existed back in the 17th century!)

Trumpton
Ambridge
St Mary Mead
Hogsmeade
Godric's Hollow

Who needs to make names up? Just looking over a map of Lincolnshire shows a few interesting places:

Wrangle
Old Leake
Mavis Enderby
Newton-by-Toft, and its companion Toft-near-Newton
Ashby Puerorum

And lots of drainage canals on the fens – how about "Forty Foot Drain"?

Best of all, the village of Ludford Magna has the immortal "Fanny Hands Lane".

He on She
She on Him
Ramsbottom

He on She
She on Him

They don't sound very English …

Conisborough near Doncaster has the unforgettable Butt Hole Road.

Being a pedant I'll point out the drainage canals aren't suitable for the ECW since many were dug using Scottish POWs from Charles IIs abortive campaign.

But around there is a village called Pidley… and outside Newmarket is Six Mile Bottom.

The Welsh habit of naming villages after biblical lcoales has resulted in Sodom, Denbighshire.

Have a look here
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Place names such as

�¡Willey, Warwickshire
�¡Titty Hill, Sussex, UK
�¡Snatchup, Hertfordshire
�¡Friars Entry, Oxfordshire

Kings Lynn
Wootton
Cocklyclay (Spelling might be wrong)
Sherringham
Hunstanton
Welney( a Seaside town)
Gayton

We have a part of Little Lever called Nob End. Truth.

Dorset has good names too – Piddletrenthide and stuff like that !

Nob appears in many locale names – it usually refers either to a small hill (see also knob names) or the Devil. If appearing from late 19C onwards it may refer to the richer part of town.

Wrangle
Old Leake
Mavis Enderby
Newton-by-Toft, and its companion Toft-near-Newton
Ashby Puerorum

Folkingham, but pronounced as the local dialect says it….Fockinham, which is why the traffic lady on Radio2 is always very very careful when she comes across it on a report!

Well as a resident of Old Bolingbroke perhaps I can add that to the list?
The story goes there once was a roadsign saying 'To Old Bolingbroke & Mavis Enderby' and underneath some wag wrote 'the gift of a son'.
I like a sign as you go through Billinghay at the end of a fen lane which is named 'Labour in vain Drove'. Often wonder how it came by that name.

Nob End in Little Lever Bolton is rumoured to come from the side of the village where the rich people lived ( the nobility) hence the name Nob End .Lisa ( Pig Iron`s other half :-))

Less's Moor
Upson Downs
Mar's Barre
Danky Scut
Loch O'Hare
Nobs Leake

what was the name of that village that was banned by Facebook? F…. something!

There used to be a street in London called Gropec**t Lane…

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Scunthorpe! It's got a very rude word in it!

Surprised no one has come up with Wetwang in E Yorks.

There are Piddles, in Somerset I think. My imaginary settings include Pyddle Down, with its twin villages of Scrotum Magna and Scrotum Parva.

There's a fairly extensive discussion of it here: link

The model railway community's been doing this for years.

Thanks for the link Pivole, very entertaining!
Farkham, Far Corfe & Far Kew, lol, for example. Excellent!!
Oh, and the Norfolk and Goode Railway, that had me in stitches.

Maidenhead (of which we have several) often amuses/shocks American visitors.

Most 17th Century English towns/cities had a Gropecnut Lane, as it was the name usually given to the "red light" district.

Feckham Hall.

Suprised no one has come up with Penistone