Funny placenames - apart from Muff?

_Whimsical_

I learned last night that there's a place in the UK called Bishops Itchington when the Sky News ticker broke off to ad break leaving 2 nations on the cliffhanger of the unfinished sentence "Body found in Bishops Itching...."

Goldengirl

This post has been deleted.

Cee-Jay-Cee

There’s a village/town called ‘****’ in Austria. Presumably the townsfolk are referred to as ****.

boombang

Spotted this on a map recently in Austria.



Made me think of a bickering couple.

Bogwoppit

From Shrewton in England

Bogwoppit

I’ve also been to Twatt in Orkney but they’d taken down the signs because of the tourists blocking the roads to take pics.

The Rape of Lucretia

Some good ones there.
Still not sure quite why the title example of Muff, a tube that women put their hands into to keep them warm (and in the past not just women, it was common for men to keep warm by using one as well) is funny though ?

tea and coffee

Because it's the male putting his hands in the muff that makes it "funny" ;-)

gozunda

Goldengirl wrote: »

Knocklong, near Hospital, Co.Limerick.

Poulnamucka outside Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

Dunhill, Co.Waterford.

Whatever about 'Knocklong' surely the town of Hospital has spawned more excuses than any other place in Ireland - "sorry boss I'm late- had to take the wife / husband / mother in law etc to Hospital" ... :pac:

Irish Guitarist

Asbestos

donegal_man

ann0

Brown Willy, Cornwall
Boggy Bottom, Hertfordshire
Twatt, Orkney
Nob End, South Lancashire
Fanny Barks, Durham
Scratchy Bottom, Dorset
Minge Lane,
some of the places names in the uk are just odd

CarrickMcJoe

Hackballscross and BUSH, both in Louth

Lorelli!

A Town Called Malice (in Poland)

Under His Eye wrote: »

The local sheriff wouldn't happen to be Roscoe P Coltrane?

No not The Dukes of Hazzard. I never watched that. Was Hazzard the place? There was a sheriff in the video for the song Hazard though and it is a place. Only one Z:)

Trigger Happy

Cockermouth in Cumbria needs an honorable mention.

Cina

Got a good laugh driving through Carrick yesterday when I saw the sign

"Free breast checks - at the Bush Hotel"

bonzodog2

There's a street in Sheffield called Letsby Avenue, 1/4 mile long. The only building is a police station.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/12/martinwainwright

PlaneSpeeking

It's not in and of itself funny but my best mate has an interesting pronunciation for Clitheroe.

fancy pigeon

Cockermouth in England
Cock lane near gormanston
Cock bridge near allenwood
Pecks lane Castleknock

Those names, what a bunch of dicks :P

dr.fuzzenstein

Deleted User wrote: »

In Germany too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****_(mountain)

Not just a mountain!

P_1

Chipping Sodbury

jamesieliz

i believe there's a place called Tang in the midlands

Bummer1234

jamesieliz wrote: »

i believe there's a place called Tang in the midlands

Yes..On the longford meath border....Someone always sticks a "o" after it and it brings out the kid in me every time i pass it :pac:

Badly Drunk Boy

appledrop wrote: »

There is a Cock Bridge in Kildare.

appledrop wrote: »

Also Kill in Co. Kildare

And to combine them, (and also in Kildare) Kilcock.

Badly Drunk Boy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The Bundle of Sticks Roundabout

Putinbot wrote: »

Do you know why it's called that?

Mussolini used to live on that roundabout, apparently... :pac:

donegal_man

donegal_man

Australia has some of the most weird and wonderful place names in the world. Some originating in transliterations of native names and some reflecting the sentiments of the earliest surveyors.

Big Raspberry - NSW
Cream Puff Corner - South Australia
Titwobble Lane and Sausage Gully - Victoria
Big Stinking Lagoon - Northern Territory
Bluey's Knob - Queensland

Although Tasmania probably has some of the best

Bust-Me-Gut Hill
Nowhere Else
Dismal Swamp
Devil's Kitchen
The Edge of the World
Never Never
Hell's Gate
Prickly Bottom
Deep Bottom
Officers Bottom
Lovely Bottom
Misery Knob
Mouldy Hole

New Home

There's a place in the US (in Arizona, I think?) that's called Rifle.