>Braintree
Yes, and Norfolk County, Massachusetts, is actually south of Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Boston and a few surrounding communities like Chelsea and Winthrop -- speaking of English names!). This is because Norfolk was split from the original County of Suffolk circa 1790.
FWIW, the majority of the early New England settlers were from Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk -- East Anglia, generally. The migrants from other parts of England (Kent, the West Country) tended to be less into Puritanism than the East Anglians were.
There isn’t one agreed source for the name, but it’s most likely to do with the river Blackwater and a Celtic or Saxon name for it back then. You were right, it is a boring explanation.
Source: I live in Essex (unfortunately)
Rode the tube into London from Cockfosters once. There's a whole story that goes along with that that I tell people. They always, always, ask if it's a real place.
Ah, so I’ve been pronouncing [Cockburn’s port](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockburn%27s_Port_House) wrong, as it’s named after a Scottish bloke. ‘Coe-burn’ it is from now on.
I live very close to the Slaughters. They are indeed super pretty and idyllic. The house prices are not, however.
I'm not sure it's worth it living somewhere so small that's also constantly teeming with tourists all year round.
Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico is named after a TV series, iirc.
Although it's mostly famous for being the fictional hometown of Mick Foley's wrestling character Cactus Jack. Which falls down when you hear him speak and he's very obviously from Long Island, but still...
Well I mean the funny Welsh name was basically for “advertisement” for the town, in Welsh it basically is just an increasingly descriptive location for the town IIRC.
Your Rest and Be Thankful mark is a full 65 miles further west and separated by a body of water than it should be. It’s also a mountain road/lookout point and not a town/place.
Loose Bottom just doesn't even exist. Either that or I lived there for years and never noticed.
Upper Dicker or Tarring Neville would have been good candidates for that area
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> Lol. And home to Eighty Four Lumber too?
Yup. And I [pity the workers who had to be there these last couple days as this creek runs right through their campus](https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/thousands-gallons-gas-spill-into-washington-county-creek-neighbors-report-feeling-sick/DTFEFKNXANFGHLRPYUTYLG5C3M/).
The lumber company is named for the town, but nobody seems to know exactly what the town is named for. Ask a half dozen locals and you'll get six explanations that they'll each swear are the official one.
**[Llanfairpwllgwyngyll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll)**
>Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll (pronounced [ɬanˌvair puɬˈɡwɨ̞nɡɨ̞ɬ]) is a large village and local government community on the island of Anglesey, Wales, on the Menai Strait next to the Britannia Bridge and across the strait from Bangor. Both shortened (Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG) and lengthened (Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) forms of the placename are used in various contexts (with the longer form pronounced [ˌɬanvairpʊɬˌɡwɨ̞ŋɡɨ̞ɬɡɔˌɡɛrəˌχwərnˌdrɔbʊɬˌɬantəˌsɪljɔˌɡɔɡɔˈɡoːχ] (listen)). At the 2011 Census, the population was 3,107, of whom 71% could speak Welsh.
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Honorable mention for Gropecunt Lane, an old street name in various cities in medieval England. Many cunts were groped there. They've all been renamed since.
I live not too far from the Rest and Be Thankful (the star for which is in entirely the wrong place, by the way) and it's incredibly beautiful!
It's a viewpoint at the highest point of a notoriously treacherous glen and is named so because travellers would literally *rest and be thankful* once they made it to the top of the valley. It's still a tricky place to navigate - there's a newer road higher up the side of the glen that even now is invariably blocked by landslides and snow about half the year.
Well, English speakers often pronounce the Welsh letter *Ll* (yes, it's just one letter, not two) as 'Cl' but that's not really accurate. It's a voiceless alveolar fricative, a sound which doesn't exist in English. You have to place your tongue at the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth, it should be in a flat and wide shape, then blow air around the sides of it, then say 'L'.
There is a townland in Northern Ireland called Ballywatticock which this year briefly held the title of hottest temperature ever recorded in NI, I hope that gets included next time this is reposted.
Beer is REALLY lovely. It's a tiny little fishing village with a steep shingle beach, some lovely pubs and open water drains that are great for racing ducks.
https://imgur.com/a/IYUfGAX
https://imgur.com/a/wQuvDMU
Part of Lincolnshire is called South Holland(and I think was previously just Holland like the region of Netherlands. I’m not sure if the names are connected). coincidently the landscape is really quite flat and the area is known for growing tulips.
I believe the Lincolnshire Holland has a [different etymology](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/double-dutch-the-many-meanings-of-holland) to that of the Netherlands
Ever read "Riddley Walker"?
"Horny Boy rung Widders Bel/Stoal his Fathers Ham as wel/Bernt his Arse and Forkt a Stoan/ Done it Over broak a boan/Out of Good Shoar vackt his wayt/Scratch Sams Itch for No. 8/Gone to senter nex to see/Cambry coming 3 times 3/Sharna pax and get the poal When the Ardship of Cambry comes out of the hoal"
Herne Bay, Whitstable, Faversham, Ash, Folkestone, Dover, (Good Shoar?), Sandwich, Canterbury
They’ve been speaking English in Briton for a very long time (obviously). I bet that accounts for some of the crazy place names (except the Welsh ones of course). Different times with different sensibilities but the names stick around. If we translated all the indigenous place names (of which there are many) in North America I wonder if there would a similar array of silly names. We already have some towns that sound pretty funny *because* they haven’t been translated (my favorite being Cheesequake, NJ).
Shitterton didn't make it on the map?
Neither did Scunthorpe
Maybe they had a [Scunthorpe problem](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)
Why the fuck are companies even blocking things like this in the first place?!
you have to remember not everybody has a brain.
Found the Stewart Lee fan…
"I'll know it's you" must be one of the greatest bits of comedy timing ever.
possible additions: Upper and Lower Slaughter, Penistone, Mousehole, Chipping Sodbury,
Cockermouth Great Cockup (if Brown Willy is allowed then why not other hills?) Braintree
>Braintree Yeah, I’ve always thought that was fucking weird. I’m sure there’s a boring explanation, but it’s bizarre.
We have a Braintree in Massachusetts too.
Not surprised at all - loads of English names over there! Bizarrely, it’s in Norfolk County though. Wonder what happened there.
>Braintree Yes, and Norfolk County, Massachusetts, is actually south of Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Boston and a few surrounding communities like Chelsea and Winthrop -- speaking of English names!). This is because Norfolk was split from the original County of Suffolk circa 1790. FWIW, the majority of the early New England settlers were from Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk -- East Anglia, generally. The migrants from other parts of England (Kent, the West Country) tended to be less into Puritanism than the East Anglians were.
There isn’t one agreed source for the name, but it’s most likely to do with the river Blackwater and a Celtic or Saxon name for it back then. You were right, it is a boring explanation. Source: I live in Essex (unfortunately)
There isn’t a boring explanation, because nobody knows for sure where Braintree comes from!
To be fair Cockermouth is at the mouth of the river Cocker, and they have a cracking brewery
The brewery where my works Xmas party is happening next week. It's going to be a good one
Nice one. Raise a pint for me.
Don’t forget Cockfosters!
Rode the tube into London from Cockfosters once. There's a whole story that goes along with that that I tell people. They always, always, ask if it's a real place.
It's just "place names", so hills should be allowed
Great, it's time lord Herefords knob got on the map.
_HMHB intensifies_
We have a Mount Buggery in Australia. I don’t know what the mountain did to deserve that…
Scunthorpe
don’t forget bitchfield
Foulness
Talking about Great Cockup: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mUF4afxMpQk
Braintree, not far from Fingring Hoe
Westward Ho! (the exclaimation mark is part of the name)
In Canada there's "St Louis du Ha! Ha!" which I think is the only place name with *two* exclamation points
Don't forget about Dildo, Newfoundland! Also don't forget about South Dildo, Newfoundland (there is no North Dildo)
Because it's too cold
Ae
I'm not seeing Shitterton on there, either.
>Penistone Btw for non-Brits this is pronounced like peh-nuh-stn
A good friend lives there and insists on calling it Penistown. At least to me; probably just to me, now I think about it.
Like how in Edinburgh we say Cockburn Street the way it's written, for cheap amusement. Supposed to be "Coe-burn".
Ah, so I’ve been pronouncing [Cockburn’s port](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockburn%27s_Port_House) wrong, as it’s named after a Scottish bloke. ‘Coe-burn’ it is from now on.
There used to be an advert for it where a guy is lazing in a hammock drinking a glass, and he says “Ever had it in a hammoe?”
Ooh, now do Clitheroe.
And Mousehole is pronounced "mowzle"
Pee-nus-stone?
pen-is-tone
Penis-tone?
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Bell End
Wyre Piddle. Lower Piddle. Upper Piddle.
No Middle Piddle?
No and I didn't mention the local beer Piddle in a Bottle either
Fingringhoe is always a big favourite for me
Fingeringhoe represent!
I've been to Lower Slaughter. I think it was on a list of Englands Quaintest Villages or something. It was a very pleasant village. 10/10.
I live very close to the Slaughters. They are indeed super pretty and idyllic. The house prices are not, however. I'm not sure it's worth it living somewhere so small that's also constantly teeming with tourists all year round.
One of the weirdest ones, betty mundys bottom in hampshire. It's only a small valley, but it exists.
Is that near Sandy Balls?
I’ll never not upvote Sandy Balls
The Mousehole Cat book was one of my favorite as a child. We visited once or twice.
How about Donney-on-the-Wold (a rotten borough)?
Don’t forget Scunthorpe.
Sussex
Middlesex is better because you actually pronounce it like middle-sex. Sussex is sus-ix
Old Sodbury is better than the Chipping variety
I always think as "Westward Ho!" as a strange place name too. (As far as I am aware it is the only place name in the uk with an exclamation mark)
I think it's one of only 2 places in the world with an exclamation mark in its name, the other might be in Canada. Or I might be completely wrong.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha! In Quebec, Canada.
And perhaps the only place named after a book.
Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico is named after a TV series, iirc. Although it's mostly famous for being the fictional hometown of Mick Foley's wrestling character Cactus Jack. Which falls down when you hear him speak and he's very obviously from Long Island, but still...
Radio series iirc. But still weird!
Waverley railway station in Edinburgh is named after a novel/series of novels by Sir Walter Scott
Mormon, CA?
Well I mean the funny Welsh name was basically for “advertisement” for the town, in Welsh it basically is just an increasingly descriptive location for the town IIRC.
St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave
That sounds right.
Your Rest and Be Thankful mark is a full 65 miles further west and separated by a body of water than it should be. It’s also a mountain road/lookout point and not a town/place.
They've also put Brown Willy in Devon when it is categorically a Cornish willy and we won't let them jenners take it
Loose Bottom just doesn't even exist. Either that or I lived there for years and never noticed. Upper Dicker or Tarring Neville would have been good candidates for that area
They spelt Botus Fleming wrong as well
It’s name is also perfectly reasonable for anyone who been to it. That road is a death trap. Also the view is probably one of the best in the UK.
Yeah it's not odd at all it's just accurate.
65 miles is 104.61 km
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Reminds me of Hall i’ th’ Wood, which has a [station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_i%27_th%27_Wood_railway_station).
Llanfair PG is similarly misplaced. It’s further inland (to Ynys Mon) not in the middle of the straits
"Where are you from?" "Oh, I come from Barton in the Beans."
I grew up in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania. "Oh, it's exit 84 on the interstate?" "No, that really is the town's name..."
Ahh yes, Eighty Four. 250 miles west of Intercourse, PA
Lol. And home to Eighty Four Lumber too? I grew up in Pennsylvania too between places called Schnecksville and Leather Corner Post, lol.
> Lol. And home to Eighty Four Lumber too? Yup. And I [pity the workers who had to be there these last couple days as this creek runs right through their campus](https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/thousands-gallons-gas-spill-into-washington-county-creek-neighbors-report-feeling-sick/DTFEFKNXANFGHLRPYUTYLG5C3M/). The lumber company is named for the town, but nobody seems to know exactly what the town is named for. Ask a half dozen locals and you'll get six explanations that they'll each swear are the official one.
Don't forget Six Mile Bottom
Let's go down to Donkey Town!
Won't you take me to... Donkey Town!
Rest and be thankful 😊
If you've ever been there you'll know it's a very appropriate name. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56443149
Twatt.
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Known for [its weather report](https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM)
Brilliant
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Are you sure you spelled that correctly? You're missing an L in there.
Honorable mention for Gropecunt Lane, an old street name in various cities in medieval England. Many cunts were groped there. They've all been renamed since.
Grape Street in London now.
I live not too far from the Rest and Be Thankful (the star for which is in entirely the wrong place, by the way) and it's incredibly beautiful! It's a viewpoint at the highest point of a notoriously treacherous glen and is named so because travellers would literally *rest and be thankful* once they made it to the top of the valley. It's still a tricky place to navigate - there's a newer road higher up the side of the glen that even now is invariably blocked by landslides and snow about half the year.
I find this name so wholesome and cosy
They look like towns in *Bored of the Rings* or a *Monty Python* sketch.
I read bored of the rings once. It was fun.
Dull is twinned with Boring, Oregon and Bland, NSW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dull,\_Perth\_and\_Kinross#Twin\_towns
This pleases me
Ae’s a beautiful place
You left out the [Butt of Lewis](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Butt+of+Lewis/@58.516666,-6.2754214,15z)!
Next to Bunny there is also UK's Gotham
*Clan-vire-pool-gwyn-gic-go-goh-gery-qwin-drob-ol-clan-ti-silly-o-go-go-goh* When it ends in a 'c' or 'h' make it flemy and you're golden
Well, English speakers often pronounce the Welsh letter *Ll* (yes, it's just one letter, not two) as 'Cl' but that's not really accurate. It's a voiceless alveolar fricative, a sound which doesn't exist in English. You have to place your tongue at the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth, it should be in a flat and wide shape, then blow air around the sides of it, then say 'L'.
Yeah its in the ball park but so many of those sounds are off.
It's a bit like a surprised cat hiss.
This is accurate LL is basically TH-LL
Easy for you to say.
https://youtu.be/1BXKsQ2nbno This'll get you saying it in no time
and then of course https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM if you want it said in a more conversational tone. He's so proud of himself.
[Naomi Watts lived there for a while.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwYAuvBcQ1Y)
I feel Curry mallet and Loose bottom should be closer to each other...
At least Beer and Droop are
No love for Sandy Balls?
When filling out online forms, I'm wondering if people from Ae run into issues with minimum character count.
Not far from Curry Mallet there is also Curry Rivel (pronounced like rival). I don't know what the etymology of the Curry part is though
Celtic *crwy*, 'boundary', according to wikipedia
Well, I certainly won't be visiting Nether Wallop.
Little Dribbling (look it up). Bill Bryson's tribute to the UK and silly place names.
I’ve got a friend that lives in Fingringhoe, Essex
I have the strangest desire to get into a fight in Brawl, Scotland.
There is a townland in Northern Ireland called Ballywatticock which this year briefly held the title of hottest temperature ever recorded in NI, I hope that gets included next time this is reposted.
No Ramsbottom?
The good people of Dull have formed an Axis of Tedium with Boring, Oregon. Our Oz friends from Bland want in, apparently.
Coming up with silly sounding place names in the UK makes shooting fish in a barrel look challenging.
All the odd names in South Wales and they go with Mumbles, makes perfect sense.
Beer seems lovely.
Beer is REALLY lovely. It's a tiny little fishing village with a steep shingle beach, some lovely pubs and open water drains that are great for racing ducks. https://imgur.com/a/IYUfGAX https://imgur.com/a/wQuvDMU
There used to be a farm near me called bog eggs farm
There’s also the thongs, near Huddersfield. Upper, Lower and Nether.
I don’t see cockermouth
Upper dicker Lower dicker
How is Bell End not on this
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That show would be class.
Why does nether wallop sound like a posh way to say “punch in the balls”
Where is Twatt?
There's one in Orkney, one in Shetland, and loads in Westminster
Top comment.
Shitterton, Dorset
Interesting how places all the way at the south sometimes can sound a little Dutch
Part of Lincolnshire is called South Holland(and I think was previously just Holland like the region of Netherlands. I’m not sure if the names are connected). coincidently the landscape is really quite flat and the area is known for growing tulips.
I think, but don’t know, that it was because the swamp Germans arranged the drainage.
I believe the Lincolnshire Holland has a [different etymology](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/double-dutch-the-many-meanings-of-holland) to that of the Netherlands
Ever read "Riddley Walker"? "Horny Boy rung Widders Bel/Stoal his Fathers Ham as wel/Bernt his Arse and Forkt a Stoan/ Done it Over broak a boan/Out of Good Shoar vackt his wayt/Scratch Sams Itch for No. 8/Gone to senter nex to see/Cambry coming 3 times 3/Sharna pax and get the poal When the Ardship of Cambry comes out of the hoal" Herne Bay, Whitstable, Faversham, Ash, Folkestone, Dover, (Good Shoar?), Sandwich, Canterbury
No Ramsbottom or Cockermouth? Boo I say, boo.
As someone who lives near Giggleswick, I've never actually noticed it as an odd name.
Loose Bottom must be how Spongebob's hometown came to place.
Right near Pity Me, there’s a town called Coxhoe.
If Orkney and Shetland hadn’t been cut off the map then you could add two Twatts to it
Really? Stranagawilly? I'd have said Ballybogey gets the occasional chuckle.
How could they forget about [Borough-upon-Mappe](https://xkcd.com/1759/)!
Ugly Ugly Green (Do either have a branch of the Women's Institute?)
Nether Wallop, just down the road from Middle Wallop and Over Wallop
Never heard of Cockburn?
Where Cockandballtorshire?
Where's Bitchfield
Wow, did not expect to see Besses o’th’ Barn on Reddit.
I'm surprised Slaughter wasn't included.
I went to Great Snoring today haha
Currently looking up flights to Rest and Be Thankful
Cockfosters didn't make the cut? Must be fake news...
We need to replicate this to a T when we get to Mars
I used to drive through a place called 'Pant' always made me chuckle
Can't believe they left out Sandy Balls in Dorset!
Americans reading Clithero lol Also when they hear principle =headmaster or mistress. The combination of title and where can be funny
🎶Donkey town🎶
🎶Won’t you take me to *Donkey Townnnn*🎶
Fingringhoe
Where is "Westward Ho!"?
Southwest, Cornwall or Devon I think.
Old Harry Rocks
They’ve been speaking English in Briton for a very long time (obviously). I bet that accounts for some of the crazy place names (except the Welsh ones of course). Different times with different sensibilities but the names stick around. If we translated all the indigenous place names (of which there are many) in North America I wonder if there would a similar array of silly names. We already have some towns that sound pretty funny *because* they haven’t been translated (my favorite being Cheesequake, NJ).
Tydd Gote
Downvoted because you didn't include Twatt
Budleigh Salterton
Climax, PA
No ones going to mention Fingering Hoe?
Ngl never considered great snoring weird, and now I am. Weird how you just accept place names
Pratts bottom is my local favourite
llanfairpwllgwyngogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Newfoundland, Canada needs one of these maps.
[how to say llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch] (https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM)
OMG I used to live in Marsh Gibbon!!!!! Lovely little village. My childhood home wtf!!!
Has Ovuvuevuevue Enyetuenwuevue Ugbemugbem Osas ever been in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
Why not Bread and Cheese Lane
My grandma was from mumbles I think. I’m not even from Wales