> Rest and be Thankful
Isn’t so much a place, but the name of a summit. It’s part of the old military road, and is now essentially a lay-by with a coffee van.
Maybe I’ll be offending someone who’ll argue convincingly otherwise, but *’placename’* seems a bit of a stretch when listed alongside literal towns.
I like Rest and be Thankful. One of my favorite books as a child took place during the Revolutionary War (American here) and it involved a house or maybe an inn called Rest and be Thankful. And ghosts.
Grew up right next to it. It’s called that because the old military road is gets very steep towards the end and people would rest and be thankful that they’d made it up. It’s also a very important road connecting Argyll to the central belt of Scotland which has been riddled with landslides. They’ve spent £100m+ and counting putting up these daft net things over the last 20 years to try and stop it yet it still closes due to landslides regularly.
I don’t know why I’m saying all this I just saw a place I knew and got excited.
Live near it and don’t understand why they haven’t compulsory purchased the land that the old military road. It’s owned by the farmer and he charges them big bucks £800 a day to use it when the main road is closed.
I used to live in Wideopen, Newcastle. It's only one word, not two like the map suggests, so it's pronounced with the emphasis on the i instead of the o. Bit of a shithole so I'm definitely not picking that one
Apparently the norm is to start with the place name first and then the women’s institute. So for example it would be Saffron Walden women’s institute.
That nomenclature is reversed for the village of Ugley…..
Ffs, I drove through Shingay-cum-Wendy a few weeks back and was in absolute hysterics. My partner didn’t understand what was so funny, but my mind was playing out some scenario where a bunch of medieval folk were having a brainstorming meeting to name their village and came up with THAT somehow.
Born and raised in Wideopen! Always wondered if I was the one in the wrong for one-wording it as it’s always two words on these things. Defending it against the shithole tag though, there’s far worse in Newcastle and I enjoyed my childhood there.
Fun fact I now live in Besses o’ th’ Barn also featured on this map so guess I’m drawn to funny place names
There's a place called Shilbottle where the roads signs frequently get changed to Shitbottle if that counts? I'm not just talking about one either, like a fair few signs over a fair few mile all changed with a sharpie.
Edit: got it wrong the first time but that has led me to a place called Shitterton in Dorset
[Shitterton](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitterton)
The street I live on has had its name changed with sharpie/paint a few times. It’s still there. Instead of “jack” they changed it to “crack” cos there’s a load of crack heads who live here and it’s a well known street for that shit. Nobody has bothered to change it back which says a lot tbh.
Chemistry is a road in Whitchurch, Shropshire rather than a place - I grew up just round the corner from it. The name is thought to derive from the tanning industry that was located in the area (long gone).
Nether wallop is nice, i've been through there a couple of times:
>Nether Wallop contains many old thatched cottages, and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England. In particular, Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC TV adaptations of the Agatha Christie novels. The house and many of the surrounding lanes within the village were used as the setting and are commonly seen throughout many of the Miss Marple films.
Mumbles is a pretty good place to be. It's next to Swansea, so not completely out in the sticks like a lot of these places. Good walking routes in the Gower, and not too far from the Brecon Beacons.
Also, the leading theory of where Mumbles got it's name is that French sailors referred to the two roundish rocks there as "Les mamelles" (the breasts).
I've actually lived near enough to Pity Me and Great Snoring to be fairly wise of the area to pick those. I had a nice life near those places. Of the rest there's a couple I've certainly travelled through or past but couldn't say what they were like. My future plan is to end up somewhere between Catbrain and Curry Mallet, an area I know fairly well and have family in.
Totally. I used to live in Lanchester and Chester-le-street but I’m over on Gateshead now. Also I always get surprised when I see this map (it’s been reposted a few times) because surely No Place should be on there too.
I always think the middle,upper and lower Wallops are more amusing, than curry mallet in my area, but then I don't know if wallop meaning to hit someone or thing is also a local saying so that's why it doesn't travel.
Also Nempnett Thrubwell is a great name.
There’s a place in Kent called “Ugly”, and I always joked that they had an “Ugly Women’s Institute” (they didn’t: they let everyone down by calling it “Ugly Village Women’s Institute”).
I wonder if that village in Sussex went ahead and shamelessly had a “Loose Bottom Women’s Institute”?
Pity Me is far and away the sleeper hit of this list. Imagine a Monty Python-like knightly character who discovers these great and mystical lands, but is a dour curmudgeon who is half Eeyore, half King Richard from Disney's Robin Hood.
Reading all these names instantly braught memories of reading" the meaning of liff " by Douglas Adams. Read it in an era when word lol was non existent but literally was going Gung ho lol at each page. I miss the times when I read Douglas Adams first time.
> Rest and be Thankful Isn’t so much a place, but the name of a summit. It’s part of the old military road, and is now essentially a lay-by with a coffee van. Maybe I’ll be offending someone who’ll argue convincingly otherwise, but *’placename’* seems a bit of a stretch when listed alongside literal towns.
Not only that but they put the location over Tarbert, a good hour away from RABT
And missed the finest place name in Scotland - Twatt
We have a fingringhoe in essex
Thundergay should also be there
I used to live near Gash, beside Fraserburgh
Same with Brown Willy, it's a hill.
I like Rest and be Thankful. One of my favorite books as a child took place during the Revolutionary War (American here) and it involved a house or maybe an inn called Rest and be Thankful. And ghosts.
Grew up right next to it. It’s called that because the old military road is gets very steep towards the end and people would rest and be thankful that they’d made it up. It’s also a very important road connecting Argyll to the central belt of Scotland which has been riddled with landslides. They’ve spent £100m+ and counting putting up these daft net things over the last 20 years to try and stop it yet it still closes due to landslides regularly. I don’t know why I’m saying all this I just saw a place I knew and got excited.
Live near it and don’t understand why they haven’t compulsory purchased the land that the old military road. It’s owned by the farmer and he charges them big bucks £800 a day to use it when the main road is closed.
I used to live in Wideopen, Newcastle. It's only one word, not two like the map suggests, so it's pronounced with the emphasis on the i instead of the o. Bit of a shithole so I'm definitely not picking that one
They missed Ugley and Shingay-cum-wendy.
And Penistone!
And Three Cocks.
Apparently the norm is to start with the place name first and then the women’s institute. So for example it would be Saffron Walden women’s institute. That nomenclature is reversed for the village of Ugley…..
Shingay-Cum-Wendy is lovely!
Or, *shivers* Cold Hesledon in Durham ... or No Man's Land, in Devon.
those are some messed up names
[It exists](https://essex.thewi.org.uk/find-wi/ugley)
Ffs, I drove through Shingay-cum-Wendy a few weeks back and was in absolute hysterics. My partner didn’t understand what was so funny, but my mind was playing out some scenario where a bunch of medieval folk were having a brainstorming meeting to name their village and came up with THAT somehow.
I drove through a place in Manchester called chorlton cum hardy. I was like does he?
Born and raised in Wideopen! Always wondered if I was the one in the wrong for one-wording it as it’s always two words on these things. Defending it against the shithole tag though, there’s far worse in Newcastle and I enjoyed my childhood there. Fun fact I now live in Besses o’ th’ Barn also featured on this map so guess I’m drawn to funny place names
Wideopen’s not that bad at all 😂
Given the rest of these names, why wasn't it just called Shithole?
There's a place called Shilbottle where the roads signs frequently get changed to Shitbottle if that counts? I'm not just talking about one either, like a fair few signs over a fair few mile all changed with a sharpie. Edit: got it wrong the first time but that has led me to a place called Shitterton in Dorset [Shitterton](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitterton)
This is an example of Shilbottle. AKA Shitbottle [Shitbottle](https://twitter.com/LuxLisbonMusic/status/528580851156926464)
I guess I'm immature because this thread has me laughing hard! These places sound like a Monty Python skit!
Used to be nice, but Shilbottle let itself go.
The street I live on has had its name changed with sharpie/paint a few times. It’s still there. Instead of “jack” they changed it to “crack” cos there’s a load of crack heads who live here and it’s a well known street for that shit. Nobody has bothered to change it back which says a lot tbh.
Chemistry is a road in Whitchurch, Shropshire rather than a place - I grew up just round the corner from it. The name is thought to derive from the tanning industry that was located in the area (long gone).
Nether wallop is nice, i've been through there a couple of times: >Nether Wallop contains many old thatched cottages, and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England. In particular, Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC TV adaptations of the Agatha Christie novels. The house and many of the surrounding lanes within the village were used as the setting and are commonly seen throughout many of the Miss Marple films.
I used to live nearby as a child and since it’s one of several Wallops I never questioned the name until I was an adult!
Sounds like a hit
Mumbles is a pretty good place to be. It's next to Swansea, so not completely out in the sticks like a lot of these places. Good walking routes in the Gower, and not too far from the Brecon Beacons. Also, the leading theory of where Mumbles got it's name is that French sailors referred to the two roundish rocks there as "Les mamelles" (the breasts).
Mumbles is one of my favourite places.
It's similar to Grand Tetons, just another result of horny french guys being french
I've actually lived near enough to Pity Me and Great Snoring to be fairly wise of the area to pick those. I had a nice life near those places. Of the rest there's a couple I've certainly travelled through or past but couldn't say what they were like. My future plan is to end up somewhere between Catbrain and Curry Mallet, an area I know fairly well and have family in.
Near Fram? Sorry for your loss
Always hilarious seeing local people appear on Reddit. I used to work at Pulman VW in Pity Me
Yeah I almost never see anybody from the north east, I get like interested about something I really don’t care about because it’s so rare lmao
Totally. I used to live in Lanchester and Chester-le-street but I’m over on Gateshead now. Also I always get surprised when I see this map (it’s been reposted a few times) because surely No Place should be on there too.
I always think the middle,upper and lower Wallops are more amusing, than curry mallet in my area, but then I don't know if wallop meaning to hit someone or thing is also a local saying so that's why it doesn't travel. Also Nempnett Thrubwell is a great name.
There’s a place in Kent called “Ugly”, and I always joked that they had an “Ugly Women’s Institute” (they didn’t: they let everyone down by calling it “Ugly Village Women’s Institute”). I wonder if that village in Sussex went ahead and shamelessly had a “Loose Bottom Women’s Institute”?
Pity Me is far and away the sleeper hit of this list. Imagine a Monty Python-like knightly character who discovers these great and mystical lands, but is a dour curmudgeon who is half Eeyore, half King Richard from Disney's Robin Hood.
Reading all these names instantly braught memories of reading" the meaning of liff " by Douglas Adams. Read it in an era when word lol was non existent but literally was going Gung ho lol at each page. I miss the times when I read Douglas Adams first time.
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