RMweb Premium Torper Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 There's a street in Kirriemuir called The Moon. I've no idea why it's called that but I suspect that when people who live there place telephone orders they may have some difficulty persuading the vendor to deliver to, say, 3 The Moon. DT 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Not far from me, on one of my regular cycle routes, the back road between Uplawmoor and Lugton, is a house with the delightful name of........Spunkie ! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Then there's the Slaughters, Upper and Lower! Brian. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 And in the garden of England, Pratt's Bottom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, brianusa said: Then there's the Slaughters, Upper and Lower! Brian. Not that far from P*ss Hill...! Just a few miles outside Rugby is a little place called Mancetta, it sounds like it should be somewhere much more exotic than deepest Warwickshire. Round here, anything starting or ending in Magna, Parva or Toft is considered right posh (I was born in Harborough Magna, but I'm far from posh). Edited March 9, 2020 by Rugd1022 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nickey Line Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) There's yet another California in Norfolk, Ireland is in Central Bedfordshire (yes, all of it!) and not far away is Wibbly Wobbly Lane... Not forgetting the many Bottoms to be found in the Chilterns; Hogspit Bottom springs to mind for some reason! Ooh nearly forgot! One for all diesel fans... Claggy Road, in Kimpton, Herts. I wonder how long before that appears as the name of a TMD... Edited March 9, 2020 by Nickey Line Added Claggy Road... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Talking of Bedfordshire, I often have to drive the Freighliner staff vans to and from our longer jobs and pass through a little village on the A6 called Milton Ernest, it sounds like the name of a novel written by someone like Oscar Wilde. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 5 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: No Philadelphia is near Bath. I think the (Pithead) Bath has long gone at Philadelphia, County Durham, where they still build steam engines 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) Exotic place names ? There's sod (h)all in Little Hulton https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/index.cfm#zoom=18&lat=53.53661&lon=-2.41652&layers=168&b=1 And I'm glad I wasn't born here - just a couple of miles north https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/index.cfm#zoom=17&lat=53.55701&lon=-2.37459&layers=168&b=1 Brit15 Edited March 9, 2020 by APOLLO 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Not far from where I grew up in Marston, Oxford, is a road with another delightful name, Crotch Crescent. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: And in the garden of England, Pratt's Bottom. Not to mention Pett Bottom and Lynsore Bottom. My wife briefly had riding lessons at the latter; guess what her first name is... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 1 hour ago, APOLLO said: Exotic place names ? ... And I'm glad I wasn't born here - just a couple of miles north https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/index.cfm#zoom=17&lat=53.55701&lon=-2.37459&layers=168&b=1 ... And wasn’t there a 1960s pop singer called Little Lever ? (Scroll on a wee bit NE from Nob End) dh 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, runs as required said: ... And wasn’t there a 1960s pop singer called Little Lever ? Curiously, Little Eva (Eva Boyd) got her break by being baby sitter for Carole King and Gerry Goffin. They wrote "The Loco-Motion" together but Dee Dee Sharp passed on it. Wikipedia: Quote King and Goffin wrote "The Loco-Motion" in hopes to have it recorded by Dee Dee Sharp, who had a smash hit with "Mashed Potato Time". Sharp passed on the song leaving the opportunity open for Eva Boyd, who had recorded the demo. Boyd's version was released, and her name was changed to Little Eva. Boyd was actually Carole King's babysitter, having been introduced to King and King's husband Gerry Goffin by The Cookies, a local girl group who would also record for the songwriters. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Aye true, we called our first cat Loco cos’ she came from Littlle Lever. Sadly she ran away to sea on a Kelly boat from Herculaneum L’pool, once our firstborn arrived back from Maternity hospital to Grafton St in the Dingle in 1964. We still mourn her. dh 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 In the East Riding, we have : https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=484500&y=436500&z=120&sv=land+of+nod&st=3&tl=Map+of+Land+of+Nod,+East+Riding+of+Yorkshire&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf Adrian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2020 4 hours ago, PhilJ W said: And in the garden of England, Pratt's Bottom. The Orpington Model Railway Club's exhibition is held in Pratts Bottom Village Hall. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Nickey Line said: There's yet another California in Norfolk, Ireland is in Central Bedfordshire (yes, all of it!) and not far away is Wibbly Wobbly Lane... Not forgetting the many Bottoms to be found in the Chilterns; Hogspit Bottom springs to mind for some reason! Ooh nearly forgot! One for all diesel fans... Claggy Road, in Kimpton, Herts. I wonder how long before that appears as the name of a TMD... I had the misfortune to follow my SatNav down Wibbly Wobbly Lane not many weeks back. I should have realised, but had already made the turn. Still, it is nicer than Fancy Farm, in Greenock. Not Fancy, and not a farm. Regards Ian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 There is a hamlet called York in Lancashire.......... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Moxy Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 There is a Montserrat Road in Bolton, supposedly named after a Spanish monastery. There is also a road called Main Sprit Weind in Preston. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Moxy said: There is a Montserrat Road in Bolton, supposedly named after a Spanish monastery. There is also a road called Main Sprit Weind in Preston. Montserrat, a short distance from Barcelona, is one of the most spectacular sites in Europe. Seems strange though to name a street in Bolton after it unless on an estate where all the street names are monastery-related. PS: Seems a bit unlikely. Are other nearby roads named after Caribbean islands? Edited March 10, 2020 by Joseph_Pestell Add 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold scottystitch Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2020 There is a Dallas in Moray. And also a hamlet that is Lost, in Aberdeenshire...somewhere. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) 17 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: There is a part of the Wirral near Bromborough called Magazine. Named after an ammunition store rather than the printed type. ...the explosives were actually stored on a hulked ex-RN Gunboat (1868). My Grandparents lived in the village, and my Grandfather was foreman in charge of the hulk (called 'Swallow'). A lot of locals don't even know it was ever there - the village was demolished in 1969. While I'm here, I'd like to nominate my own village, Offord D'arcy, as a principal character in a Jane Austen novel... Edited March 10, 2020 by billy_anorak59 Nomination 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 copied from the Wacky signs thread. Taken when the prototype TR2 went round the country for members to drive, not everyday you get to drive a 70 year old car. The name may relate to the burning of Moscow in 1812. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2020 1 hour ago, billy_anorak59 said: While I'm here, I'd like to nominate my own village, Offord D'arcy, as a principal character in a Jane Austen novel... As in "She Offord her honour, he honoured her offer, and all night long he was on her and off her." ISTR the actor Colin Firth rose to fame after playing the D'Arcy role on the Beeb. 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 14 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Not that far from P*ss Hill...! Just a few miles outside Rugby is a little place called Mancetta, it sounds like it should be somewhere much more exotic than deepest Warwickshire. Round here, anything starting or ending in Magna, Parva or Toft is considered right posh (I was born in Harborough Magna, but I'm far from posh). Pishill if you please! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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