Funny British Place Names

[richlevy]

Ok, I admit that here in Pennsylvania, USA we have Intercourse, Bird in Hand, and Blue Ball. I still think the Brits went over the top.

Crapstone? Penistone? Wetwang? Crotch Crescent?

I wouldn't mind visiting Titty Ho or Slutshole Lane, though.

From here

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.
Others evoke images that may conflict with residents’ efforts to appear dignified when, for example, applying for jobs.
These include Crotch Crescent, Oxford; Titty Ho, Northamptonshire; Wetwang, East Yorkshire; Slutshole Lane, Norfolk; and Thong, Kent. And, in a country that delights in lavatory humor, particularly if the word “bottom” is involved, there is Pratts Bottom, in Kent, doubly cursed because “prat” is slang for buffoon.

“It’s pronounced ‘PENNIS-tun,’ ” Fiona Moran, manager of the Old Vicarage Hotel in Penistone, said over the telephone, rather sharply. When forced to spell her address for outsiders, she uses misdirection, separating the tricky section into two blameless parts: “p-e-n” — pause — “i-s-t-o-n-e.”

I immediately flashed on Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. "That's Frahn-ken-steen".

It does sort of remind me of when Beaver College (now Arcadia) was an all-women's school.