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Old 08-14-2006, 11:31 AM   #1
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Unusual Place Names

Following the place names listed in the Where You Are thread (Cities & Travel).

I'm cheating because I'm asking people to post place names they know, whereas I was simply sent these. I have been to some of them, but am offering the list as a thread starter:

· Ae near Dumfries. The shortest place name in Britain.
· Badger's Mount near Farnborough.
· Balls Cross, West Sussex.
· Barton in the Beans, west of Leicester.
· Botusfleming, near SaltashCornwall.
· Bozomzeal near Dartmouth, Devon.
· Briantspuddle near Dorchester.
· Broadwoodwidger near Launceston.
· Catbrain near Cribb's Causeway, north of Bristol.
· Chaldron Herring near Lulworth Cove.
· Chignall Smeally near Chelmsford, Essex.
· Compton Pauncefoot near Yeovil.
· Dog Village near Exeter.
· Eccup north of Leeds.
· Foul Mile near Hailsham, East Sussex.
· Frenchbeer on Dartmoor.
· Goonbell near Redruth, Cornwall.
· Grimness on South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
· Great Snoring near Walsingham, Norfolk.
· Gussage St. Michael near Blandford Forum, Dorset.
· Heanton Punchardon near Barnstaple.
· Heckmondwike east of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
· Heglibister on the Mainland of Shetland.
· Helions Bumpstead near Saffron Walden.
· Hinton-in-the-Hedges near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
· Hole in the Wall near Ross-on-Wye.
· Hoyland Swaine west of Barnsley.
· Huish Episcopi near Langport, Somerset.
· Idle near Bradford.
· Kettlesing Bottom west of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
· Killiecrankie near Pitlochrie.
· Leake Hurn's End near Boston, west of the Wash.
· Lower Slaughter near Bourton on the Water.
· Mabe Burnthouse, Falmouth, Cornwall.
· Mumps, Oldham, Greater Manchester.
· Nasty near Stevenage.
· Nempnett Thrubwell between Bath and Weston super Mare.
· Netherthong near Huddersfield.
· Nether Wallop near Andover.
· Old Wives Lees near Canterbury.
· Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn.
· Piddlehinton near Dorchester.
· Pity Me north of Durham.
· Pratt's Bottom near Farnborough.
· Praze-an-Beeble near Cambourne.
· Ruyton-XI-Towns Shropshire.
· Ryme Intrinsica near Yeovil.
· Sheepy Parva near Nuneaton.
· Shellow Bowells near Chelmsford, Essex.
· Six Mile Bottom near Cambridge.
· The Dicker near Hailsham, East Sussex.
· Throcking near Stevenage.
· Thrupp near Stroud (also one near Oxford)
· Thwing near Bridlington.
· Twatt on the Mainland of Orkney.
· Ugglebarnby near Whitby.
· Ugley near Bishop's Stortford.
· Upton Snodsbury near Worcester. (Borsetshire)
· Westonzoyland near Bridgewater, Somerset.
· Westward Ho! Devon.
· Wetwang near Bridlington.
· Wormiehills on the coast, east of Dundee.
· Yarrow Feus south of Edinburgh.
· Yetts O'Muckhart east of Stirling.
· Yockenthwaite in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire.
· Zeal Monachorum north-west of Exeter.

... and feel free to add any from your own experience!
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