I'm about to take you on a journey of discovery from WETWANG to TITTY-HO!!!
I KNOW, what a jolly jaunt you're in for!!
Having been away camping in my tent, I came across a couple of rather strange and amusing 'place names' for towns and villages in England that had me merrily chortling behind my driving wheel!.
This really got my interest going and having done some searching on other names of places around the UK, I thought I'd share just 'a few' that I came up with. Many date to very old Anglo-Saxon times when the words they used then had very different meanings and backgrounds to what we have for them now!! (language and meanings is very fluid through the ages and is continually evolving).
So... With rather hilarious (well I think so!) results, grab your Ginger Beer and make yourself comfortable. Enjoy having a giggle or two!
TWATT - in Orkney (OK - Scotland!)
WETWANG - East Yorks
PENISTONE - South Yorks
Lower Swell - Gloucs
LICKEY END - Worcs
SHITTERTON - Dorset
UGLEY - Essex
COCKING - Sussex
BROWN WILLY - Cornwall
BADGERS MOUNT - Near Farnborough
BALLS CROSS - west Sussex
BELL END - Worcs
LOOSE BOTTOM - East Sussex
BLUE VEIN - Wilts
BOOBY DINGLE - Herts
BOTTOM FLASH - Cheshire
BOTTOMS - Manchester
BULLYHOLE BOTTOM - Monmouthshire
BUMMER'S HILL - Herts
BUTTOCK POINT - Isle of Bute
COCKUP BOTTOM - Cumbria
LICKHAM BOTTOM - Devon
LAND OF NOD - Hants
CUCKOO's KNOB - Wilts
DANCING DICKS - Essex
GOLDEN BALLS - Oxon
GREAT COCKUP - Cumbria
HEN POO - Berwick on Tweed
MANKINHOLES - West Yorks
SHAGG - Dorset
SHITTERTON - Dorset
SPUNKIE - Ayrshire (OK - Scotland!)
STIFF STREET - Kent
TITTY HO - Northants
TWATT - Orkney (Scotland)
WIDE OPEN - Newcastle on Tyne
MUFF - (Ireland's Entry!)
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