I’m from the UK and thought these had to be fake til I saw Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Nope, all real.
I'm loose bottom, tag yourself
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Aggravationstation@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Just so you know, that name is new and made up for purely tourist reasons.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
New as in 1800s, pretty sure some of these other places didn’t exist then too.
ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This map is just the tip of the iceberg, some are much more detailed
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 8 months ago
They missed Shitterton off the maps.
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a funny way to spell Stoke.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I live in between Wide Open and Pity Me!
Buffman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Won’t you take me to… Donkey Town
dsco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I thought Donkey Town was in Tijuana
50_centavos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
With amount of times I have have to write down my address for work, I would love to live in donkey town.
I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This one?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is the 16th century equivalent of choosing xXxSHitl3rxXx as character name for a game. Respect to the dedication though.
Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can’t belive they didn’t include Westward Ho!, the only place name in the UK which officially includes an exclamation mark.
bucket_full_of_odos@startrek.website 8 months ago
Missing Cockermouth
d00phy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And Penistone.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Cockermouth ? I hardly know her!
cosmicrose@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s me, Loose Bottom
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is that where people from Nether Wallop retire?
BenM2023@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hi it’s your long lost cousin Scratchy Bottom (dry valley west of lulworth cove) Our grandpa still lives in Shaggs (hamlet north of Lulworth) but grandma is in Shitterton (hamlet next to Bere Regis) …
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 8 months ago
How did Penistone not make it on this map?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or Cockermouth?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Shitterton is usually the name I hear first for these things.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
cockfosters
east ham
slough
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Hey, at least we invented place names instead of just recycling English town names like the colonies. I lived in a village called Idle for years.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I lived in a village called Idle for years.
So for all those years you didn’t have the urge to leave Idle, you just sort of stayed there?
I can relate.
ItsAFake@lemmus.org 8 months ago
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I bet Horrid Hill is actually a nicer place that tried to keep people away. Like a real life Scooby doo town.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lost is smack in the middle of the world’s best whiskey.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
You a speyside or a highlands fan?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I lost it at Ae
Bearbi3@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hi, I’m Lianfairpwilgwyngyligogerychwyrndrobwilllantysiliogogogoch
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s always Westward Ho! which has to be spelled with an exclamation mark like that, as if they’d let boomer facebook name a town.
Aggravationstation@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
There’s a town called Barrow-in-Furness which officially has the dashes in it.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Westward Ho!
Canada has Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
x4740N@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sure every country has a list of these
It’s not exclusive to the uk
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 8 months ago
You could have just said “Dull”, it would have been quicker
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m here to waste time, not to save it
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yes, I’ve seen plenty. I’ve heard here in Finland that one explanation for some of the bizarre and let us say rude names is cartographers going around asking people what this or that place is called and people having fun with it or just fucking with them. And I think a lot of people just find it amusing in general. “Hey, that hill looks like a tit. Titty hill. Hehe.”
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
A lot of names are also based on folk etymology, where corrupted names or names from different languages get merged with similar sounding words of completely different meaning.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Nikls94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
50MYT@aussie.zone 8 months ago
negativeyoda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I travel through Boring Oregon (just outside of Portland) who’s sister city is Dull, so I guess that’s me
stinerman@midwest.social 8 months ago
Great Snoring
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I used to live in Wideopen
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah Giggleswick is pretty slapbottoms for fish’n chipe ae
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
austrailia has some wild ones
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I live near Cockburn
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What about Fringringhoe?
sagrotan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Brokenwind is partner town to Barton in the Beans
Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Reason: historic invaders
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh, how sad. Did the big, bad, steal everything and colonize the world folk also get colonized? /j
toxicbubble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
plwmp
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I really like that one for some reason.
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Twatt.
alyth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I got my username by looking at a map of Scotland and picking something that sounds cool
maculata@aussie.zone 8 months ago
OP is merely envious that they don’t have the freedom to enjoy such names.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
No Braintree?
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m a personal fan of Ham, which is located right next to Sandwich!
A street sign showing Ham and Sandwich!
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Sign on Google Maps
Also nearby are the roads of “Updown” and “The Street”
ItsAFake@lemmus.org 8 months ago
Hey I’ve got an appointment for the Finsglesham deal at half past 4.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
The Finglesham deal discussions will be going well into the night so don’t forget your ham sandwich at half past 3.