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 1 year ago
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Just so you know, that name is new and made up for purely tourist reasons.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
New as in 1800s, pretty sure some of these other places didn’t exist then too.
ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This map is just the tip of the iceberg, some are much more detailed
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 year ago
They missed Shitterton off the maps.
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a funny way to spell Stoke.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I live in between Wide Open and Pity Me!
Buffman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Won’t you take me to… Donkey Town
dsco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I thought Donkey Town was in Tijuana
50_centavos@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
This one?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is the 16th century equivalent of choosing xXxSHitl3rxXx as character name for a game. Respect to the dedication though.
Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Missing Cockermouth
d00phy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And Penistone.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Cockermouth ? I hardly know her!
cosmicrose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s me, Loose Bottom
db2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is that where people from Nether Wallop retire?
BenM2023@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
How did Penistone not make it on this map?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or Cockermouth?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shitterton is usually the name I hear first for these things.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
cockfosters
east ham
slough
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I bet Horrid Hill is actually a nicer place that tried to keep people away. Like a real life Scooby doo town.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I lost it at Ae
Bearbi3@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hi, I’m Lianfairpwilgwyngyligogerychwyrndrobwilllantysiliogogogoch
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
There’s a town called Barrow-in-Furness which officially has the dashes in it.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Westward Ho!
Canada has Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
x4740N@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m sure every country has a list of these
It’s not exclusive to the uk
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 year ago
You could have just said “Dull”, it would have been quicker
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m here to waste time, not to save it
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 year ago
50MYT@aussie.zone 1 year ago
negativeyoda@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Great Snoring
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used to live in Wideopen
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah Giggleswick is pretty slapbottoms for fish’n chipe ae
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
austrailia has some wild ones
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I live near Cockburn
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What about Fringringhoe?
sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Brokenwind is partner town to Barton in the Beans
Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reason: historic invaders
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh, how sad. Did the big, bad, steal everything and colonize the world folk also get colonized? /j
toxicbubble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
plwmp
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I really like that one for some reason.
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Twatt.
alyth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got my username by looking at a map of Scotland and picking something that sounds cool
maculata@aussie.zone 1 year ago
OP is merely envious that they don’t have the freedom to enjoy such names.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
No Braintree?
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Sign on Google Maps
Also nearby are the roads of “Updown” and “The Street”
ItsAFake@lemmus.org 1 year ago
Hey I’ve got an appointment for the Finsglesham deal at half past 4.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
The Finglesham deal discussions will be going well into the night so don’t forget your ham sandwich at half past 3.