Here is a list of interesting-sounding place names that have been collected over several years:
- Abington Pigotts near Cambridge.
- Ab Kettleby near Melton Mowbray.
- Ae near Dumfries. The shortest place name in Britain.
- Affpuddle near Dorchester.
- Agglethorpe in Coverdale, North Yorkshire.
- Arpafeelie north of Inverness.
- Badger's Mount near Farnborough.
- Balls Cross, West Sussex.
- Barton in the Beans, west of Leicester.
- Beeswing near Dumfries.
- Blackadder near Berwick upon Tweed.
- Blindcrake near Cockermouth, Cumbria.
- Blubberhouses near Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire. (anyone lost some
giant golf balls?)
- Blue Anchor on the Somerset coast.
- Botusfleming near Saltash, Cornwall.
- Bozomzeal near Dartmouth, Devon.
- Brawl near Thurso at the top of Scotland.
- Briantspuddle near Dorchester.
- Brill east of Oxford. A really great place!
- Broadwoodwidger near Launceston.
- Burton-le-Coggles near Grantham.
- Cargo Fleet Middlesborough.
- Catbrain near Cribb's Causeway, north of Bristol.
- Chaldron Herring near Lulworth Cove.
- Chignall Smeally near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Chipping Sodbury east of Bristol.
- Clatter west of Newtown, Powys.
- Cleckheaton West Yorkshire.
- Clenchwarton near King's Lynn, Norfolk.
- Clock Face near St. Helen's, Merseyside.
- Compton Pauncefoot near Yeovil.
- Court Henry near Carmarthen.
- Crank near St. Helens, Merseyside.
- Coffinswell near Torquay, Devon.
- Dent near Sedbergh, North Yorkshire.
- Dog Village near Exeter.
- Diggle east of Oldham, Greater Manchester.
- Dukinfield, Tameside, Greater Manchester.
- Dull near Pitlochry.
- Duntisbourne Leer near Cirencester.
- Easter Kinkell near Dingwall, Inverness.
- Eccup north of Leeds.
- Ferwig, Cardigan.
- Fogo near Coldstream in the Borders.
- Foul Mile near Hailsham, East Sussex.
- Frenchbeer on Dartmoor.
- Four Throws near Sandhurst, Kent.
- Germansweek near Launceston.
- George Nympton near Barnstaple.
- Giggleswick near Settle, North Yorkshire.
- Glossop, Derbyshire. What a nice word.
- Good Easter near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Goole, East Yorkshire. (Just for the sound of it.)
- Goonbell near Redruth, Cornwall.
- Goosnargh north of Preston.
- Green Street Green near Farnborough.
- Grike near Egremont, Cumbria.
- Grimness on South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
- Great Snoring near Walsingham, Norfolk.
- Grumbla near Lands End.
- Gussage St. Michael near Blandford Forum, Dorset.
- Hamsterley near Bishop Auckland (also Consett) Durham.
- Haselbury Plucknett near Yeovil.
- Heanton Punchardon near Barnstaple. (Might cause this page to be
rejected by certain software!)
- Heckmondwike east of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
- Heglibister on the Mainland of Shetland.
- Helions Bumpstead near Saffron Walden.
- Hinton Blewett between Bath and Weston super Mare.
- Hinton-in-the-Hedges near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
- Hole in the Wall near Ross-on-Wye.
- Hopton Wafers east of Ludlow.
- Howle north of Telford, Shropshire.
- Hoyland Swaine west of Barnsley.
- Huish Episcopi near Langport, Somerset.
- Idle near Bradford. (Idle Working Men's Club?)
- Indian Queens near Newquay, Cornwall.
- Inkpen near Newbury, Berkshire.
- Kemeys Commander near Pontypool, Gwent.
- Kettlesing Bottom west of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
- Killiecrankie near Pitlochrie.
- Kirkby Overblow south of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
- Kitty Brewster, Aberdeen.
- Landshipping near Pembroke. (Rival to Manchester Ship Canal?)
- Leake Hurn's End near Boston, west of the Wash.
- Leaves Green near Biggin Hill. (Except in Autumn?)
- Leonard Stanley near Stroud.
- Leysdown on Sea Isle of Sheppey, Kent (like on the Dead Sea?).
- Lilliput near Bournemeouth.
- Loggerheads between Stoke and Shrewsbury (also near Mold).
- Long Load near Yeovil.
- Loudwater near High Wickham.
- Lower Slaughter near Bourton on the Water.
- Mabe Burnthouse, Falmouth, Cornwall.
- Mankinholes near Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
- Mappowder near Dorchester.
- Melbury Bubb near Yeovil.
- Muddles Green near Hailsham, East Sussex.
- Muggleswick near Consett, Durham.
- Mumbles, Swansea.
- Mumps, Oldham, Greater Manchester.
- Nasty near Stevenage. (Nasty Women's Institute?)
- Nempnett Thrubwell between Bath and Weston super Mare.
- Netherthong near Huddersfield.
- Nether Wallop near Andover.
- New Invention near Walsall, W. Midlands. (also in Shropshire)
- Old Wives Lees near Canterbury.
- Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn.
- Piddlehinton near Dorchester.
- Pity Me north of Durham.
- Polyphant near Launceston.
- Potto south of Stockton-on-Tees.
- Pratt's Bottom near Farnborough.
- Praze-an-Beeble near Cambourne.
- Queen Camel near Yeovil, Somerset.
- Ramsbottom north of Bury, Greater Manchester.
- Ratcliffe in the Wreake north of Leicester.
- Raw near Whitby. (naked or half-baked?)
- Ruyton-XI-Towns Shropshire.
- Ryme Intrinsica near Yeovil.
- Scagglethorpe near Malton, North Yorkshire.
- Sheepy Parva near Nuneaton.
- Shellow Bowells near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Slepe near Poole, Dorset.
- Six Mile Bottom near Cambridge.
- Sixpenny Handley near Blandford Forum.
- The Dicker near Hailsham, East Sussex.
- Throcking near Stevenage.
- Thrupp near Stroud (also one near Oxford)
- Thwing near Bridlington.
- Tincleton near Dorchester.
- Trull near Taunton.
- Trunch near Cromer.
- Turner's Puddle near Dorchester.
- Twatt on the Mainland of Orkney.
- Twenty near Spalding, Lincs.
- Twerton, Bath.
- Twelveheads near Redruth, Cornwall.
- Ugglebarnby near Whitby.
- Ugley near Bishop's Stortford. (Home of the Ugley Women's Institute?)
- Upend near Newmarket.
- Up Sydling near Dorchester.
- Upton Snodsbury near Worcester. (Borsetshire)
- Wendens Ambo near Saffron Walden.
- Wendy near Cambridge.
- Wergs, Wolverhampton.
- Westley Waterless near Cambridge.
- Westonzoyland near Bridgewater, Somerset.
- Westward Ho! Devon. The place with the pling!
- Wetwang near Bridlington.
- Wide Open, north of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Wigan, Greater Manchester. How could it escape a list of delightful names?
- Wildboarclough near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
- Wincle near Macclesfield.
- Wittering near Peterborough. (No - there couldn't be a Wittering
Women's Institute, could there?)
- World's End west of Birmingham, also near Newbury.
- Wormiehills on the coast, east of Dundee.
- Wrangle near Boston, west of the Wash.
- Yarkhill east of Hereford.
- Yarrow Feus south of Edinburgh.
- Yetts O'Muckhart east of Stirling.
- Yockenthwaite in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire.
- Zeal Monachorum north-west of Exeter.
These place names were selected as some of them sounded unusual, some sounded interesting, some just sounded funny and some a little rude. It is up to you to decide which is which!
This list is original. Other combinations of names exist on other sites, but if you see this exact list somewhere else it has been copied from here!