Here is a list of interesting-sounding place names that have been collected over several years:
- Abinger Hammer, near Guildford, Surrey.
- Abington Pigotts, near Cambridge.
- Ab Kettleby, near Melton Mowbray.
- Above Church, near Cheadle, Staffordshire.
- Ae, near Dumfries. The shortest place name in Britain.
- Affetside, near Bury, Lancashire.
- Affpuddle, near Dorchester.
- Agglethorpe, in Coverdale, North Yorkshire.
- Ainderby Quernhow, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
- Alsop-en-le-Dale, near Buxton, Derbyshire.
- America, near Ely, Cambridgeshire.
- Anthill Common, near Waterlooville, Hampshire.
- Anton's Gout, near Boston, Lincolnshire.
- Apes Dale, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
- Arpafeelie, near Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty.
- Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
- Assloss, near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
- Auchenshuggle, Glasgow.
- Auquhorthies, near Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire.
- Bablock Hythe, near Oxford.
- Badger's Mount, near Farnborough.
- Balls Cross, West Sussex.
- Bare, near Morecambe, Lancashire.
- Barton in the Beans, west of Leicester.
- Bashall Eaves, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.
- Batchelor's Bump, near Hastings, Sussex.
- Beer, near Seaton, Devon.
- Beercrocombe, near Taunton, Somerset.
- Beeswing, near Dumfries.
- Bell End, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
- Besses o'th' Barn, south of Bury, Greater Manchester.
- Billy Row, near Crook, Durham.
- Binchester Blocks, near Spennymoor, Durham.
- Black Car, near Wymondham, Norfolk.
- Blackadder, near Berwick upon Tweed.
- Blandford Forum, Dorset.
- Bleet, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
- Blindcrake, near Cockermouth, Cumbria.
- Blubberhouses, near Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire. (anyone lost some
giant golf balls?)
- Blue Anchor, on the Somerset coast.
- Blue Vein, near Box, Wiltshire. (a bit cheesy?)
- Boghead, near Tarland, Aberdeenshire.
- Bognor Regis, Sussex.
- Booby Dingle, near Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
- Boot, Cumbria (and one in Cornwall).
- Booze, Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire (but no pub, sadly).
- Bottom Flash, near Winsford, Cheshire.
- Bottoms, Mossley, Greater Manchester.
- Botusfleming, near Saltash, Cornwall.
- Box, near Corsham, Wiltshire.
- Brassknocker, Monkton Combe, near Bath.
- Brawl, near Thurso at the top of Scotland.
- Briantspuddle, near Dorchester.
- Brill, east of Oxford. A really great place!
- Broadbottom, near Hyde, Greater Manchester.
- Broadwoodwidger, near Launceston.
- Brown Willy, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
- Bulley, west of Gloucester.
- Bullyhole Bottom, near Gaerllwyd, Monmouthshire.
- Bumbles Green, near Harlow, Essex.
- Bummers Hill, near Hare Street, Hertfordshire.
- Bunny, near Nottingham.
- Burton-le-Coggles, near Grantham.
- Buttock, near Barley, Lancashire.
- Buttock Point, Isle of Bute.
- Cackle Street, near Hastings, Sussex.
- California, Birmingham (also one in Norfolk).
- Cambo, near Morpeth, Northumberland.
- Cargo Fleet, Middlesborough.
- Catbrain, near Cribb's Causeway, north of Bristol.
- Catchem's Corner, near Coventry.
- Chaldron Herring, near Lulworth Cove.
- Chapel en le Frith, near Buxton, Derbyshire.
- Chignall Smeally, near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Chipping Sodbury, east of Bristol.
- Chemistry, near Whitchurch, Shropshire.
- Chequerbent, Bolton.
- Cheslyn Hay, near Cannock, Staffordshire.
- Chew Magna, near Bristol.
- Chewton Mendip, near Wells, Somerset.
- Christmas Common, near Watlington, Oxfordshire.
- Chuckery, Walsall.
- Clapton-in-Gordano, near Portishead, Somerset.
- Clatter, west of Newtown, Powys.
- Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire.
- Clenchwarton, near King's Lynn, Norfolk.
- Clock Face, near St. Helen's, Merseyside.
- Cocking Causeway, near Midhurst, Sussex.
- Cocklick End, near Slaidburn, Lancashire.
- Cockup Bottom, near Bassenthwaite, Cumbria.
- Coffinswell, near Torquay, Devon.
- Cold Blow, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
- Compton Dando, near Bath.
- Compton Pauncefoot, near Yeovil.
- Constable Lee, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire.
- Cop Street, near Sandwich, Kent.
- Court Henry, near Carmarthen.
- Cowslip Green, near Congresbury, Somerset.
- Crackpot, Swaledale, North Yorkshire.
- Crank, near St. Helens, Merseyside.
- Crapham Down, near Beachy Head, East Sussex.
- Crapstone, near Plymouth, Devon.
- Cricket St Thomas, near Chard, Somerset.
- Cridling Stubbs, near Knottingley, Yorkshire.
- Crimble, near Rochdale.
- Cropwell Bishop, near Nottingham (also Cropwell Butler).
- Crouch End, North London.
- Cuckoo's Knob, near Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire.
- Cuckoo's Nest, near Chester.
- Curry Rivel, near Taunton, Somerset.
- Dancing Dicks, near Hatfield Peverel, Essex.
- Dead Cow Point, Lundy Island.
- Dent, near Sedbergh, North Yorkshire.
- Dial Post, near Worthing, Sussex.
- Dippertown, near Launceston.
- Dirt Pot, Allendale, Northumberland.
- Dirty Gutter, near Leek, Staffordshire.
- Dog Village, near Exeter.
- Donkey Town, near Camberley, Surrey.
- Dove Holes, near Buxton, Derbyshire.
- Diggle, east of Oldham, Greater Manchester.
- Droop, near Dorchester.
- Dukinfield, Tameside, Greater Manchester.
- Dull, near Pitlochry.
- Dungy Head, near West Lulworth, Dorset.
- Duntisbourne Leer, near Cirencester.
- Durdle Door, near West Lulworth, Dorset.
- Easter Kinkell, near Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty.
- Elephant and Castle, South London.
- Eccup, north of Leeds.
- Esh Winning, near Durham.
- Ferwig, Cardigan.
- Farrington Gurney, near Radstock, Somerset.
- Fazakerley, Liverpool.
- Fingringhoe, near Colchester, Essex.
- Flash, near Buxton, Derbyshire. Claims to be the highest village in England.
- Fogo, near Coldstream in the Borders.
- Four Forks, near Bridgwater, Somerset.
- Frenchbeer, on Dartmoor.
- Friendly, near Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire.
- Friskney Eaudike, near Boston.
- Football Hole, near Embleton, Northumberland.
- Fortnighty, near Nairn, Highland.
- Four Throws, near Sandhurst, Kent.
- Funzie, Fetlar, Shetland.
- Gamlingay Cinques, near Cambridge.
- Gay Street, near Pulborough, Sussex.
- Germansweek, near Launceston.
- George Nympton, near Barnstaple.
- Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire.
- Glossop, Derbyshire. What a nice word.
- Gog Magog Hills, near Cambridge.
- Golden Balls, near Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire.
- Goldfinch Bottom, near Newbury, Berkshire.
- Good Easter, near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Goole, East Yorkshire. (Just for the sound of it.)
- Goonbell, near Redruth, Cornwall.
- Goosnargh, north of Preston.
- Great Cockup, (mountain) near Bassenthwaite, Cumbria.
- Great Snoring, near Walsingham, Norfolk.
- Green Street Green, near Farnborough.
- Grey Green, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
- Grike, near Egremont, Cumbria.
- Grimness, on South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
- Grimpo, near Oswestry, Shropshire.
- Grotton, Oldham.
- Grubb Street, near Dartford, Kent.
- Grumbla, near Lands End.
- Gussage St. Michael, near Blandford Forum, Dorset.
- Gweek, near Helston, Cornwall.
- Halfpenny, near Kendal, Cumbria.
- Hamsterley, near Bishop Auckland (also Consett) Durham.
- Haselbury Plucknett, near Yeovil.
- Haseley Knob, near Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
- Heanton Punchardon, near Barnstaple. (Might cause this page to be
rejected by certain software!)
- Hearts Delight, near Sittingbourne, Kent.
- Heckmondwike, east of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
- Heglibister, on the Mainland of Shetland.
- Helions Bumpstead, near Saffron Walden.
- Hen Poo, near Duns, west of Berwick-upon-Tweed. (name of lake)
- Henlade, near Taunton. It must be an egg, as the next village is called Ham.
- Hinton Blewett, between Bath and Weston super Mare.
- Hinton-in-the-Hedges, near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
- Hole in the Wall, near Ross-on-Wye.
- Honeystreet, near Devizes, Wiltshire.
- Honey Tye, near Colchester, Essex.
- Hopton Wafers, east of Ludlow.
- Horrabridge, near Plymouth, Devon.
- 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.
- Jack-in-the-Green, near Exeter, Devon.
- Jingle Street, near Monmouth, Monmouthshire.
- Jump, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
- Kemeys Commander, near Pontypool, Gwent.
- Kettlesing Bottom, west of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
- Kingston Bagpuize, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
- Killiecrankie, near Pitlochry.
- Kirkby Overblow, south of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
- Kittybrewster, Aberdeen.
- Knockdown, near Malmsbury, Wiltshire.
- Land of Nod, near Grayshott, Hampshire.
- Landshipping, near Pembroke. (Rival to Manchester Ship Canal?)
- Layer-de-la-Haye, near Colchester, Essex.
- 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?).
- Lickey End, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
- Lickham Bottom, near Hemyock, Devon.
- Loggerheads, between Stoke and Shrewsbury (also near Mold).
- London Apprentice, near St. Austell, Cornwall.
- Long Load, near Yeovil.
- Looe, near Liskeard, Cornwall.
- Loose, near Maidstone, Kent. (The place to find Loose women?)
- Loose Bottom, near Falmer, East Sussex.
- Lost, near Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.
- Loudwater, near High Wycombe.
- Lower Slaughter, near Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire.
- Lower Peover, near Knutsford, Cheshire.
- Lumps of Garryhorn, near Carsphairn, Dumfries and Galloway.
- Mabe Burnthouse, Falmouth, Cornwall.
- Mankinholes, near Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
- Mappowder, near Dorchester.
- Mavis Enderby, near Horncastle, Lincolnshire.
- Mavis Grind, on the Mainland of Shetland.
- Melbury Bubb, near Yeovil.
- Messing, near Colchester, Essex.
- Minchinhampton, near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
- Minges, near Ware, Hertfordshire.
- Moon's Moat, near Redditch, Worcestershire.
- Mousehole, near Penzance, Cornwall.
- Mow Cop, near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire.
- Much Wenlock, near Telford, Shropshire.
- Mucking, near Tilbury, Essex.
- Mudford Sock, near Yeovil.
- Muggleswick, near Consett, Durham.
- Mumbles, Swansea.
- Nanpantan, near Loughborough, Leicestershire.
- Nasty, near Stevenage. (Nasty Women's Institute?)
- Nately Scures, near Basingstoke, Hampshire.
- Nempnett Thrubwell, between Bath and Weston super Mare.
- Netherthong, near Huddersfield.
- Nether Wallop, near Andover.
- New Invention, near Walsall, W. Midlands. (also in Shropshire)
- Noah's Ark, near Sevenoaks, Kent.
- Nobottle, near Northampton.
- No Man's Land, near Wadebridge, Cornwall (also one near Looe).
- Nup End, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
- Odd Down, south of Bath.
- Oh Me Edge, near Byreness, Northumberland.
- Old Wives Lees, near Canterbury.
- Once Brewed, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland.
- Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn.
- Peasedown St John, near Bath.
- Pease Pottage, near Crawley, West Sussex.
- Pett Bottom, near Canterbury, Kent.
- Piddlehinton, near Dorchester.
- Pink Green, near Redditch, Worcestershire.
- Pity Me, north of Durham.
- Pisser Clough, near Widdop, West Yorkshire.
- Pleck, Walsall (also one in Dorset).
- Plucks Gutter, near Ramsgate, Kent.
- Plush, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Polperro, near Liskeard, Cornwall.
- Polyphant, near Launceston.
- Potto, south of Stockton-on-Tees.
- Pratt's Bottom, near Farnborough.
- Praze-an-Beeble, near Cambourne, Cornwall.
- Prickwillow, near Ely, Cambridgeshire.
- Quaking Houses, near Stanley, Durham.
- Quadring Eaudike, near Spalding, Lincolnshire.
- Quebec, near Durham.
- Queen Camel, near Yeovil, Somerset.
- Ramsbottom, north of Bury, Greater Manchester.
- Ramsey Forty Foot, near March, Cambridgeshire.
- Ratcliffe in the Wreake, north of Leicester.
- Raw, near Whitby. (naked or half-baked?)
- Red Roses, near Carmarthen.
- Rest and Be Thankful, Argyll and Bute.
- Retire, near Bodmin, Cornwall.
- Rotten Bottom, Tweeddale, Borders.
- Rows of Trees, near Wilmslow, Cheshire.
- Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire.
- Ryme Intrinseca, near Yeovil.
- Sandy Balls, near Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
- Scagglethorpe, near Malton, North Yorkshire.
- Scapegoat Hill, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
- Scratchy Bottom, near Durdle Door, Dorset.
- Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Such a lovely name.
- Seaton Sluice, near Blyth, Northumberland.
- Seething, near Norwich. Does it make you cross?
- Send, near Woking, Surrey.
- Shagg, near East Lulworth, Dorset.
- Sheepy Parva, near Nuneaton.
- Shellow Bowells, near Chelmsford, Essex.
- Shilbottle, near Alnwick, Northumberland.
- Shitlington Crags, near Wark, Northumberland.
- Shitterton, near Bere Regis, Dorset.
- Sinfin, near Derby.
- Six Mile Bottom, near Cambridge.
- Sixpenny Handley, near Blandford Forum.
- Slack Bottom, near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
- Slaggyford, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland.
- Slattocks, near Rochdale.
- Snig's End, near Gloucester.
- Solomon's Tump, west of Gloucester.
- Splott, Cardiff.
- Spunkie, near Lugton, Ayrshire
- Square and Compass, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.
- Steeple Bumpstead, near Haverhill, Essex.
- Stepaside, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
- Sticker, near St. Austell, Cornwall.
- Stiff Street, near Sittingbourne, Kent.
- Stublick Bog, near Haydon Bridge, Northumberland.
- Swan Bottom, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire.
- Sweet Appletree, near Market Drayton, Shropshire.
- The Bastard, (hill) near Campbelltown, Kintyre.
- The Bog, south west of Shrewsbury.
- The Bratch, near Wolverhampton.
- The Four Alls, near Market Drayton, Shropshire.
- Throcking, near Stevenage.
- Thrupp, near Stroud (also one near Oxford)
- Thwing, near Bridlington.
- Tincleton, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Tiltups End, near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
- Titaboutie, near Tarland, Aberdeenshire.
- Titty Ho, Raunds, Northamptonshire.
- Toller Porcorum, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Tomtit's Bottom, near Cowley, south of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
- Tongue of Gangsta, Mainland of Orkney.
- Trull, near Taunton, Somerset.
- Trumpet, near Ledbury, Herefordshire.
- Trunch, near Cromer, Norfolk.
- Turdees, near Chapelhall, North Lanarkshire.
- Turner's Puddle, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Twatt, on the Mainland of Orkney.
- Twelveheads, near Truro, Cornwall.
- Twenty, near Spalding, Lincolnshire.
- Twerton, Bath.
- Ugglebarnby, near Whitby, North Yorkshire.
- Ugley, near Bishop's Stortford. (Home of the Ugley Women's Institute?)
- Ulceby Skitter, near Immingham, Lincolnshire.
- Upend, near Newmarket.
- Upperup, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
- Upper Upham, near Swindon, Wiltshire.
- Up Sydling, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Upton Snodsbury near Worcester (Borsetshire)
- Vobster, near Frome, Somerset.
- Warninglid, near Horsham, West Sussex.
- Washaway, near Bodmin, Cornwall.
- Wasps Nest, near Lincoln.
- Wedding Hall Fold, near Lothersdale, North Yorkshire.
- Wellow, near Bath, Somerset (also on the Isle of Wight)
- Wendens Ambo, near Saffron Walden.
- Wendy, near Cambridge.
- Weobley Marsh, near Hereford.
- Wergs, Wolverhampton.
- Westley Waterless, near Cambridge.
- Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire.
- Westonzoyland, near Bridgewater, Somerset.
- Westward Ho!, Devon. The place with the pling!
- Wetwang, near Bridlington.
- Wheelbarrow Town, near Folkestone, Kent.
- Whelpo, near Wigton, Cumbria.
- Wide Open, north of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Wig Wig, near Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
- Wigan, Greater Manchester. How could it escape?
- Wigglesworth, near Settle, North Yorkshire.
- Wildboarclough, near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
- Wincle, near Macclesfield.
- Winfrith Newburgh, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Winterborne Came, near Dorchester, Dorset.
- Withiel Florey, West Somerset.
- Wittering, near Peterborough. (No - there couldn't be a Wittering
Women's Institute, could there?)
- Womenswold, south-east of Canterbury, Kent.
- World's End, west of Birmingham, also near Newbury.
- Wormiehills, on the coast, east of Dundee.
- Wrangle, near Boston, west of the Wash.
- Wrangway, near Wellington, Somerset.
- Wyke Champflower, near Castle Cary, Somerset.
- Wyre Piddle, near Pershore, Worcestershire.
- Yaddlethorpe, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
- Yardley Gobion, near Towcester, Northamptonshire.
- Yarkhill, east of Hereford.
- Yarrow Feus, south of Edinburgh.
- Yazor, near Hereford.
- Yealand Redmayne, near Carnforth, Lancashire.
- 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. An earlier, shorter version of it appeared on another web site of mine. Other combinations of names exist on other sites, but if you see this exact list somewhere else it has been copied from here! (One name in this list has been made up, as a trap for anyone thinking of copying it!)