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Weird, Silly, Odd & Rude Place Names In The UK

December 11, 2016 33 Comments

Weird, Silly, Odd & Rude Place Names In The UK

Source: FamilyBreakFinder.co.uk

From Giggleswick to Dull the UK has many weird, silly, odd and rude place names, which you can see in the map above.

The full list of places can be found below:

  • Ae
  • Barton in the Beans
  • Beer
  • Besses o’ th’ Barn
  • Blubberhouses
  • Brawl
  • Botusfleming
  • Brokenwind
  • Brown Willy
  • Bunny
  • Catbrain
  • Chemistry
  • Crackpot
  • Crapstone
  • Curry Mallet
  • Donkey Town
  • Droop
  • Dull
  • Fattiehead
  • Giggleswick
  • Great Snoring
  • Horrid Hill
  • Jump
  • Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
  • Lost
  • Loose Bottom
  • Matching Tye
  • Marsh Gibbon
  • Mumbles
  • Nasty
  • New Invention
  • Nether Wallop
  • Pity Me
  • Plwmp
  • Rest and be Thankful
  • Spunkie
  • Stranagalwilly
  • Upton Snodsbury
  • Wetwang
  • Wide Open
  • Wig Wig

While the map above does a decent job of showing some of the weird and silly place names you can find in the UK, there are far, far more including:

  • Balls Cross
  • Battledykes
  • Bell End
  • Bitchfield
  • Boggy Bottom
  • Butt Hole Road
  • Clitheroe
  • Cockermouth
  • Cockfosters
  • Cocks
  • Crotch Crescent
  • Dicks Mount
  • Ding Dong
  • Diss
  • Fanny Barks
  • Fingringhoe
  • Greensplat
  • Ha-Ha Road
  • Looe
  • Minge Lane
  • Mudchute
  • No Place
  • Nob End
  • Nomansland
  • Once Brewed/Twice Brewed
  • Penistone
  • Playing Place
  • Pratt’s Bottom
  • Rotten End
  • Sandy Balls
  • Scratchy Bottom
  • Shitterton
  • Sheepy Magna
  • Sluts Hole Lane
  • Tiddlywink
  • Tokers Green
  • Triangle
  • Twatt
  • Ugley
  • Upper Dicker
  • Upper Slaughter
  • Upperthong
  • Westward Ho!
  • Windy Nook

Yes these are all real places that somewhere in the UK! And better yet, this is only a small selection, for more on weird and rude place names have a look at the following books:

  • Rude Britain: The 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain
  • Hoo, Howe, Ware, Wye and Wem – weird, wonderful and wacky British place names
  • Rude World: 100 Rudest Place Names in the World by Rob Bailey
  • The Collection Of Weird: Place Names

Do you have a favourite rude, silly or odd place name? Then tell us in the comments section below. Also if you enjoyed this map, please help us by sharing it with a friend:

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Comments

  1. The Untourists says

    December 14, 2016 at 2:39 pm

    Awesome. There is a place near Pune, in India, which is called Bhosari. It’s also a slang for ‘cunt’. Can’t imagine people owning up to this place as where they come from.

    Reply
    • Harold Armitage says

      August 7, 2019 at 9:37 am

      There are lots of places named Piddle. Including a river
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piddle

      Reply
    • Tom Lacey-Johnson says

      August 12, 2020 at 8:36 pm

      You forgot lower dicker

      Reply
    • Tom Lacey-Johnson says

      August 12, 2020 at 8:41 pm

      Also there is a wyre puddle, Pershore.

      Reply
      • dan says

        February 2, 2021 at 12:10 pm

        its actually wyre piddle. ive been there, near to it is tiddle widdle island

        Reply
    • Tyler says

      August 17, 2020 at 8:32 am

      I’ve been to a place near Lyme Regis
      Called shitterton

      Reply
  2. Norm in Ngunnawal country says

    September 30, 2017 at 10:43 am

    There is the River Piddle in Dorset, with the villages of Piddlehinton, and Piddletrenthide
    Town there is Puddletown.

    Reply
    • Snowy says

      October 10, 2021 at 12:38 am

      Other places nearby are the Puddles, they were once all Piddle but the names were changed to avoid embarrassing Queen Victoria when her Royal Train passed through and for some reason they were never changed back again !

      Reply
  3. oliver heap says

    January 25, 2018 at 12:54 pm

    Clock Face is a village and area of St. Helens, England, 5.6 km (3.5 mi) south of the town centre. It is a ward within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens and forms part of the parish of Bold. Also historically a part of Lancashire, the village and area is so named because of a large clock face that adorned the Inn. The name was also adopted by a colliery in the area. The Clock Face public house, although not the original building, is built close to the original location and maintains the naming tradition.

    Reply
  4. N says

    October 30, 2018 at 6:53 pm

    Anybody else notice that rest and be thankful is in the wrong place as it not wear the star is placed its beyond the top of loch fyne

    Reply
  5. chris byrne says

    November 12, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    My favourite is the town of Cumbum in India

    Reply
  6. Mick Poulton says

    December 24, 2018 at 4:37 pm

    There’s a village in Somerset call Nempnett Thrubwell immortalised in song by The Wurzels and jazz man Acker Bilk.

    Reply
  7. Dave S says

    March 14, 2019 at 3:02 pm

    There’s a village close to the M42, A38 junction in Worcestershire called Lickey End!

    Reply
  8. Bobby Sheen says

    March 28, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    There is a place south east of Perranporth, Cornwall called “Cocks”.

    Reply
  9. Colin T says

    March 31, 2019 at 9:26 am

    Cold Blow is missing which is in SW Wales close to Narberth.

    Reply
  10. Lesley says

    April 5, 2019 at 8:42 pm

    Water ma trout in Cornwall

    Reply
  11. David Orme says

    April 25, 2019 at 7:29 pm

    There’s a Devonshire village called ‘Chip Shop’. Sadly, there isn’t a chippy there.

    Reply
  12. rhianna jordan says

    June 15, 2019 at 6:33 am

    Mousehole, Cornwall.

    Reply
  13. C says

    June 18, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    Unthank in Yorkshire

    Reply
  14. Harold Armitage says

    August 7, 2019 at 9:40 am

    For the history buffs
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

    The PC brigade strikes again!

    Reply
  15. Katharine Brown says

    October 24, 2019 at 9:44 pm

    What about – Shatton – Derbyshire.

    Reply
  16. Ian A says

    January 12, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    How about “Willy Knott”, a couple of miles north-east of Great Cockup, Cumbria?

    Reply
  17. Peter says

    January 18, 2020 at 9:28 am

    I also enjoy names that conjure awesome characters.

    Locally we have ‘Duntisborne Leer’, which makes me think of a lanky, cadaverous Dickensian lawyer.

    Reply
  18. MadgetheRadge says

    January 28, 2020 at 11:11 am

    Shafton, small village between south and west yorkshire

    Reply
  19. Gary B says

    June 15, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    A few miles south of Pratts Bottom is a little place called Badgers Mount. True but I do refuse to do the old joke, does anyone know the best way to Oldham.

    Reply
  20. Gordon Dudgeon says

    August 15, 2020 at 3:09 pm

    Cats Hole. It is one of the many sink holes in the Marble Arch Geo Park. Co.Fermanagh. been at it a few times, but never ventured down it.

    Reply
  21. David Norwood says

    September 26, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    There is a place in Staffordshire called Titensor
    What about Wooton Wawen in Warwickshire

    Reply
  22. Michelle preece says

    November 11, 2020 at 6:26 am

    I live at Tom Tits Bottom in cockleford in the Cotswolds

    Reply
  23. Barbara Nichols says

    November 12, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    How about Lower Peover in Cheshire

    Reply
  24. EJ Buckley says

    November 14, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    Windy Bottom near Lantern Pike hill, Derbyshire. UK

    Reply
  25. John says

    September 10, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    Boggle hole, North Yorkshire coast

    Reply
  26. John Pinder says

    October 22, 2022 at 10:49 pm

    Hotley Bottom in Buckinghamshire

    Reply
  27. John Pinder says

    October 22, 2022 at 11:10 pm

    Try also ‘Lord Hereford’s Knob’, which some maps call ‘The Tumpa’. It is in the Black Mountains in south Wales.

    Reply

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