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:
The Untourists says
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.
Harold Armitage says
There are lots of places named Piddle. Including a river
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piddle
Tom Lacey-Johnson says
You forgot lower dicker
Tom Lacey-Johnson says
Also there is a wyre puddle, Pershore.
dan says
its actually wyre piddle. ive been there, near to it is tiddle widdle island
Tyler says
I’ve been to a place near Lyme Regis
Called shitterton
Norm in Ngunnawal country says
There is the River Piddle in Dorset, with the villages of Piddlehinton, and Piddletrenthide
Town there is Puddletown.
Snowy says
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 !
oliver heap says
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.
N says
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
chris byrne says
My favourite is the town of Cumbum in India
Mick Poulton says
There’s a village in Somerset call Nempnett Thrubwell immortalised in song by The Wurzels and jazz man Acker Bilk.
Dave S says
There’s a village close to the M42, A38 junction in Worcestershire called Lickey End!
Bobby Sheen says
There is a place south east of Perranporth, Cornwall called “Cocks”.
Colin T says
Cold Blow is missing which is in SW Wales close to Narberth.
Lesley says
Water ma trout in Cornwall
David Orme says
There’s a Devonshire village called ‘Chip Shop’. Sadly, there isn’t a chippy there.
rhianna jordan says
Mousehole, Cornwall.
C says
Unthank in Yorkshire
Harold Armitage says
For the history buffs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
The PC brigade strikes again!
Katharine Brown says
What about – Shatton – Derbyshire.
Ian A says
How about “Willy Knott”, a couple of miles north-east of Great Cockup, Cumbria?
Peter says
I also enjoy names that conjure awesome characters.
Locally we have ‘Duntisborne Leer’, which makes me think of a lanky, cadaverous Dickensian lawyer.
MadgetheRadge says
Shafton, small village between south and west yorkshire
Gary B says
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.
Gordon Dudgeon says
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.
David Norwood says
There is a place in Staffordshire called Titensor
What about Wooton Wawen in Warwickshire
Michelle preece says
I live at Tom Tits Bottom in cockleford in the Cotswolds
Barbara Nichols says
How about Lower Peover in Cheshire
EJ Buckley says
Windy Bottom near Lantern Pike hill, Derbyshire. UK
John says
Boggle hole, North Yorkshire coast
John Pinder says
Hotley Bottom in Buckinghamshire
John Pinder says
Try also ‘Lord Hereford’s Knob’, which some maps call ‘The Tumpa’. It is in the Black Mountains in south Wales.