Give an example of a strange town name in your area.
Where did the name come from?
Who named the town?
Why do you think it is strange?
We live near a town called EdCouch (the accent is on the first syllable). I have never seen a town with a last name before. In addition, it is next to another small town and the two are often hyphenated as EdCouch-Elsa.
Are there any towns in your area that have funny names?
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Pronounced Can-a-jo-hairy. The area I live in is rich in Native American history. It is one of the earliest areas of the country to be settled and colonized. Much of the American Revolutionary War took place here. The Iroquois Indian nation heavily populated much of the state. The Mohawk tribe, a part of the Iroquois nation lived here. The name Canajoharie comes from the Mohawk language. It translates to "the pot that washes itself". This comes from a swimming hole located here that is part of the Canajoharie Creek. This swimming hole is quite big maybe 25 feet across and perfectly circular. The turbulence from the creek causes the water in the swimming hole to constantly rotate . Hence the name "the pot that washes itself".
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- I'm staying right now in a Chinese town whose name is pronounced Bite-a-Poo. That unusual enough?
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- Since the UK comprise a very small territory, these (unwittingly rude) towns are all very close to mine:
100 Jeffries Passage, Surrey
99 Prince Albert Court, Surrey
98 Nork Rise, Surrey
97 Brown Willy, Cornwall - Cornwall's highest point! (phwoooor!)
96 Great Tosson, Northumberland
95 Trump Street, London
94 St. Mellons, Cardiff
93 Percy Passage, London
92 Booty Lane, North Yorkshire
91 Nether Wallop, Hampshire
90 Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
89 Mudchute, London
88 Juggs Close, East Sussex
87 Cockermouth Green, Newcastle
86 Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire
85 Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk
84 Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
83 Titlington Mount, Northumberland
82 Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
81 Hooker Road, Norwich
80 Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
79 Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
78 Ugley, Essex
77 Pratts Bottom, Kent
76 Ramsbottom Lane, Greater Manchester
75 Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
74 Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
73 Upper Dicker, East Sussex
72 Swell, Somerset
71 Bladda, Paisley
70 Snatchup, Hertfordshire
69 Spital in the Street, Lincolnshire
68 Shingay *** Wendy, Buckinghamshire
67 Pump Alley, Middlesex
66 Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
65 Long Lover Lane, Halifax
64 East Breast, Inverclyde
63 ***** Mount, Suffolk
62 Staines , Surrey
61 Crapstone, Devon
60 Three Cocks, Powys
59 Feltwell, Norfolk
58 Pant, Shropshire
57 Balls Cross, West Sussex
56 Ogle Close, Merseyside
55 Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
54 North Piddle, Worcestershire
53 Mincing Lane, London
52 Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
51 Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
50 Winkle Street, Southampton
49 Wham Bottom Lane, Lancashire
48 Upperthong, West Yorkshire
47 Tosside, Lancashire
46 The Furry, Cornwall
45 Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
44 Lickers Lane, Merseyside
43 Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
42 Boghead, Ayrshire
41 The Bush, Buckinghamshire
40 Hill o'Many Stanes, Scotland
39 Grope Lane, Shropshire
38 Willey, Warwickshire
37 Happy Bottom, Dorset
36 Feltham Close, Hampshire
35 The Knob, Oxfordshire
34 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
33 Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
32 Crotch Cresent, Oxfordshire
31 Blairmuckhole & Forestdyke road, Lanarkshire
30 Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
29 Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
28 Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
27 Pork Lane, Essex
26 Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
25 Wetwang, East Yorkshire
24 Scratchy Bottom, Dorset
23 Swallow Passage, London
22 Lickey End, Worcestershire
21 Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
20 Spanker Lane, Derbyshire
19 Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
18 Lickfold, West Sussex
17 Dick Court, Lanarkshire
16 Beaver Close, Surrey
15 Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
14 Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
13 Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
12 Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
11 Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire
10 Slag Lane, Merseyside
9 Shitterton, Dorset
8 Back Passage, London
7 Fingringhoe, Essex
6 Muff, Northern Ireland
5 Sandy Balls, Hampshire
4 Twatt, Orkney
3 Bell End, Birmingham
2 Minge Lane, Worcestershire
1 Cocks, Cornwall
---Other British towns that might want to change their names include:
Queen's Colon, Middlesex
Fucknob, Hampshire
Take That's Collective Perineum, Dorset
Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside
Saggy Scrotum Cross ,Kent
Horncastle, Linconshire
Deeping St James ,Lincolnshire
Waddington,Lincolnshire
Three Legged Cross,Dorset
Wool, Dorset
Puddletown,Dorset -- Home of the Puddletown Incontinence Centre and Lying-In-Hospital;
Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester -- Makes the list with the city father's decision to rename it "Ashton under Demi" in light of recent celebrity news;
Cockermouth,Cumbria
Dent,Cumbria
There are similar lists for America, I believe...Source(s):
- Connecticut has some interesting place names. Skipping over Sodom (for obvious reasons), there’s:
1. Headquarters. Up in the backwoods of Litchfield. It’s on all the state maps but, if you go there...there’s nothing, just 2 roads that cross in the woods. But once upon a time it was the staging area for Litchfield County troops in the Civil War. They would organize there and then march down the mountain to the railroad to ship out.
2. Dodgingtown. In Newtown, right on the Bethel border. Back in the olden days, when town lines were not really well established the residents used to scam the town tax collectors there. If the Bethel tax collector showed up they claimed to be in Newtown, if the Newtown collector showed up, they claimed to be in Bethel.
3. Bedlam. Located in the town of Chaplin...probably the lowest key, laidbackest town in the state. - ...which is Cheshire in England, there is a small hamlet near the town of Knutsford called Lower Peover!