Name the county with the maddest place names

[Detroit City]

I bet the local god squad aint so keen on that

probalby not but what can they do? its been around for almost 200 yrs. See link below for add'l info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The last four on this list are very strong contenders

I love the last one

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The last four on this list are very strong contenders

and I missed one off there because someone already mentioned it and what found it would be to pronounce when pissed

Huish Episcopi

 

[geminisnake]

Possibly strange local ones(but I'm used to them)
Froickheim
Panbride
Pitmuies
Dykehead
Murroes
Meigle

Like I say I'm used to them so dunno if they are strange or not.

Wish we had sound so I could hear some of you trying to pronounce these names

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Possibly strange local ones(but I'm used to them)
Froickheim
Panbride
Pitmuies
Dykehead
Murroes
Meigle

Like I say I'm used to them so dunno if they are strange or not.

Wish we had sound so I could hear some of you trying to pronounce these names

Please tell me Dykehead is pronounced Dickhead

 

[geminisnake]

No, dyke as in Dutch wall

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No, dyke as in Dutch wall

Oh

So how are the rest pronounced?

 

[geminisnake]

It's hard to describe some of them tbh. Froickheim is kinda like Freekom.

 

[weepiper]

Friockheim is that rare thing, a Gaelic-Norse hybrid name...

 

[weepiper]

The last four on this list are very strong contenders

Compton Pauncefoot is fantastic

OK, may I also offer up for consideration:

Meikle Harelaw
Crumrig
Harcarse
Sucklawridge
Wilyrigg Strips
Nottylees
Upsettlington
Hoardweel
Horseupcleugh Rig

 

[northernhord]

Compton Pauncefoot is fantastic

OK, may I also offer up for consideration:

Meikle Harelaw
Crumrig
Harcarse
Sucklawridge
Wilyrigg Strips
Nottylees
Upsettlington
Hoardweel
Horseupcleugh Rig

Crikey these get better

 

[weepiper]

Please tell me Dykehead is pronounced Dickhead

It's a different Dykehead, but 'Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band' is usually referred to as 'shits and dickheeds'.

 

[JTG]

Somerset pisses all over every other county. FACT.

Cheddon Fitzpaine
Norton Fitzwarren
Kingsbury Episcopi
Shepton Mallet
Midsomer Norton
Gurney Slade
Farrington Gurney
Nempnett Thrubwell
Temple Cloud
Chew Magna

etc etc etc

 

[RubyToogood]

Upsettlington

That's the best place name ever.

 

[WouldBe]

i used to drive thru New Zealand on my way to work

I came across that one foggy night and thought I'd taken a wrong turn somewhere.

 

[Roadkill]

I'd nominate Dorset, with its various towns with 'Piddle' and 'Puddle' somewhere in the names.

 

[Roadkill]

I nominate Leicestershire, i used to go out with this women from Market Harborough yearz ago, Market Harborough being a fairly normal name for a town, then I discoved Scraptoft, Sibbertoft and a fleet of places with by at the end such as Blaby, tugby, rugby, oadby, oh and how could I forget Horninghold.

Name that County

I grew up near Market Harborough, in a village with the rather boring name of Clipston - about three miles from where ChrisFilter lived, in fact.

 

[JTG]

I'd nominate Dorset, with its various towns with 'Piddle' and 'Puddle' somewhere in the names.

Reminds me - I stayed one night in Wyre Piddle in Worcestershire

All other Worcestershire place names are shite though.

 

[Rohen]

Westward Ho!

the only place name with an exclamation mark

 

[northernhord]

I grew up near Market Harborough, in a village with the rather boring name of Clipston - about three miles from where ChrisFilter lived, in fact.

Quite nice round apart from the flatness

 

[northernhord]

I grew up near Market Harborough, in a village with the rather boring name of Clipston - about three miles from where ChrisFilter lived, in fact.

dp

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Somerset pisses all over every other county. FACT.

Cheddon Fitzpaine
Norton Fitzwarren
Kingsbury Episcopi
Shepton Mallet
Midsomer Norton
Gurney Slade
Farrington Gurney
Nempnett Thrubwell
Temple Cloud
Chew Magna

etc etc etc

Not a placename but I've just come across a Tryphosa Trebilcock in my family tree

 

[Orang Utan]

Morten Harket

 

[Pie 1]

In Switzerland we've got a Cunter, a Töss & a Wankdorf

 

[cyberfairy]

Would agree with Somerset and Devon. Know sod all about the place but after looking at Ancestry, I've come across some funny names.

If you want to go international, I'll nominate Pitcairn Island though

Nearly moved to a house in Somerset that was in Scumbrum Lane, High Littleton

 

[JTG]

Not a placename but I've just come across a Tryphosa Trebilcock in my family tree

You're part Cornish then, that's a Cornish surname that is

 

[ngeru]

In Switzerland we've got a Cunter, a Töss & a Wankdorf

Actually that reminds me... When on a school tour of Germany years ago we passed thru a place in Bavaria called Wank!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You're part Cornish then, that's a Cornish surname that is

Nah, not blood line.

Lots of blood line relatives from Somerset and Devon though, that I've so far managed to trace back to around 1800s. The Trebilcock is the 1st Cornish one I've stumbled upon

 

[Roadkill]

I liked it round that area when I visited apart from the lack of Hills

I've never thought of Leicestershire as particularly flat, but perhaps that's 'cos we moved from there to East Yorkshire, where the highest hill for 20 miles was the railway embankment in Hull!

 

[ramjamclub]

wonder who lives here

Cocksdorp saw this on signpost on Texel island, Holland
dorp = village