Quaint/cute British place names

[Hypersmurf]

Some real place names from the UK

There was a list recently...

-Hyp.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

"Foxshire on Moss" is weird, because a shire is a largeish area. It's usually only towns which are named after their proximity to a river - "Foxton on Moss", frex.

 

[Jonny Nexus]

"Foxshire on Moss" is weird, because a shire is a largeish area. It's usually only towns which are named after their proximity to a river - "Foxton on Moss", frex.

Yeah, basically a shire is a type of county (i.e. all shires are counties, but not all counties are shires). So as mhacdebhandia says, you wouldn't have "xxxshire on xxx".

And in terms of what english counties are, they are mostly like US counties, but I believe a bit bigger (we think of them more in the way that Americans think of states). It's much more a regional identity, rather than the local town and its surroundings.

I found this link giving details of UK counties.

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/counties.htm

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

How about Foxwold on Moss?

 

[mhensley]

Click on the town name button in my name generator for very England-like town names-

http://www.bargainstrike.com/mw/tools/namegen.php

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Foxwold, Foxbridge, Foxhill, Foxburne, Foxlea, Foxgrove, Foxham, Foxby, Foxford, Foxheath, Foxville, Foxthorpe, Foxvale, Foxdale, Foxwell, Foxmont, Foxwood, Foxport, Foxmouth, Foxglen, Foxside, Foxmore, Foxcombe, Foxdon, Foxridge, Foxminster, Foxborough . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_England

 

[nerfherder]

A couple of miles from me are the following places:

*) Pity Me (originally from the Norman French Petit Mer for the small lake)

*) No Place (I've no idea how this name came about!)

Cheers,
Liam

 

[NewJeffCTHome]

I always liked Upper and Lower Slaughter.

My town in Connecticut has streets named either Upper & Lower Butcher or Middle & Lower Butcher. Of course, a lot of New England names are from England - I grew up in a town name Cromwell.

 

[tetsujin28]

My own personal fave is from an episode of The Avengers: Little Storping on the Swuff

 

[nerfherder]

Today's Sunday Times has an article on British Place Names.

Some of their favourites were:

Three Cocks
Ho
Twatt
Scratchy Bottom
Happy Bottom
North Piddle
Lickey End
Willey
Nether Wallop
Sandy Balls

These are all genuine names (and I've provided links to multimap.com where I could find them).

Cheers,
Liam