Since people like making up names so much...

[Savage Wombat]

I'm looking for place names for a sort of fantasy London.

Ever read Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"? (If you haven't, get your butt to a bookstore and fast!) In it, we found out the real reason for place names like "Knightsbridge" and "Blackfriars" - the names actually reflected the place, although unknown to modern eyes.

Anyway, I'm trying to come up with a bunch of similar names for my own city, and suggestions are welcome.

Names I have so far -

Rookhaven
Ashbyrne
Brideswell
Almsford

 

[Felix]

Don't forget: Oxen-ford => Oxford.

Watership Down (I love this book)
Eastown
Dropping Eaves
Somersburgh
Winterhaven
Crickhollow
Crossing Paths
Shadyshire

 

[Robbert Raets]

making up names

..Brideswell..

Sorry - is that 'bride swell' or 'bride's well'?

Something slightly more fantase-y
Elvehaven
Magelaunch
Hammerdeep
Friar's Fall
Willowire Hill

 

[Mystic_23]

Something that my friend's dad came up with is the twin towns of Silverwood and Sandalwood. I always thought that had a nice ring to it.

Also, I LOVED Neverwhere. Gaiman rocks...he needs to write more books.

 

[Robbert Raets]

Gaiman rocks...

...Especially when you see him up close at a Con or Fest
To bad Terry Pratchett wasn't there this year. That would'a been sweeeeeet!

 

[The Forsaken One]

Everwinter
Lanternhold

blabla, just corrupt existing ones

 

[Maraxle]

From my name generator (found at www.jhanson.com):

Conwood
The Town of Oxshire
The Hamlet of Killwell
New Adsfield
Eastford
Old Umberham
South Morwell
Garway
Gold Crest
Little Lake

 

[Buttercup]

Pynke's Hill
Mage Mews
Scandal Row
Applecart
Goblinblood Abbey
Belltower Street
Stone Spires
Polecat Flats
Fenchurch
Robbers' Graves

 

[hong]

Also, I LOVED Neverwhere. Gaiman rocks...

Now I'm going to have to write up a seagoing adventure set on a notorious navigational hazard called Gaiman Rocks.

 

[hunter1828]

Wainshold
Chandler's Loop
Rhimeford
Coopers Crossing
Smithvale