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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    Ashby Cum Fenby is the next village to mine
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,724
    Addickted said:

    Shingaycum Wendy in Bucks

    I've already said that and it's in Cambridgeshire.
  • Half Nelson
    Half Nelson Posts: 408
    Inner Ting Tong, near Budleigh Salterton, Devon.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,036
    Indian Queens.

    Looe.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,957
    I like the small town in Surrey called Friday Street immortalised by song of the same name by Sir Paul Weller.
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    Shepshed fc play at butt hole lane
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    There really is an Idle working men's club, near Bradford I think.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Village not far from me called Wetwang. Named after an incontinent earl apparently. Or maybe not.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,040
    Always remember the inner sleeve notes to Paul Young's No Parlez album in the 80s. Featured loads of photos of him and the group as they made the album. One was of a place they went through and had the caption of "have you ever..."


    Shitterton (in Dorset I believe).
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    In Malaysia, there is Klang, which might ring bell with some of you. And, of course, Kuching - the sound of an old fashioned till closing.
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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    Half Nelson said:

    Inner Ting Tong, near Budleigh Salterton, Devon.

    Budleigh Salterton. I like that - sounds like a TV antiques expert
  • dogpat65
    dogpat65 Posts: 149
    Everyone's favourite in donegal is the wonderful village of Muff just on the coast offers some brilliant water sports for the adventurous enthusiast.

    http://www.muffdivingclub.ie
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited August 2015
    There is a village just outside Bishops Stortford called Ugley, which just so happens to have a woman's institute.

    Which obviously means the unfortunate members to belong to ....The Ugley womans institute.
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    Upper Moutere...I heard it referenced in a movie one day in the same way one might use Timbuktu but it is just up the road from where i grew up for god's sake (Lower Moutere is closer)
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    Whenever i hear people talk about Charlston i hear Charlton with a lisp
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,617
    Upper and Lower Slaughter.
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    Penistone always makes my eyes water
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,617
    Dildo.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,914
    The first line of my previous addres was ' 1 Blue Ball '
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    Cust - I hear banjos and see dessert
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  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Dildo.

    That would also make my eyes water
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Lincsaddick said:

    two villages just north of Lincoln: Toft Next Newton and Newton By Toft .. a bit like Patrick fits Michael and Michael fits etc. etc. .. there is another place on a small canal in the same area named Brandy Wharf .. a local comedian has expertly changed all the local road signs to Randy Dwarf

    Reminds of when I worked in Manchester and the signs for Canal Street had their first letters removed. Quite appropriate for the area ;-)
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    edited August 2015
    Last one - Slough - it evokes a bloated corpse of a pig in some sort of fetid Dickensian sump
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    shine166 said:

    The first line of my previous addres was ' 1 Blue Ball '

    Rather that than 'Blackball' mate (another NZ one)
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Village not far from me called Wetwang. Named after an incontinent earl apparently. Or maybe not.

    You beat me to it. Always have a giggle as we pass through Wetwang whenever we go to Filey.
  • MeebaumAzanitch
    MeebaumAzanitch Posts: 605
    I always laughed at a sign the other side of Blackwall Tunnel that said 'Bow Locks this way'.
  • Yorkshireaddick
    Yorkshireaddick Posts: 511
    edited August 2015
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Village not far from me called Wetwang. Named after an incontinent earl apparently. Or maybe not.

    Are you in Beverley AUN?
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Yorkshireaddick said:

    AddickUpNorth said:

    Village not far from me called Wetwang. Named after an incontinent earl apparently. Or maybe not.

    Are you in Beverley AUN?
    Ask Bev and she'll tell ya!
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    Addickted2U said:

    AddickUpNorth said:

    Village not far from me called Wetwang. Named after an incontinent earl apparently. Or maybe not.

    You beat me to it. Always have a giggle as we pass through Wetwang whenever we go to Filey.
    Always seems to feature on Look North weather - or is that them trying to seem ironic or tongue in cheek?
  • Bostonaddick
    Bostonaddick Posts: 812
    Intercourse, Pennsylvania which is just down the road from blue ball, Pennsylvania

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