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Evocative place names

Leroy Ambrose
Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
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Cycling at the weekend, I went through a village with the, frankly, preposterous name of 'Nately Scures'. For some reason, I immediately pictured a minor character in the Harry Potter books. As I was lying awake in bed last night (insomnia is a motherfucker) I thought of two other stupid-sounding place names that conjure up images in my mind: 'Barton Stacey' sounds like a gumshoe in a 50s noir thriller and 'Sutton Scotney' sounds like a 70s West Indian fast bowler terrorising De Oliveira, Cowdrey et. al (you can even imagine Michael Holding saying the name)

Anyone else got any contributions to what, I realise, is a pretty bizarre thread...?
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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Old Wives Lees near Canterbury?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Pity Me

    County Durham.
  • Paddy7
    Paddy7 Posts: 1,663
    Selhurst Park immediately conjures up unwelcome images of sad twats imagining they somehow look intimidating by dressing in black and waving annoying flags whilst trying desperately to create the kind of European football scenes they've seen on tv.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Huish Episcopi

    Somerset. Used to have (may still have) a lovely pub.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    Westward Ho! In North Devon, actually has an exclamation point in the name, sounds like the rallying cry in a civil war book
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    Also badgers mount always makes me think of Wind in the Willows
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    Hemingford Grey - surely an Edwardian actor
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    Lickey End somewhere in Shropshire, I think. Needs no explanation.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,587
    Hole of Horcum in North Yorks.
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,918
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    Cycling at the weekend, I went through a village with the, frankly, preposterous name of 'Nately Scures'. For some reason, I immediately pictured a minor character in the Harry Potter books. As I was lying awake in bed last night (insomnia is a motherfucker) I thought of two other stupid-sounding place names that conjure up images in my mind: 'Barton Stacey' sounds like a gumshoe in a 50s noir thriller and 'Sutton Scotney' sounds like a 70s West Indian fast bowler terrorising De Oliveira, Cowdrey et. al (you can even imagine Michael Holding saying the name)

    Anyone else got any contributions to what, I realise, is a pretty bizarre thread...?

    Bet you rode through Dippenhall just down the road, should have popped in for a cup of tea.
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  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    Tolleshunt D'Arcy - a Mississippi riverboat gambler
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    DaveMehmet said:

    Hole of Horcum in North Yorks.

    only you....

    Boot, Cumbria.
  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    I always think that Tower Hamlets sounds like an Olde England village set in the shadow of a Castle somewhere rural (and Hamletey).
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    So good they named it twice ....

    New York (Lincs)

    Green Street Green
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,724
    There is a little village not far from me called Shingay Cumwendy
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    Fashion capital of Essex - Matching Tye
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
    Fingringhoe in Essex...
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    LenGlover said:

    Huish Episcopi

    Somerset. Used to have (may still have) a lovely pub.

    Sounds like a surgical instrument, Len.
  • Yorkshireaddick
    Yorkshireaddick Posts: 511
    Kettlesing Bottom is a favourite of mine
  • Powell Is Pleasant
    Powell Is Pleasant Posts: 1,443
    Snodland.

    I always imagine it's inhabited by tiny people called 'Snoddles'.
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  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Irlam O'The Heights near Manchester. I knew a guy who lived there.
  • Gammysnr
    Gammysnr Posts: 540
    IdleHans said:

    Lickey End somewhere in Shropshire, I think. Needs no explanation.

    I'm sure Bell End is near Lickey End, Shropshire area. Also there's a place near Hull called Fudgepaker or something like that. Where's my map.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Charlton Kings always gets a cheer from me.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Cockintake in Staffordshire
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Shingaycum Wendy in Bucks
  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    Bevis Marks in Aldgate always sounds like something unpleasant left behind on your underwear
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    cafcdave123 said:

    Cockintake in Staffordshire

    Cockermouth does it for me everytime.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    I regularly drive through a town in Carmarthenshire called Pentre Morgan. I can't imagine how a place name could sound more Welsh. Always say it aloud in an affected Welsh accent.
  • Lower_Westsider
    Lower_Westsider Posts: 215
    You cant beat that nice 'Pratts Bottom'
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    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

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