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Post by Prue on Dec 27, 2013 3:32:29 GMT
I love 'em. There are some wonderful place names here in Oz, and no doubt many more in the Old Country (that's where all you Old Blokes live ;D ) Anyway, I was reminded of how wonderfully evocative place names can be when I heard a short item on the local radio the other day, saying that because of a bushfire all walking tracks were closed in the "Terrible Hollow / Mount Buggery" area  Let's have yours  |
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Post by scorp on Dec 27, 2013 9:07:02 GMT
Piddle Trenthide seldom fails to amuse... and Elmers End and Trotters Bottom have come in for a certain amount of ribbing.
Some Cornish placenames are mysterious : London Apprentice, Indian Queens, Bugle, Barcelona - and who the hell were St Blazey and St Erney?
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Post by jimshoo on Dec 27, 2013 10:37:38 GMT
I had an auntie who lived at Pratt's Bottom in Kent
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Post by scorp on Dec 27, 2013 21:56:57 GMT
That's another good 'un!
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Post by Prue on Dec 28, 2013 4:59:00 GMT
Those are great There's a little seaside town on the south coast of NSW called Mollymook, which I like just for the sound. |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 28, 2013 9:55:38 GMT
There's a village in Orkney called Twatt (it means a parcel of land in Norse)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2014 10:08:41 GMT
I have often been intrigued by 'There and Back Again Lane' in Bristol, close to my favourite bookshop at the top of Park Street.
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Post by Prue on Jan 2, 2014 11:19:17 GMT
I have often been intrigued by 'There and Back Again Lane' in Bristol, close to my favourite bookshop at the top of Park Street. That's lovely JJ. I came across a wonderful street name a while ago (possibly only cricket fans will appreciate its wonderfulness). In Sunbury, north-west of Melbourne but rapidly becoming just another suburb, there's a group of streets named after cricketers: Bradman Dve, Ponsford Pl, Chappell Ct, Marsh Cr etc. Very appropriate for the Home of The Ashes. Sitting unobtrusively among them is a thoroughfare called "Cover Drive". I laughed and laughed when I noticed it, and blessed both the person who thought of it and the person at the names registry who gave it the official nod. I do love little weirdities like that. |
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Post by scorp on Jan 2, 2014 13:52:18 GMT
I recall reading that in some town or other there was a road with only the Police Station in it, but there was to be new building, and the were going to rename it. The present name: Letsby Avenue...
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Post by Prue on Jan 3, 2014 6:23:03 GMT
;D Love it, scorps.
A couple more from rural Victoria:
Puckapunyal
Yackandandah
Pimpinio
(all pronounced with stress on the third syllable).
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Post by jimshoo on Jan 3, 2014 8:57:25 GMT
There's a Snowy Fielder Waye in Isleworth
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Post by Prue on Jan 3, 2014 9:43:47 GMT
I think I'd like to live in Snowy Fielder Waye, JS btw, how is "Isleworth" pronounced? I'd've thought "Eyels-worth", but I heard a BBC reporter recently pronounce it "issle-worth". Just curious. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 10:28:18 GMT
We have one not so far away called Waterly Bottom
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Post by ARENA on Jan 3, 2014 16:13:24 GMT
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Post by scorp on Jan 3, 2014 16:57:23 GMT
I think I'd like to live in Snowy Fielder Waye, JS btw, how is "Isleworth" pronounced? I'd've thought "Eyels-worth", but I heard a BBC reporter recently pronounce it "issle-worth". Just curious. Eye-z'l-werth... accented on the first syllable. They go in for 'Waye' street names in a big way - no idea why. |
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