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I know of a village called Undy.

Pennycomequick..
pennycomequick..

yeah right...

lol

We have the Giggle Gaggle, The Mudd, The Stand,
The Cackturn Le Bangs Road, The Hodge, Hodge
Bottom and I live on Summerbottom Broadbottom and my next door neighbours are Higginbottom.

Pennycomequick even has a post office!!
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Postal%20Service%203.htm
My gran lived in Pennycomequick as a child with her aunt and uncle, who ran a shop!!
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Lol the Higginbottoms of Broadbottom!!!

Okay. You guys have some good ones, I have to admit. We ran into Middle Wallop when visiting Salisbury, where there was a banner strung across the street outside our hotel window for an air show being held there. All I can ever think of is walloping yr middle and rubbing yr head.

But you got nothing on Newfoundland.

http://www.wordplay.com/tourism/folklore/placenames.html

Some of the best.

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Newfoundland has the most unusual collection of place names of any country in the world. The hackneyed manner by which other New World settlers identified their communities and natural landmarks did not appeal to the rugged types who settled here. Early Newfoundlanders were men of imagination and wit who were at their best when leaving names to posterity.

Consider their humorous side. There must have been a twinkle in many an eye when such gems as these were bestowed:

* Jerry's Nose
* Nick's Nose Cove
* Come-by-Chance
* Blow-me-down
* Lushes Bight
* Bumble Bee Bight
* Ha Ha Bay
* Run-by-guess
* Bleak Joke Cove
* Calves Nose
* Nancy Oh
* Little Looping Harbour
* Snake's Bight
* Joe Batt's Arm
* Dildo

(Yes, Dildo.)

The depths of their hardship in times long past caused such place names as:

* Gripe Point
* Bad Bay
* Bleak Island
* Misery Point
* Famine Point
* Wild Bight
* Breakheart Point
* Famish Gut
* Savage Cove
* Dead Man's Bay
* Confusion Bay
* Wreck Cove
* Bareneed
* Empty Basket

Some settlers were contented with their discoveries and their satisfaction is reflected in:

* Heart's Desire
* Heart's Content
* Heart's Delight
* Safe Harbour
* Comfort Cove
* Little Heart's Ease
* Sweet Bay
* Too Good Arm
* Little Paradise
* Harbour Grace
* Angel's Cove
* Cupids

When imagination ran out they turned to what they had at hand:

* Plate Cove
* Ladle Cove
* Spout Cove
* Chimney Cove
* Table Cove
* Spoon Cove
* Butter Cove
* Cape Onion
* Broom Point
* Bacon Cove
* Bread Island
* Rooms
* Traytown

Dry of ideas, they ended up with:

* Nameless Cove
* Harbour Harbour

Ahoghill in N. Ireland - they were in hysterics when I promounced it as it looks - it is Ack-hock-ill. I love the name Tittymouse Lane - it is near Weyhill, Andover

HO HO
Good one KathyrnB

(dildo)
goes to bed sniggering....

cmdxxx
love...
'Little paradise'

goodnight...

Ros what's the matter with Maryhill, I was born there.
What about Bonkle in Lanarkshire.


Spud

Coxley, Wells, Somerset.

Ugley, Essex, and Pretty Corner, Sussex

Patricia, I used to live at Lickey End.

We have a few unusual ones here in Shropshire.

Howle, Knockin ( and the local store is called the Knockin Shop) Wigwig, Clun, Diddlebury, Wagbeach, Bluebell, Cronkhill and Woodseaves. Right on the border between Shropshire and Staffordshire is a place called Loggerheads.

There is a 'Little Snoring and a 'Gt Snoring' on the way to norfolk!
it kept the kids which we were in the car with amused for about 30mins
:)

Bozomzeal near Dartmouth
Coffinswell near Torquay
Dog Village near Exeter
and
Woolfardisworthy West nr Bideford

Crapstone in Devon

And going back to the opening post -- in the US, right near the Canadian border, you have Cracker, Montana. ;)

Woonsocket - Massachusettes

These are all in Australia
Mullaloo
Wanneroo
Innaloo
Muckinbuddin
Cocklebiddy
Gunnamatta


Then there is the one in Wales
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Translated means
The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave" i

This one in New Zealand
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Translated means
"the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater,' played his flute to his loved one."


Regards
Jackie

Quebec has some okay ones too.

St-Louis-du-Ha-Ha.

Anse à Mouille-Cul -- pretty much, politely, "wet yer bum cove".

http://parcdubic.com/TexAg/P03FrBF.htm

Ah yes. More politely: Wet Pants Cove. The legend is apparently that two missionaries sat down to rest, and when they awoke the water was up to their waists.

I spent a summer in a village called Trois-Pistoles, also on the south shore of the St Lawrence. A pistole was actually a coin. The tale is that a voyageur bent over to scoop up some water to drink and lost his cup, upon which he said Damn, there go three pistoles!