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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:10 pm

Liki End somewhere in the midlands. ;D
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Hagar » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:28 pm

I rather like Old Sodbury. I think it would suit a silly old sod like me. Maybe I should move to Gloucestershire. ;)

How about these in Somerset.

Wyke Champflower
Chilton Cantelo
Huish Episcopi
Upton Noble

or Dorset

Toller Pocorum
Sydling St Thomas
Whitchurch Canicorum
Ryme Intrinseca

More of the same somewhere in Britain.

Barton-in-the-Beans
Deaf Hill cum Langdale
Freezywater
Kill St Nicholas
Over Peover
Pennycumquick
Pease Pottage (or Peas Pottage) <- I used to pass this place every day on my way to & from Gatwick. Nobody seemed to know the correct way to spell it. ::)

Pratt's Bottom
Pity Me
Up Ottery
Zeal Monachorum
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:32 pm

I've just remembered one!!!

Somewhere in London... St Andrews' On The Wardrobe.
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby SideWinder9 » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:25 pm

A few more in The USA

No name, CO
Gunbarell, CO
Mars, PA
Frogtown, PA
Roachtown, IL
Bald head, ME

Did you know that there are 66 different towns with the name Fairveiw in the USA? Why would a state use  it twice?
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby tsunami_KNUW » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:05 pm

Or Hersey, Penn.  ;D Pennsylvania seems to have the most unusual names in the U.S  ;D
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Daz » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:25 pm

strange no one thought of this one in wales

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-Llantysiliogogogoch

its infact the longest name for a place in the world :D and i know it looks like jibble but check it out its real

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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Meyekul » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:39 am

Cornwall is the capital for strange names.

Flushing - Cornwall



There's also a Flushing in New York.
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Da Judge » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:17 pm

Some from New Jersey:

Ho-Ho-Kus
Uranus
Neptune
Flordia
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby farmerdave » Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:40 am

There's also a Flushing in New York.


There's also a Flushing in Ohio.

Some from New Jersey:

Ho-Ho-Kus
Uranus
Neptune
Flordia


Speaking of New Jersey, when I passed through there on vacation last year, at about every intersection there was a gas station/convenience store called Wa-Wa Mart. ??? :D  How's that for strange
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:44 am

There's also a Flushing in New York.  



There's also a Flushing in Ohio.

Well, now you know where the original Flushing is. ;D
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby flyboy 28 » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:54 pm

Wa-Wa Mart.


I think you mean just plain "Wa-Wa"... Yes, it's a convience store around here in 'Jersey... The make the most excellent sandwiches. 8)


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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby tvale80 » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:56 pm

Theres one i know of and its Fireplace, New York
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby tsunami_KNUW » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:44 pm


I think you mean just plain "Wa-Wa"... Yes, it's a convience store around here in 'Jersey... The make the most excellent sandwiches. 8)

Lol! I've been to one of those! I have family that lives in Jersey. I always thought that was a funny name  ;D. Where abouts in New Jersey do you live in?
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby DougC-3 » Sat Jul 10, 2004 10:05 am

I was just innocently looking at a map of the UK and saw Maidenhead, west of London.  We don't...er... see many of those around here.  I think it's about 50 miles from Titty Hill (mentioned by Hagar above) ;).
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Craig. » Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:54 pm

Over Wallop
Middle Wallop <- CraigL knows this one
Nether Wallop
Indeed:) Went to school in nether wallop most of my friends lived in over wallop so strong ties to all 3.

Peasdown St. John, Just outside of Bath. The west country in general is full of strange place names..
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