General Chat

Mostly Anglo Saxon in origin, I believe.
Tesco's sell Cock Flavour soup. Honestly.

Butts Corner.

We’ll shortly be visiting Gay Dawn Farm, Pennis Lane. :-S

There's a Boggy Bottom in Hertfordshire and Brown Willy in Cornwall :-D :-D :-D

Context, I suppose, Dermot,like the school that was quite happy with its original name, until there appeared on tv a program, named the same that was full of dubious content...

something Park...

I drove through Cock Green this afternoon, I presume it refers to a male chicken. Lol.

Who creates 'rude' words?

Bell End, I believe, was the name of the local Coal Mine.

In Bolton there is a place called Nob End, near to the village of Little Lever. It also has mining connections.

Not rude, but there is a small hamlet in Devon, near Tavistock on the road to Morwelham Quay called Chip Shop. On a ruder note, a quick Google search turned up two Twatts, in Orkney and Shetland, a Minge Lane in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcs., a Back Passage, in the City of London, and a Tickle Cock Bridge in W. Yorks.

Hmmm don't suppose Bolsover comes into this at all?


or Pratts Bottom? in Kent...

Crikey!! Better tell my daughters (and probably grand daughter) they're using an 'archaic' expression!!
Quite common around here.

Edit: and I don't just mean my house - I'm talking a huge area! ;-)

A phrase common enough when I was a lad in London but now very archaic.

Cute Clumsy Girl: Nurse Dawson, as played by Joan Sims in her "screen siren" years, is well-meaning but mistake-prone, accidentally leaving a dish of catheters on the stove to sterilise for so long that they burn, and accidentally summoning the fire brigade when she tries to sound the bell for the end of visiting hours.
(Carry on Nurse)

the phrase was used at least once by Kenneth Williams & co on radio but he would wouldn't he?

My GF ( a publican) used to have a large model bell donated by Bell's whiskey on the bar at Christmas. The winners of the raffle won the bell full of whiskey. I had no idea at the time why GM so objected to GF calling it "the Bell End" .. "army talk" she used to call it.

These days Brick Lane needs a working knowledge of Bangla rather than cockney and polari.

Bob, you are correct about a boggart. There is a place in Manchester called Boggart Hole Clough.

We have a Beggars Hollow, shown on old maps as Bull Beggars Bottom. Apparently a bull beggar was some sort of goblin. I think boggart is a similar word.

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There are several villages between Balls Cross and Titty Hill and you can't get to it from either place by going through Gay Street.

If you turn off at Cocking on the Midhurst road and then do a right at Didling you will eventually cross the main road and find the one that goes past Titty Hill.

Go the other way and you can find Diddy Bones Nap!

Love those fella's names Maggie :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Maggie, must have been in Fawcett Road. (Fosset Road).

The wonderful David Sedaris and his partner Hugh were looking for property in Southern England.
"Hugh got online and found a house called Faggot Stacks, and it was located between the villages of Balls Cross and Titty Hill."