General Chat

Oh I forgot. There is a place up the road from me called 'Puny Drain'. There's nothing there though. There used to be a bridge there which crossed the river, but it aint there no more.

We have a hamlet near here called STANK and as there are a few farms there it probably does!!!!! LOL

My favourite is Zeal Monachorum in mid Devon. Joy xx

Cornwall would appear to have a penchant for the Nether regions then OC LOL Dave.....pmsl, doesn't it just? Jen

Have always liked 'Kilmahog' nr.Callender in the Trossachs !!! Says it all really, Dave

A few from Cornwall Cripplesease Park Bottom London Apprentice Cockwell Cocks Goongumpus Our local council has suddenly taken to giving all place names in Cornish on roadsigns. I met a Tesco delivery driver early the other morning, almost in tears because he couldnt find Carbis Bay - it has been renamed Porthrepta, according to the road sign! OC

The mind boggles at Netherthong Dorothy.................lol. I have heard of Heckmondwicke before but none of the others. Jen

Love the thread Jen. Didn't know any unusual names so googled. Here is but a v. small few. Badger's Mount near Farnborough - the mind boogles. Brawl near Thurso at the top of Scotland Broadwoodwidger near Launceston Coffinswell near Torquay, Devon Foul Mile near Hailsham, East Sussex Heckmondwike east of Halifax, West Yorkshire Kettlesing Bottom west of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Killiecrankie near Pitlochrie Nasty near Stevenage. (Nasty Women's Institute?) Nempnett Thrubwell between Bath and Weston super Mare. Netherthong near Huddersfield And so on...... Dorothy

Nice one Dianne, Too tempting not to LOL! Jen

Some of my ancestors come from Wombleton which is in North Yorkshire near Kirkbymoorside and Helmsley. Although their name is Miller I call them the Wimbles of Wombleton. Dianne xx

Me too Gloryer, Sounds like a rude town lol! BTW, still can't get in to the groups photos, tried every combination I know.......Zilch! Not give up yet though lol! Jen

I think I would be embarassed to say I live in Penistone

Who thinks them all up Awdrey, that's what I'd like to know lol? Jen

All sounds wonderful Paul, though not much of a reader myself these days, as my eyes are slowly letting me down and the concentration............well, that's virtually none existant lol! I still paint a lot though and have actually done several paintings and chalk drawings of great Indian chiefs like Sitting Bull. My youngest son has a framed chalk drawing on his wall.....he loves it and I bought him an Indian chief statue for his birthday this year. Jen

I love things like that too. I've been reading about Ancient Greece at the moment.. I've been reading all the stories about different deities and stuff at the moment. Really interesting. So and so is at it with such and such, thingy killed whats-his-face. And sonny jim has robbed all the golden apples. It's like some kind of weird soap! LOL

Think I've a good idea Paul lol! Love the catbrain, imagine telling someone that, they'd think they were being called pmsl. Jen

Paul, I'm quite jealous, you must have gone to a very interesting Primary school, I don't ever remember being taught anything about any North American Indian Tribes, and I have always been facinated by their culture and way of life, not that I could ever envisage coping with the lifestyle myself.........and I'm talking about then, not now. They lived, faught and died under such hard and cruel times and circumstances, and some of the images of their weather worn faces say it all. I've always been facinated by their spiritualism and the believe in their forefathers and the spirits in general. May sound romantic I know but, they lived by their beliefs. And they were a proud nation made up of many tribes, and I expect many still are. Jen

Oh and there's a place in Austria called ******* Can you guess what it's called? And a place in Orkney called **** But my favorite is Catbrain.

Robins Bottom in Sussex - RAF high and mighties threatened husband with a charge when he put this down as his father's place of birth when they were doing an extra security check as he was at Boscombe Down! They rang his father and then got hold of an Ordnance Survey Map - they never did apologise to him!

I couldn't remember the whole name just the start of it, but we learnt about Sioux tribes at Primary School So i googled what I remembered, and it gave me the answer!