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From Slaparse Lane to Daddyhole Road Devon has its fair share of silly names. Norman influence is seen mainly in the addition of the names of manorial lords.
Here are 24 of the crackers you came back to us with 1 Squeezebelly Lane Kingsbridge The perfect name for a little alleyway where youll struggle to get through in anything but single file.
Funny place names in devon. On social media we asked Devon Lifes readers and followers to name our countys funniest rudest crudest and most unusual place or street names. Here are 24 of the crackers you came back to us with 1 Squeezebelly Lane Kingsbridge The perfect name for a little alleyway where youll struggle to get through in anything but single file. Despite its name people do live in Nomansland a small village near Tiverton in mid Devon.
It was named Nomansland as it was once a remote extra-parochial area where three parishes met. Not quite as funny as Crapstone but it still made us smile. Here in Devon there are plenty of rude place names that often get a lot of recognition.
From Slaparse Lane to Daddyhole Road Devon has its fair share of silly names. Devon Place Names The Vikings left no place-names in Devon if we exclude Lundy puffin isle but a few AngloDanish personal names appear later in Cnuts time. Norman influence is seen mainly in the addition of the names of manorial lords.
Churston Ferrers for example is Churchtown which belongs to the Ferrers family. Every county has its fair share of weird wonderful and funny place names. Some are accidental puns others are funny only to locals.
Here in Dorset we love an unusual place name. So here are 13 of the funniest we have found. If you spot any we have missed please send us a comment below or email newsdeskdorsetechocouk.
Gazetteer Entries in Devon England at British Place Names BritishPlaceNamesUK is a comprehensive gazetteer of every named place in Great Britain including cities towns villages woodland hills mountains coastal features and other named places. In 1881 Heywood is a Lancs name Haywood is the north Midlands - Staffs Derby Yorks. Hayward is across England but relatively few in Devon and Heyward is also well spread but with some significant numbers in Devon.
However it is a Newton Abbott name rather than a Bideford one as Guppy said. Britains funny rude and delightfully odd place names including the selection on this page are the subject of the Marvellous Map of Great British Place Names. Available in 3 formats fold-out flat or framed from 1499.