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List of places in Angus. Lists of places within Scottish local authorities.
Select a place to find out which period it relates.
Funny places names in scotland. Here we look at a selection of Scotlands oddest place names - and how they came about. Brokenwind was a farm settlement near Kinmudy in 19th Century Aberdeenshire. There are many Scottish place names that send tourists and Scots alike into a fit of laughter upon passing a road sign or just seeing it listed on a map.
For example the hamlet of Brokenwind near. From Brokenwind to Hell Dull and Hothole these placenames were often derived through humour legend and hardshipHere we look at a selection of Scotlands oddest place names -. But the Scottish writer himself should have known better.
Surely the greatest density of strange place names per square mile occurs in a small corner of his own country -. Weve done hours of research and have put together the ultimate list of funny British place names. I was laughing for hours trying to find the most amusing and rude place names in the British Isles.
I hope you get as much pleasure reading the list as I got putting it together. Be sure to check out our fun Word Cloud Map of the UK which incorporates al the words on this list into a fun. Some British towns and villages have some pretty lets say interesting names.
Read this list and youre guaranteed a chuckle. Rude and Funny Welsh Place Names Bullyhole Bottom Monmouthshire Wales UK Cats Ash Monmouthshire Wales Pant-y-Felin Road Swansea Penisarwaen village in Gwynedd UK Sodom Flintshire Wales UK Splott Cardiff Wales StMellons Cardiff Stop-and-Call. Yes these are all real places that somewhere in the UK.
And better yet this is only a small selection for more on weird and rude place names have a look at the following books. The 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain. Hoo Howe Ware Wye and Wem weird wonderful and wacky British place names.
And this is no more prevelant than in some of the rude funny and downright bizarre place names we all drive past on a daily basis without batting an eyelid -. The gazetteer is an A-Z index of inhabited places in Scotland both past and present. It has been created from central government and local government records and older gazetteers.
When you search for a place by name or postcode the website looks for a match in the gazetteer. There may be several matches as this place has changed over time. Select a place to find out which period it relates.
A good modern source for Scottish place names in their Scots forms is The Scots Map and. So it is a well known fact that Scotland has some of the best names for its town and villages and today I plan to prove that by sharing with you some funny S. 35 rows Our database currently has a total of 7100 TownsVillages in Scotland UK.
The hilarious map of odd places by Petrarch1603 shows unlikely names in England Scotland Wales and Ireland ranging from Loose Bottom in East Sussex to Three Cocks in Powys. Lists of places within Scottish local authorities. List of places in Aberdeen.
List of places in Aberdeenshire. List of places in Angus. List of places in Argyll and Bute.
List of places in Clackmannanshire. List of places in Dumfries and Galloway. List of places in Dundee.
A place in Scotland. A place without a bridge but with many cocks. A street in Smithfield London which in the medieval period was home to legal brothels.
That would explain the name. An isolated hamlet in England with a bit of a cocaine. Youll find more funny rude and delightfully odd place names on the Marvellous Map of Great British Place Names - available in 3 formats fold-out flat or framed from 1499.
Britains Top 12 Funny Place Names. A part of the village of Eversholt Befordshire Witts End is also a leading light among those rare British place names that also moonlight as sayings.