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[prpr]

You should have sent them to Penistone or Scunthorpe, and all the other ones in the UK with somewhat dubious names. It's all fairly well documented, as you might expect these days.

 

[RobH1]

I always fancied a property at the far end of a valley and calling it 'Knob Head'.

 

[Owen Smith]

My parents had long standing friends (now dead) with surname Sidebottom. Like the related name Longbottom this causes sniggering even in the UK, but a "bottom" is a field which is where the name comes from.

Related to tits as birds, there are shags and boobies.

 

[prpr]

a "bottom" is a field

Bristol Airport is otherwise known as Lulsgate, from Lulsgate Bottom. It's on top of a hill - c. 600' amsl - and I believe the second highest major airport in the UK after Leeds/Bradford (Yeadon).

 

[antipodean]

When I worked for a Canadian company they were astonished that there is a town in the UK called Maidenhead.

And I periodically drive past Brightwell-cum-Sotwell ... Oh well.

 

[EEPhil]

You should have sent them to Penistone or Scunthorpe

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[trog]

Not a place name but surely whoever named this plant I just saw on a site had to be having a laugh

Rubus Cockburnianus

White-Stemmed Bramble

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