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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Steve H on November 01, 2018, 11:41:30 PM
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Fifehead Magdalen
Ryme Intrinseca
Wootton Bassett
Lydiard Tregoze
Chilton Foliat
Clifton Maybank
Collingbourne Ducis
Hardington Mandeville
Melbury Bubb
Melbury Osmond
Melbury Sampford
Sampford Courtenay
Sampford Arundel
Sampford Peverell
Sampford Brett
Horsted Keynes
Huish Episcopi
Huish Champflower
Wyke Champflower
Dowlish Wake
Hatch Beauchamp
Staple Fitzpaine
Langford Budville
Kittisford Barton
Holcomb Rogus
Budleigh Salterton
Yatton Keynell
Upton Cheyney
Farrington Gurney
Barrow Gurney
Norton Hawkfield
Norton Malreward
Ston Easton
Chewton Mendip
Hinton Admiral
Hinton Blewett
Temple Cloud
Bishop Sutton
Midsomer Norton
Shepton Mallet
Buckland Dinham
Hinton Charterhouse
Limpley Stoke
Farleigh Hungerford
Monkton Farleigh
Monkton Combe
Upton Scudamore
Dilton Marsh
Draycot Cerne
Christian Malford
Kington Langley
Langley Burrell
Tytherton Lucas
Frampton Cotterell
Compton Bassett
Clyffe Pypard
Berwick Bassett
Winterbourne Bassett
Winterbourne Monkton
Winterbourne Gunner
Winterbourne Dauntsey
Winterbourne Muston
Winterbourne Zelston
Lytchett Matravers
Corfe Mullen
Toller Whelme
Allerton Mauleverer
Coatham Mundeville
Nempnett Thrubwell
Steeple Bumstead
Redmarley D'Abitot
Crowmarsh Gifford
Stocking Pelham
Zeal Monachorum
Pity Me
Westward Ho!
New Invention
Any other favourites to add to the list?
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Always been fond of:
Wood Enderby
Mavis Enderby and
Bag Enderby
All Lincolnshire place names
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I remember reading of a signpost which said "To Mavis Enderby and Old Bolingbroke". Underneath, some wag had written "a son."
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I don't find most of those odd at all, Wootton Bassett &Upton Cheyney for example. Seem like normal sort of place names.
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I don't find most of those odd at all, Wootton Bassett & Upton Cheyney for example. Seem like normal sort of place names.
Don't think anyone has said they are odd, but rather that they are somewhat wonderful.
Glad Nempnett Thrubwell was on the list - a favourite of mine.
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Matching Tye is in Essex.
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I've always found Chalfont St Giles a pain in the arse.
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Lychett Matravers has to be a villain from a Ngaio Marsh novel.
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Two examples from my home town area:
Woolsthorpe by Belvoir
Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth
The second was the birthplace of one of the most renowned human beings ever to walk on this planet.
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Places in my home county include Margaret Roding, Helions Bumpstead, Great Henny and Salcott Cum Virley.
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Places in my home county include Margaret Roding, Helions Bumpstead, Great Henny and Salcott Cum Virley.
Helions Bumpstead is a good one :)
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In Enfield where I lived for some time was a place called World's End, and little further down the road Botany Bay, so called because it was supposedly one of the last places prisoners stayed before they were shipped off the Australia (I don't know if that's true though).
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In the late 70s and early 80s we lived in Kent, in what was then a village, but now a town, called Paddock Wood.
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Torpenhow, in Cumbria, means "Hill hill hill".
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Torpenhow, in Cumbria, means "Hill hill hill".
Perhaps it was an accident black spot in past times. People mightave kept bumping into it.
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Great Snoring
Little Snoring
Crackpot
Lychett Matravers has to be a villain from a Ngaio Marsh novel.
What a coincidence that you should say that! First time I ever read a Ngaio Marsh novel, 'Death in ecstasy', I was on a short holiday with parents in a place called Langton Matravers in Dorset (which was then a gorgeous place). I can still picture myself in my room by the window with the book in my hands. It was in the bookcase for guests to read.
She doesn't have any connection with Dorset afaik but you saying what you did is uncanny.
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Much Hadham is quote close to me - whenever I go through it for some reason I think of Carry On films.
There's also Cold Christmas a bit further afield.
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Great Snoring
Little Snoring
Crackpot
What a coincidence that you should say that! First time I ever read a Ngaio Marsh novel, 'Death in ecstasy', I was on a short holiday with parents in a place called Langton Matravers in Dorset (which was then a gorgeous place). I can still picture myself in my room by the window with the book in my hands. It was in the bookcase for guests to read.
She doesn't have any connection with Dorset afaik but you saying what you did is uncanny.
Oh that is odd.
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As a cyclist I tend to notice the odd ones. All the following are fairly near me: Chigmal Smealy, Good Easter, Abbess Roding, Furneaux Pelham, Wendens Ambo, Shudy Camps, Bardfield Saling, Beauchamp Roding. And of course who could forget the timeless Shellow Bowells?
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Last time I drove into Castle Camps there was a dummy wearing evening dress tied to the village sign.
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There are eight Rodings - Abbess, Margaret, Beauchamp, Leaden, White, Aythorpe, High and Berners. People in the know say it as 'Rooding' as the original name was 'Roothing'.
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As a cyclist I tend to notice the odd ones. All the following are fairly near me: Chigmal Smealy, Good Easter, Abbess Roding, Furneaux Pelham, Wendens Ambo, Shudy Camps, Bardfield Saling, Beauchamp Roding. And of course who could forget the timeless Shellow Bowells?
Speaking of Shellow Bellows, but going slightly off topic, it forms part of Willingale parish (I think), which I love because it has two parish churches almost side by side, one called Willingale Spain and one called Willingale Doe.
http://www.willingale.org/wp/willingale-village/the-two-churches-of-willingale-village/
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A lot of those places are in Dorset, including Lytchett Matravers.
But allow me to lower the tone with a few more choice place names from my home county of Dorsetshire...
Scratchy Bottom
Shitterton
Wancombe Hill (which is conveniently right next to Dickley Hill)
Wancombe Bottom
Smacam Down
Pound Bottom
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Crackpot
Great Heck
Little Heck
All in Yorkshire
Twatt both in Orkney and Shetland
And slightly off topic, Grape Lane is a famous Lane in Whitby, which was once known as Grope Lane. However, even earlier, it was called Gropecunt Lane. It was quite a dark area I believe. ::)
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I knew Crackpot, been there. It's in Swaledale and is lovely.
Following on from Lytchett and Langton Matravers in Dorset, I remembered :
Dancing Ledge.
I remember being scared climbing down to beach. Beach was lovely & I was OK going back up!
Makes me feel nostalgic, want to go back. Prob'ly not the same as it was when I was at school.
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In Enfield where I lived for some time was a place called World's End, and little further down the road Botany Bay, so called because it was supposedly one of the last places prisoners stayed before they were shipped off the Australia (I don't know if that's true though).
There was a 'World's End' in Chelsea too.
Land's End?
LR, I know Paddock Wood quite well. That area is less than 30 miles from Bromley, been there often. You can get a nice pub lunch.
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Not sure how wonderful it is, but it wasn't so long ago that just off Cheapside in London was (ahem) a Gropec*** Lane. It was where the ladies of ill-repute would ply their trade.
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As a cyclist I tend to notice the odd ones. All the following are fairly near me: Chigmal Smealy, Good Easter, Abbess Roding, Furneaux Pelham, Wendens Ambo, Shudy Camps, Bardfield Saling, Beauchamp Roding. And of course who could forget the timeless Shellow Bowells?
What was that last one?
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Ad-o will be familiar with the part of London known as 'the Boleyn' (as in, 'I'm just going round the Boleyn'); where Green St meets Barking Rd is the Boleyn tavern, and just off Green St used to be the Boleyn Ground. It gets its name from the story (probably false) that Anne Boleyn lived in Green St House. Green St and other local roads probably have a pre-Roman layout that could go back to the Iron Age.
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Ad-o will be familiar with the part of London known as 'the Boleyn' (as in, 'I'm just going round the Boleyn'); where Green St meets Barking Rd is the Boleyn tavern, and just off Green St used to be the Boleyn Ground. It gets its name from the story (probably false) that Anne Boleyn lived in Green St House. Green St and other local roads probably have a pre-Roman layout that could go back to the Iron Age.
Indeed. Had many a prematch pint there.
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As a cyclist I tend to notice the odd ones. All the following are fairly near me: Chigmal Smealy, Good Easter, Abbess Roding, Furneaux Pelham, Wendens Ambo, Shudy Camps, Bardfield Saling, Beauchamp Roding. And of course who could forget the timeless Shellow Bowells?
You can't be all that far from me, then, those being in East Herts and West Essex - I've cycled through Furneaux Pelham. Wasn't there a notorious murder there some years ago, or am I thinking of somewhere else? An elderly retired gentleman got bumped off in his home, by someone he answered the door to, if memory serves. I'm in Hemel Hempstead, in West Hertfordshire.
Yes, it was in Furneaux Pelham - an elderly retired army officer. I cycled past his house, which I recognised from the photos in the news reports. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/05/convicted-murderer-jailed-army-officer
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Seve H,
You can't be all that far from me, then, those being in East Herts and West Essex - I've cycled through Furneaux Pelham. Wasn't there a notorious murder there some years ago, or am I thinking of somewhere else? An elderly retired gentleman got bumped off in his home, by someone he answered the door to, if memory serves. I'm in Hemel Hempstead, in West Hertfordshire.
Yes, it was in Furneaux Pelham - an elderly retired army officer. I cycled past his house, which I recognised from the photos in the news reports. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/05/convicted-murderer-jailed-army-officer
Yup, I'm in god's own country - North West Essex.
Yes, that was Furneaux Pelham - awful story. Also Dame Shirley Williams lives there - I see her fairly often as it happens.
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A lot of those places are in Dorset, including Lytchett Matravers.
But allow me to lower the tone with a few more choice place names from my home county of Dorsetshire...
Scratchy Bottom
Shitterton
Wancombe Hill (which is conveniently right next to Dickley Hill)
Wancombe Bottom
Smacam Down
Pound Bottom
To raise the tone, there is Paradise Bottom at Abbott's Lea nr. Bristol - approached by what was once the great country seat of the Miles family.
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I know it's off topic, but we once were sent some details for a lovely old house (Tudor I think) in the very pretty village of Thaxted in Essex (where Gustav Holst lived while composing the Planets Suite since you ask).
Anyway, I was reading the details and saw a section titled "Ground Rent". "Oh-oh" I thought, that's the last thing we want. But you know what the ground rent was? I'll quote exactly: "One red rose every midsummer's eve".
How lovely is that, and what I wonder was the story?
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I know it's off topic, but we once were sent some details for a lovely old house (Tudor I think) in the very pretty village of Thaxted in Essex (where Gustav Holst lived while composing the Planet Suite since you ask).
Anyway, I was reading the details and saw a section titled "Ground Rent". "Oh-oh" I thought, that's the last thing we want. But you know what the ground rent was? I'll quote exactly: "One red rose every midsummer's eve".
How lovely is that, and what I wonder was the story?
Perhaps the Milk Tray advert was filmed there?
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Scunthorpe !
whoever put it in there had a great sense of humour ;)