Magnificent placenames archive

[banana]

Papcastle, with easy access to Cockermouth.

[paranoid android]

Twatt. 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

Upton Upon Severn.

Market Rasen.

 

[sjc]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husbands_Bosworth

Husbands Bosworth.

[BallochSonsFan]

Batman Close always used to make me chuckle.

Part of the White City Estate in west London.

[senorsoupe]

20 minutes ago, BallochSonsFan said:

Batman Close always used to make me chuckle.

Part of the White City Estate in west London.

There is  city in Turkey called Batman.  It's in the dodgy Southeastern part of Turkey so I don't know if I want to go there but still, Batman!

[Boghead ranter]

9 minutes ago, senorsoupe said:

There is  city in Turkey called Batman.  It's in the dodgy Southeastern part of Turkey so I don't know if I want to go there but still, Batman!

Turkey also has a Hotel Binlik.

[Sergeant Wilson]

2 hours ago, BallochSonsFan said:

Batman Close always used to make me chuckle.

Part of the White City Estate in west London.

My mate lived there when he first went London years ago. 

[Thistle_do_nicely]

Not sure if it's fully in the spirit of the thread, but there's a restaurant I've eaten in before in Belgium called Drug Opera:

http://www.drugopera.be/en/home

[Cardinal Richelieu]

2 hours ago, BallochSonsFan said:

Batman Close always used to make me chuckle.

Is it anywhere near here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightrider_Street

 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

[tamthebam]

mentioned in a fine Half Man Half Biscuit Song I give you

Lord Hereford's Knob

[tamthebam]

[Eednud]

Iron Knob, South Australia



Fannie Bay, Northern Territory

[Sergeant Wilson]

7 hours ago, tamthebam said:

Know it well. A few of my favourite haunts are around there. Just along from this pie and bovril themed street.

[Hillonearth]

Disappointingly though hardly surprisingly now renamed, this was actually a street in London.

[banana]

5 hours ago, Hillonearth said:

Disappointingly though hardly surprisingly now renamed, this was actually a street in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

Common name for prostitution streets, fascinating stuff. c**t comes from old Norse kunta. The more you know, etc.

[BFTD]

I was born near the parish of Sheepy, and the roadsigns to Sheepy Magna and Sheepy Parva would always raise a smile. Literally 'the big place where we keep the sheep' and 'the little, etc'.

I can highly recommend nearby Twycross Zoo for the Dons fans planning their weekend break.

[DeeTillEhDeh]

A real place used in the film Groundhog Day.

[Mark Connolly]

This beautiful town in France is called Condom.

This is Muff in Donegal, possibly the diving capital of Ireland.