We’ve 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.
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Rude and Funny London Street and Place Names
- Back Passage, London
- Mincing Lane, London
- Mudchute, London
- Percy Passage, London
- Swallow Passage, London
- Trump Street, London
- Cumming Street, London
- Cockfoster, London
- Dick Turpin Lane, London
- Cock Hill, London
- Titley Close, London
- Cockbush Avenue, London
Rude and Funny English Village and Place Names in England
- Acock’s Green, Worcestershire, UK
- Babes Well, Durham, UK
- Bachelors Bump, Essex, UK
- Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
- Balls Green, Kent, England
- Balls Cross, WestSussex
- Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK
- Barking, Essex
- Beaver Close, Surrey
- Bedlam Bottom, Hampshire, UK
- Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
- Beer, Devon, UK
- Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime
- Bell End near Lickey End
- Bishops Itchington, Staffs, UK
- Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
- Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK
- Booty Lane, NorthYorkshire
- Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
- Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK
- Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK
- Bushygap, Northumberland, UK
- Catholes, Cumbria
- Catsgore, Somerset, UK
- Charles Bottom, Devon, UK
- Clap Hill, village in Kent, UK
- Clay Bottom, Bristol, UK
- Cock Alley, Calow, UK
- Cock Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK
- Cock Green, nr Braintree
- Cock Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK
- Cock Law, Northumberland, UK
- Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk
- Cockermouth, Cumbria
- Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK
- Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK
- Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK
- Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK
- Cockplay, Northumberland, UK
- Cocks, Cornwall
- Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
- Cockshot, Northumberland, UK
- Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK
- Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK
- Coldwind, Cornwall, UK
- Crackington Haven, Cornwall, UK
- Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK
- Crapstone, Devon
- Crotch Crescent, Oxford
- Deans Bottom, Kent, UK
- Devil’s Lapful, Northumberland, UK
- Dicks Mount, Suffolk
- Drinkstone, Suffolk, UK
- Faggot, Northumberland, UK
- Fanny Barks, Durham, UK
- Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
- Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
- Feltham Close, Hampshire
- Feltwell, Norfolk
- Fingringhoe, Essex
- Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK
- Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
- Fruitfall Cove, Cornwall, UK
- Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside
- Gay Street, Sussex. UK
- Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK
- Giggleswick, Staincliffe, Nth. Yorkshire, UK
- Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK
- Gravelly Bottom Road, nr Langley Heath, Kent, UK
- Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK
- Great Horwood, Bucks, UK
- Great Tosson, Northumberland
- Grope Lane, Shropshire
- Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire, UK
- Happy Bottom, Dorset
- Helstone, Cornwall, UK
- Hole Bottom, Yorkshire, UK
- Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire
- Holly Bush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK
- Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
- Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
- Hooker Road, Norwich
- Horncastle, Linconshire
- Horneyman, Kent, UK
- Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, UK
- Horwood, Devon, UK
- Jeffries Passage, Surrey
- Jolly’s Bottom, Cornwall, UK
- Juggs Close, EastSussex
- Knockerdown, Derbyshire, UK
- Lacock, Wiltshire
- Letch Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds, UK
- Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK
- Lickers Lane, Merseyside
- Lickey End, Worcestershire, UK
- Lickfold, West Sussex
- Little Horwood, Bucks, UK
- Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
- Long Lover Lane, Halifax
- Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
- Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
- Minge Lane, Worcestershire
- Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
- Nether Wallop, Hampshire
- Nob End, South Lancashire, UK
- Nork Rise, Surrey
- North Piddle, Worcestershire
- Ogle Close, Merseyside
- Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
- Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
- Over Peover, Cheshire, UK
- Pant, Shropshire
- Penistone, Sth Yorkshire, UK
- Piddle River, Dorset, UK
- Pork Lane, Essex
- Pratt’s Bottom, Kent
- Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
- Pump Alley, Middlesex
- Ram Alley, Wiltshire, UK
- Ramsbottom, Lancs, UK
- Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Sandy Balls, Hampshire
- Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK
- Shaggs, Dorset, UK
- Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
- Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK
- Shitterton, Dorset
- Shittington,, Bedfordshire, UK
- Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK
- Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK
- Slag Lane, Merseyside
- Slip End, Beds, UK
- Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
- Snatchup, Hertfordshire
- Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.
- Spitalin the Street, Lincolnshire
- Splatt, Cornwall, UK
- Staines, Surrey
- Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK
- Swell, Somerset
- The Blind Fiddler, Cornwall, UK
- The Bush, Buckinghamshire
- The Furry, Cornwall
- The Knob, Oxfordshire
- Thong, Kent
- Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
- Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK
- Titlington Mount, Northumberland
- Titty Hill, Sussex, UK
- Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
- Tosside, Lancashire
- Turkey Cock Lane, Colchester, Essex, UK
- Ugley, Essex
- Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK
- Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK
- Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker, East Sussex, UK
- Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
- Wash Dyke, Norfolk, UK
- Weedon Lois, Northampton
- Weedon, in the Parish of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire, UK
- Weeford, Staffordshire, UK
- Wet Rain, Yorkshire, UK
- Wetwang, East Yorkshire
- WhamBottomLane, Lancashire
- Wideopen, Newcastle, UK
- Willey, Warwickshire
- Winkle Street, Southampton
- Wormegay, Norfolk, UK
- Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire
Rude and Funny Place Names in Scotland
- Ardfork, Aberdeenshire
- Ardgay, Ross & Cromarty, UK
- Assloss, Ayrshire, Scotland
- Backside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Backside, Banffshire, Scotland
- Ballownie, Angus, UK
- Blackdikes, Angus
- Bladda, Paisley
- Forest Dyke Road, Lanarkshire
- Boghead, Ayrshire
- Boysack, Angus, Scot.
- Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire
- Butt of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Cock of Arran, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK
- Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
- Dick Court, Lanarkshire
- East Breast, Inverclyde
- Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty, UK
- Fattiehead, Banffshire, Scotland
- Hillo’ManyStanes, Scotland
- Inchbare, Angus, uk
- Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
- Inchmore, Aberdeenshire
- Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
- Stripeside, Banffshire, UK
- Tarty, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland, uk
- Twatt, Orkney
Rude and Funny Welsh Place Names
- Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
- Cat’s Ash, Monmouthshire, Wales
- Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
- Penisarwaen, village in Gwynedd, UK
- Sodom, Flintshire, Wales, UK
- Splott, Cardiff, Wales
- St.Mellons, Cardiff
- Stop-and-Call, Pembrokeshire, UK
- Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK
- Three Cocks, Breconshire, Wales, UK
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