Name that village
When I first found out we were moving to Buckland Ripers I thought it was a strange name. Now that I have been here for a while it is nothing compared to some of the villages that I have driven through. Yes - obviously not having the family here is giving me too much free time but I thought I would look at my local Dorset Map and give you a flavour of where you could live:
There are some towns where I think they have tried to joint two of the most obscure words together such as Alton Pancras; Bere Regis, Child Okeford; Corfe Mullen; Fifehead Magdelen; Fontmell Magna; Lytchett Matravers; and Sixpenny Handley.
And if joining two words was not enough why not three: Gussage All Saints; Frome St Quintin; Milton on Stour; Monkton Up Wimborne; and my favourite, Three Legged Cross.
Alternatively others seem to be just a whole lot of letters together in no particular order: Morcombelake; Owermoigne; Ryme Intrinseca.
There are some that sound like a medical disease such as Bloxworth; Clapgate; Furzebrook; Holditch; Poxwell.
Others sound like a cocktail such as Kings Stag; Plush; Uploaders.
Then there is the fascination with water with names such as Affpuddle; briantspuddle; Puddletown; Piddlehinton; Piddletrenthide; Tolpuddle; and Turners Puddle
A few that just sound stupid such as Toller Fratrum and Toller Porcorum
Atleast some villages sound nice and have an animal connection: Bearwood; Birdsmorgate; Goathill; Wynford Eagle.
A Mr Tarrant must have had a few wives with Tarrant Crawford; Tarrant Gunville; Tarrant Hinton; Tarrant Keynestone; Tarrant Launceston; Tarrant Monkton; Tarrant Rushton
Leaving the best to last I know Australia is considered the land down under but there is: Asick Bottom; Happy Bottom; Backside; Bottom Head; Bogend; Buttock Point; Pratts Bottom; Butt Hatch; Burnt Bottom; Handcock's Bottom and out the other end - Crapstone.
As you can tell I got excited so I decided to start looking further afield in the UK for strange place names. Guess what......
The male anatomy gets a good exposure with Sandy Balls; Cock Bridge; Cocking; Cocklick End; Cockpole Green; Cockermouth; The Hard; and if one is not bad enough how about, Three Cocks.
The girls are not missed either with: Muff; Muffworthy; Thong; Thrashbush; Shaggs; Lusty Hill; Titsey and Titty Hill
OK I could spend all night going through the maps so I have to stop here but one thing is for sure - Australia is a great place to live and I am glad that I will never live in Bitchfield; Dead; Dogdyke; Fattahead; Foul End; and Nasty.
What a funny Country!
6 comments:
Ohmygod!
About 5 minutes ago I sent you an e-mail stirring you about some of the place names around you. I also pointed out that for all the names on the map, I can't find Buckland Ripers anywhere. I can see that your research has revealed a lot more detail than mine did.
For the drunk ones (including you Hux) that want to know exactly where Buckland Ripers is I have added a new link at the very bottom of the blog. go to the map and just below it there is a link.
You may find some other great village and farm names here as well
Way too much free time on your hands Jimbo. This sounds a lot like one of the Lonely Planet type books that the 2 guys from A River Somewhere wrote
lots of love
Sis
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From Bottom Head and Buttock Point to BANGKOK. We are still having a great time, Margaritas at the COCKTAIL bar on 64th floor rooftop. Shopping, great food as always, good friends, Chrissy wishes she was here NOW. Luv Mum
The piddles, puddles and tarrants are rivers. The bottom villages refer to physical locations as in bottom of the hill valley. You missed Studland which has a nudist beach! You should read The Road to Mount Buggery: A Journey through the Curiously Named Places of Australia.
Dave - I want to know how you know that it is a nudist beach???
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