ZimbiIV Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Vaughan, I apologise for my flippant remarks earlier. I live in rural Northumberland and we have given up trying to explain to people when on our boat, about where we live. He (Cummins) could have gone is No Such Place, it does exist, also known as Cooperative Villas. It is about the same distance and the press would have had a field day with that name. Norfolk does not have the sole right to funny place names. I have visited 3 places in France and could not place them on a map within 200 miles. paul 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 No problem old chap, but thanks very much for saying so. I set myself up for whatever was coming, by joining that discussion in the first place! Still, it gave us all a chance to let off a bit of steam about such an astounding subject. 9 hours ago, ZimbiIV said: Norfolk does not have the sole right to funny place names. When we used to live in Chateau-Thierry, in France, there was a village nearby called RUDENOISE. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Anyone been to Nowhere on the Broads ? It's about a mile from Gt Yarmouth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petersjoy Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Always remember when Yorkshire weather used to show Hopton, Skipton and Jump. in the yorkshire area. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CambridgeCabby Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I always found it amusing that there was a waiting list to join the Ugley Woman’s Institute but since the name was changed to The Woman’s Institute of Ugley many members left 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aboattime Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 There is a small hamlet in the Dales called Crackpot ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I used to play drums with a morris side from near maidstone the loose women this was decades before the tv show, the band members were called the loose knit band. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 I must have come to see you play outside the Chequers in Loose on a number of Boxing Days I also remember a radio dj once giving a 'shout out to the Loose Womens Institute! For anyone not familiar with the place its actually pronounced - lieu - s 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 The area has a bowling club, I always misread it. Loose Bowls Club. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshman Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Must have gone up market since I left then - always pronounced as it sounds back then!!! Loose as in rattles - must be more poncy these days if they have changed the pronunciation!!! Bit like Clay and Cley up here - my old granddad would turn in his grave if he only knew how they now pronounce that nowadays!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Definitely pronounced Loose locally, even by the better Estate agents. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaniaman Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Oops, sorry to lower the tone but has anyone come across the village of T_ _ tt on the Isle of Orkney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 34 minutes ago, scaniaman said: Oops, sorry to lower the tone but has anyone come across the village of T_ _ tt on the Isle of Orkney. hen there's Muff, near Londonderry. Has a scuba club as well https://www.muffdivingclub.ie/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 18 hours ago, psychicsurveyor said: The area has a bowling club, I always misread it. Loose Bowls Club. I grew up on the Loose Road, the pub opposite the Bowling club is the Swan, and was my local for years run by George and Ann, they were great characters, my grandparents lived in the village, never heard it referred to as Loose Anyway however you pronounce it, the village is beautiful I spent many hours as a child playing in the stream and valley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 The actual village in the valley is beautiful, and very unique in the area. The stream runs under some properties, it is a nightmare for a surveyor . A lot of building work has gone on on the Loose road lately. The old pub on the corner before you go down into the valley part has been built on as housing. The valley area is unchanged. I have heard it pronounced, lieu - s, but generally it has been corrupted by lazy english. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I often have a chuckle when councils and developers build on land and then have a go at 'cleaning up' the local name for example... There is a lane in the village of Fishlake that runs between Trundle Lane, Fishlake Nab and Main Street that for hundreds of years was called 'Sh***y Lane'. Of course, now it has a few modern 'dwellings' on it, the street sign reads 'Dirty Lane'. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retired Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Sign in Orpington to local villages. Always makes the wife crease up. Badgers Mount Pratts Bottom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 smarden has a lewd lane (and that may be the cleaned up version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclemike Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 how about slutshole lane, attleborough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydraser Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I often get distracted on Google Earth when I see an old railway and find myself searching out old stations (or swing bridges on the Broads). Usually a good pointer is a "station road". When following the old line from Malvern to Upton on Severn, Worcs, where you would expect to find station road there is M*nge Lane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 This reminds me of looking for rude words in the dictionary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairTmiddlin Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Psychicsurveyor Was the of supposed to be an I'm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 2 hours ago, FairTmiddlin said: Psychicsurveyor Was the of supposed to be an I'm Not for 50 years , honest guv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I know a few folk that must come from here... https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bell+End,+Stourbridge/@52.3916428,-2.0951209,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4870939b3dd44a55:0x54244a0b4b609660!8m2!3d52.3925649!4d-2.0899722 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gancanny Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 near cramlington, northumberland there is a BOGHOUSES near alston there is a DIRT POT also a SLAGGYFORD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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