Top 10 Rudest Place Names in Britain
Friday, 20th February 2009 by Alex Turnbull
For a bit of Friday fun, here's a roundup of our top ten rudest and funniest1 UK place names on Google Maps.
So with no further ado, in reverse order, the winners are...
10. Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
9. Back Passage, City of London
8. Fine Bush Lane, West London
7. Crapstone, Devon
6. Sluts Hole Lane, Norfolk
5. Penistone, Yorkshire
4. Dick Place, Edinburgh2
3. Pennycomequick Hill, Plymouth
2. Minge Lane, Worcestershire
1. Butt Hole Road, Yorkshire
Of course the UK being the kind of place it is, there's absolutely trillions more of these to be found. Some that didn't make this list include:
- Cocks, Cornwall
- Thong, Kent
- Crotch Crescent, Oxfordshire
- Wetwang, East Yorkshire
- Twatt, Shetland
- Slag Lane, Wiltshire
- Hardon road, Wolverhampton
- Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
If you enjoyed this post, be sure to check out one of our most popular posts of 2007, which was about Fucking, Austria.
Thanks to The NY Times, via Nev.
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Disclaimer: May only be funny if you have a very puerile sense of humour. ↩︎
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As a bonus, Dick Place is intersected by Cumin Place and Findhorn Place. ↩︎
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You forgot upper Dicker and lower Dicker
What about Muff in Co. derry in northern ireland??
Dont mind if i do!
Muff is NOT in Co. Derry!!!!!!! It’s a little village in Co. Donegal…… Republic of Ireland! Although it is only 10 minutes drive away from Derry City. There’s a garage there called Top Muff where they sell top muffins,…they hold the annual Muff festival every July and (google this if you don’t believe me!) there’s the Muff Diving Club!!!
Every morning, the child in me can’t help smiling as I sit in traffic looking at Manwood avenue…
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Many towns in England used to have thoroughfares called Grope Lane, Gropec_nt Lane or Pokeskirt Lane, usually where the ladies of more negotiable virtue would peddle their.. erm… wares. Sadly most if not all of these have had their names changed.
Rodti, I found out about the utterly brilliant Gropecunt Lane while researching this post, but sadly there are none at all to see on Google Maps and (at least officially), none left in Britain any more.
@Alex For shame! We should bring them back now that swearing’s big and clever again. Nice to see you at the Twestival, btw!
Twatt is on Orkney not Shetland
There’s a Twatt in Orkney AND Shetland!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt
I want to live in twat!!
I never know there are places/towns with these names exist till I visited this site. Pretty amusing. LOL.
No #8?
Number 8? waves hands mysteriously Why it’s right there of course!
There is a little village, just outside Colchester in the East Of England called . .
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Fingringhoe !!!!
how cool is that ;o)
and don’t forget a famous “F*****g” town in Austria
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Yeah and its neighbouring village…Wank (pronounced Vank!)
My all time favorite: Seymour Johnson AFB in South Carolina: View Placemark
Don’t forget Bell End in Sandwell
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It isnt labeled on Google Maps but this area of Bolton is called Nob End View Placemark
If you dont believe me http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4863
What is a “minge” and why is it rude?
Well Don, most of these places either refer to either male or female genitalia, and in the case of the commonly used British word “minge”, we find the latter… 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minge
Aha…ok. I’ll admit that 99.9% of my knowledge of British slang comes from Red Dwarf, I’m such a smeghead.
Cuckoo’s Knob has always been a local favourite…
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I once worked for Shetland Islands Council and had to archive a bunch of their records. I came across a load of death certificate details or similar that referred to the village of Twatt.
Basicaly, there were 2 cemetaries – the long-standing original one and a more recent one. In order to differentiate beween the two they were called Twatt cemetary and old Twatt cemetary!
You forgot this:
Fingringhoe
No mention of Cockburn Street in Edinburgh? 🙂
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=55.950563,-3.189801&z=18
How to get from Hugging (Bocholt) to Fucking (Tarsdorf)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Hugging,+Germany&daddr=Kissing,+Germany+to:Fucking+Tarsdorf,+Br
http://tinyurl.com/bmfuca
What about Lunt in Merseyside? Not rude by itself, but vandals keep ‘adjusting’ the sign…
Here in the states just outside of philadelphia there is one of my favorite intersections. Gay st meets Nut rd.
Always thought this was a great name! View Placemark Wa*n#ers Corner, near Portland.
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Shotfan I can’t see a street name, but the google maps label reads “Wanker’s Country Store”!
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=45.37555,-122.701874&z=20
hahahaha, can we get one for every country. This is an awesome top ten list, you can post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and then link back to your site. We are looking for content and in return our users will track back to your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.
Cockburn Street in Edinburgh, despite looking rather rude, is actually pronounced “Co-burn Street” which does remove the fun from the name.
Cock Bridge up in the Grampian Mountains, however, does not drop the “ck” from Cock. And given it’s on one of the first major(ish) roads to close due to snow in Scotland you can regularly hear me giggling like a schoolgirl when the radio annouces the “Cock Bridge to Tomintoul” road closes.
I lived in Penistone for 16 years! Great to see it on this life!
Then, of course, in the New Forest we’ve got Roger Penny Way. View Placemark (50.933999,-1.748761) home of the Fighting Cocks pub and not far from Sandy Balls Caravan Park.
You couldn’t make it up, could you?
I HAVE BEEN HERE!!! we stay at sandy balls campsite every year with the motorbike club and we walk down the road to the fighting cocks pub for a drink. hey do u no if u can stay at the pub like a b&b?
I’m surprised that no-one has mentioned Cockshutts Lane or Dykes Hall Road
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Spunkie or Fanny Barks.
Surely, famous COCKFOSTERS???
“This train terminates at cockfosters…”
there’s a place i know when i went to Burnley called Clitheroe, me and a friend got a picture by the sign and covering up the E,
Try this: Paradise passage – in Islington, London.
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Here in Texas, we’ve town named Dickinson . . . Not far from Hitchcock.
What about Wankdorf in Switzerland? I passed turnoffs to it, and thought it was hilarious.
However, the swiss germans (or any germans for that matter) would pronounce wank vunk so it sort of makes it not very funny.
don’t forget big bone lick, KY and beaver lick, KY.
Reminds me of the old Typhoo tea advert – “Typhoo puts the T in Britain”. But if Typhoo put the T in Britain, who put the c*nt in Scunthorpe?
They’re all c*nts in Scunthorpe!
Does Brown Wiily not count. It is the tallest peak in Cornwall
Try Younghusband Peninsula, SA, Australia At the mouth of the Murray River it is over 100 km long -36.291072° 139.711605° to -35.565530° 138.896017° About 1 km wide
In the royal mail sortation book there used to be place in Hampshire called SLUTS HOLE. If I remember correctly it used to circulate to Basingstoke. Since removed
Nice to see some of my favourites in there. One I’m rather fond of is Cocking in Sussex. Full of little signs like “Cocking Church”.
Another name that conjures a wonderful mental image is Curry Mallet, which I think is near Bristol somewhere.
There is a place called ‘Andrews Knob’ in between Bollington and Rainow in Cheshire. O how we laughed.
How about Bald Knob, Arkansas. 35°18′42″N 91°34′12″W
Near where I live in Somerset there is a road called Tithill Lane. Unfortunately some juvenile has stolen the streetsign..