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let_nova
13-11-09, 07:55 PM
on my travels yesteday to collect my sport i came across a couple of funny place names.

magieknockater (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=maggieknockater&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl)
knockando (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=knockando&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl)

lol and another near me is benderloch (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=knockando&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl)

what random places you been to?

:thumb:

Cle
13-11-09, 07:56 PM
you still on about maggieknockater lol did you pass Bonar Bridge ? lol

Hobbit
13-11-09, 07:59 PM
We have a place called Drift down here

Benn
13-11-09, 08:01 PM
Tiddlywinks the village right next to combe.
Worlds end is about 5miles from me...

Spudly
13-11-09, 08:05 PM
There is a place near me calle 'The Land of Nod' lol

Rob
13-11-09, 08:11 PM
There is a place near me calle 'The Land of Nod' lol

i was just going to say that lol

mowgli
13-11-09, 08:16 PM
there is a place near kidderminster called

Bell End,

my favourite is a place near oswestry called Knockin.. the village stores is called 'the Knockin Shop'

auzzy-b
13-11-09, 08:17 PM
Theres always the welsh town:-
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch:tard: lol

Spudly
13-11-09, 08:17 PM
i was just going to say that lol



Ner ner too slow :p

hendrix
13-11-09, 08:18 PM
theres a road not too far from here called Fanny Hands Lane iirc

CoolTiger
13-11-09, 08:18 PM
Tiddlywinks the village right next to combe.
Worlds end is about 5miles from me... wrong the end of the world is about 3miles from me
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_End,_Wrexham

auzzy-b
13-11-09, 08:24 PM
there is a place near kidderminster called

Bell End,

I was on the phone to somebody not long ago to arrange viewing his car and when he gave me his adress it was Bell End road/avenue or something.. i had to laughlol

novaload1992
13-11-09, 08:27 PM
I was on the phone to somebody not long ago to arrange viewing his car and when he gave me his adress it was Bell End road/avenue or something.. i had to laughlol

lol

mowgli
13-11-09, 08:34 PM
knock yourself out with these

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=&vps=5&jsv=187d&sll=52.494487,-1.959343&sspn=0.085074,0.219383&ie=UTF8&geocode=Fb-BPQMd8lPy_w&split=0

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=&vps=3&jsv=187d&sll=52.398858,-2.085686&sspn=0.090496,0.219383&ie=UTF8&geocode=FWzQIAMdCeHg_w&split=0

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=&vps=2&jsv=187d&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=11.2274,28.081055&ie=UTF8&cd=1&split=0&geocode=FVFsHwMdwing_w

Cle
13-11-09, 08:35 PM
theres a road i was on when in canda on hoilday called Jingle pot road lol

djbrowney
13-11-09, 08:43 PM
Road called bell end on the way to santa pod lol

let_nova
13-11-09, 08:45 PM
browney.... go to sleep

mowgli
13-11-09, 08:45 PM
Road called bell end on the way to santa pod lol

it figures.........

DaftJohns_Mate
13-11-09, 09:06 PM
I worked in a town in the borders called Ecclefechan! :)

Wullie.

Cle
13-11-09, 09:07 PM
????? there use to be a coffee chop around the corner where i lived called that lol

let_nova
13-11-09, 09:12 PM
Ecclefechan

been there.

mowgli
13-11-09, 09:13 PM
i've been to Borris in Ossiry, but i've never been to Meath.... (irish in joke)

bmw156
13-11-09, 09:21 PM
there is a place called fingringhoe or something along those lines lol

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

mowgli
13-11-09, 09:24 PM
there is a place called fingringhoe or something along those lines lol

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl



its close, but no monica lewinsky click (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=&vps=1&jsv=187d&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=11.2274,28.081055&ie=UTF8&geocode=FV0WFwMdkWgOAA&split=0)

bmw156
13-11-09, 09:25 PM
ok my link failed and so does yours mowgli

mowgli
13-11-09, 09:27 PM
Oh, sod it, its fingringhoe

Benn
13-11-09, 09:27 PM
wrong the end of the world is about 3miles from me
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_End,_Wrexham

I didn't say that tho....

Rysee
13-11-09, 09:32 PM
there is a place near kidderminster called

Bell End,

my favourite is a place near oswestry called Knockin.. the village stores is called 'the Knockin Shop'

Keep meaning to take a nice lady to Knockin in the Nova just for the japes

Bobminda
13-11-09, 09:36 PM
Bloke at work always says have you been to

The cock inn
Tillit
herts


Fingerinhoe is not that far from melol

mowgli
13-11-09, 09:44 PM
The cock inn
Tillit
herts


totally made up, i'm afraid

Bobminda
13-11-09, 09:45 PM
totally made up, i'm afraid

yeah of course

but still funny lol

let_nova
13-11-09, 09:47 PM
http://www.cockpub.co.uk/
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=tillit&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl