Some very interesting road sign & village names!

[Yellow Fang]

When I was cycling LEJOG, I saw a road sign in Shropshire pointing to Great Ness. While I was out on a club training ride between Wantage and Newbury, I passed a sign for Halfway. I had been rather hoping it was a bit more than that.

 

[Chrisz]

Funny you mention that... rode through it a little while back

LOL I know that sign well - used to ride past it on a regular basis when I was living in Folkestone and going to Uni in Canterbury

 

[Arch]

When I was cycling LEJOG, I saw a road sign in Shropshire pointing to Great Ness. While I was out on a club training ride between Wantage and Newbury, I passed a sign for Halfway. I had been rather hoping it was a bit more than that.

Oh, I rode from Wantage to Newbury once (I think it was Wantage anyway) - straight up the hill to the Ridgeway, and then what felt like downhill all the way into Newbury, lovely!

 

[atbman]

Then there's Upper Piddle and Lower Piddle and the extremely painfully named Wyre Piddle

 

[PaulB]

I always liked Fannybush Lane in Consett, Co. Durham and there's a place near me called Pisser Clough. Has anyone mentioned Rest and be Thankfull?

 

[Paulus]

There is a village called Ugley in Essex.

 

[Cullin]

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/hall/8701/townname.htm

 

[stedlocks]

There is a village called Ugley in Essex.

and they have a 'Ugley Womens Institute'..........





There is a place near me called Squitmore Springs and Munchers Green....I quite like 'Sheep Dip'

 

[Yellow Fang]

Oh, I rode from Wantage to Newbury once (I think it was Wantage anyway) - straight up the hill to the Ridgeway, and then what felt like downhill all the way into Newbury, lovely!

Well done. It's not an easy hill.

 

[HLaB]

I cycled to Blairingone at the week end, Fife is full of interestingly named villages and some not so interesting more infamous.

 

[Paulus]

There also the Slaughters, upper and lower in the Cotswolds.

 

[LLB]

There also the Slaughters, upper and lower in the Cotswolds.

Not 10 miles from my town.

We have Dog Bark Lane, Quat Goose Lane, Bouncers lane and Kidnappers Lane in Cheltenham.

 

[Auntie Helen]

My grandmother used to live in Six Mile Bottom near Newmarket

 

[Chromatic]

There's a Three Cocks Lane in Gloucester.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

There's a place in Cornwall called "Penny come Quick", I never found out if it was true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is true, but it's in Devon, near Tavistock, and it's all one word.