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Valerie

Valerie Report 14 May 2013 08:57

thanks for all the names so far, keep up the good work.

also remember chip shop and moor shop hamlets/villages near tavistock in devon, apparently its where the miners had to shop using the tokens or 'chips' that they were paid with. naturally the shops were run by the mine owners and had much higher prices than the shops in tavistock
val

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 14 May 2013 08:57

Staffy Knot I know Shittington / Shitlington and present day Shillington very well. Just a few miles from me and my kids used to go to school there.

BarneyKent

BarneyKent Report 14 May 2013 08:44

Back of the Brook and Back of Ecton, both in Staffordshire; Barton in the Beans, Leicestershire; Shittington, Bedfordshire , Scratchy Bottom, Dorset.

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 14 May 2013 03:19

There's a place in South Australia named Pitchi Ritchi Pass

http://www.prr.org.au/cms/

Not a strange name really, but the local council are constantly replacing the signs, because some people think it's funny to blank out the first letters of each word.

:-D

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 14 May 2013 03:14

I've looked on maps and can't find this place.... it was someone's address....

Friar's Crutch, London

The mind boggles :-D

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 13 May 2013 22:53

Near me. Vinegar Hill and Nasty

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 13 May 2013 22:27

Shagg, near East Lulworth, Dorset.

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 13 May 2013 22:25

People outside Cardiff seem to find Splott funny-sounding.

Near Walsall there is a place called Bloxwich. Have no idea why that is funny either, but many outside the Midlands are very amused :-S

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 13 May 2013 22:20

on the way to Cornwall used to go through a place called "Indian Kings" - very intriguing

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 13 May 2013 22:19

Splott is in Cardiff - a district :-D

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

GinN

GinN Report 13 May 2013 22:05

I rather like Six Mile Bottom in Cambs.

Researching:
Anything and everything that takes my fancy.

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 13 May 2013 22:05

Lower Peover used to be about halfway between Wolverhampton and Preston on old road before M6 was built. And Pidley near St Ives in Cambs.

Between Elstree and Potters Bar there is a Trotters Bottom. I was driving that way one morning to work, and radio announcer on LBC said "Car Reg No B432DUV has phoned it to say he is stuck in a traffic jam in Trotters Bottom near Cuffley" Fortunately queue was in other direction to me, so I and quite a few drivers gave the poor so and so a hoot and a wave as we sailed past his jam :-D

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 13 May 2013 22:04

Ham is near Sandwich in Kent.

Gwyn

GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 13 May 2013 21:52

One of my favourites is Auchenshuggle (East End of Glasgow)

Researching:
Brannan/ McGrath/ Kerr/ Jordan/ Finnigan NI and Free State. Devlin/ Lamont / Lamond/ Fyfe/ Pollock/ Johnston/Struthers/ Smith. Scotland. Avi: Hand Fasting or Tying The Knot. Daughters wedding 2016

Kim Annette

Kim Annette Report 13 May 2013 21:46

GeordieinNorfolk.....
one of my relatives stated they came from Pity Me.... i thought it was a typo..... :-D

McB

McB Report 13 May 2013 20:24

Splott

Near Cardiff

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 13 May 2013 20:22

Worlds End is in Hampshire

Gwyn

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 13 May 2013 20:17

Hi Barry, yep West Country and I went to a dance at the Colerne camp in the 60,s I think I had one too many tipples too LOL. The lads were lovely and I do remember that quite clearly :-D :-D

Researching:

Robert

Robert Report 13 May 2013 20:07

The village of No Place in County Durham.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 13 May 2013 20:01

One of my grans was brought up in Pennycomequick in Devon

Researching:
Gg gran Amelia - Suffolk side

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