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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Profile	Posted by	Options	Post Date
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 1,336 Send Message	Mayfield	Report	13 May 2013 19:32
	Yes George and it's right next door to Badgers Mount :-D Mayfield
	Researching: Moribus facit homo,
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1,789 Send Message	Diamonds-R-A-Girls-Best-Friend	Report	13 May 2013 19:13
	Great Bradley in Suffolk is not a funny village name but when someone put Wiggins after the name it amused me :-D
	Researching: The Family
Member Since: October 2012 Posts: 11,197 Send Message	GinN	Report	13 May 2013 18:46
	A village near Durham is called Pity Me. As I went through on a bus, I often wondered why!
	Researching: Anything and everything that takes my fancy.
Member Since: August 2009 Posts: 45,776 Send Message	BarbinSGlos	Report	13 May 2013 18:22
	It cant even be called a Hamlet just a few rows of cottages in Yatton Kynell, Chippenham Called Tiddlywinks. How cute is that :-D
	Researching:
Member Since: December 2008 Posts: 17,005 Send Message	GeordiePride	Report	13 May 2013 18:13
	Two areas in Newcastle called LONGBENTON and TWO BALL LONNEN GP
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	13 May 2013 18:09
	http://www.anglotopia.net/ultimate-list-of-funny-british-place-names/
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 2,387 Send Message	George	Report	13 May 2013 18:08
	There's a village in south east London called Pratts Bottom :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D it used to be in Kent but boundaries have since been moved, it's not far from Biggin Hill. George :-) :-)
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 7,932 Send Message	~``Jude``~	Report	13 May 2013 18:01
	Upper Dicker and Lower Dicker in West Sussex....l went to one of them at a bingo evening when l was a littlie:))....a good few yrs ago too...lol Also Solomons Tump Glouc, passed the signloads of times:)) jude :-)
	Researching: Ukraine...
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 2,668 Send Message	Cooper	Report	13 May 2013 17:54
	We saw a sign for Six Mile Bottom, on the way to Cambridge :-D
	Researching: Helm Tappenden, Kitchen/Kitchin,(London) Cantwell (southern Ireland)
Member Since: December 2009 Posts: 87 Send Message	Valerie	Report	13 May 2013 17:50
Member Since: December 2009 Posts: 87 Send Message	have been travelling recently and have been struck by some signposts i have seen with unusual/funny village names. my current favourites are ryme intrinsica dorset, up sydling dorset, duntisbourne leer gloucestershire and tadpole bridge on the oxfordshire/berkshire borders that is also on the thames. would love to hear of any others val :-)