Funny place names

No doubt this has been done before but I can't resist. Here is a list of funny place names from a British newspaper. Can you add to it (from anywhere in the world)?

Splat (Cornwall)
Pity Me (Co. Durham)
Pennycomequick (Devon)
Nob End (South Lancashire)
Great Snoring (Norfolk)
Thong (Kent)
Piddle River (Dorset)
Sandy Balls (New Forest)
Wideopen (Newcastle)
Great Cockup (Lake District)
Twatt (Orkney)
Crapstone (Devon)
Slack Bottom (West Yorkshire)
No Place (Co. Durham)
Lickey End (West Midlands)
Hackballscross (Co. Louth)
Horneyman (Kent)
Fryup (North Yorkshire)

Pity Me is near where I was brought up; it's from the French Petit Mer - there's a pond there. I like all the names with piddle in them in Dorset, but it is a bit childish of me.

Here are a few from Germany:

Ekel
Witzwort
Affendorf
Blasdorf
Rammelburg
Motzen
Lust
Feucht
Faulebutter
Fickingen
Lieblos
Leichendorf
Katzenhirn
Brechen
Busendorf
Wixhausen
Mueckenloch
Drogen
Pissen
Elend
Hodenhagen
Fetterstrich
Sexau

i remember a bus deribing past me whehn i was in sheffield, which had PENISton written as destination on the front

i think there is also a place called sCUNThorpe somewhere in england

how did such place names come into existence? i mean places like fryup and redcar and pity me for example.

#4 -- My guess is folk etymology in most cases, reshaping a place name whose significance was no longer apparent into words that were at least familiar. There's a Smackover in Arkansas that originated as Chemin Couvert. In some cases, the funny meaning originated lafter the name ws well established, as with the Piddle River or Great Cockup.

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this may interest some... world of words place names... mathilde, I've already explained pity me. See also this site which explains a lot of names.

Redcar (pronounced Redkuh) is almost certainly Viking and as I recall means reed-marsh - the area round there has several places that suggest the poor quality of the soil.

The north-east generally has some interesting names, not least because it is common to find very similar names for places quite close by. Three or four miles from where I was brought up there are two places, one called Heughall and one called Houghall. These were however pronounced Yuffall and Hoffal. Similarly there is Hetton-le-hole, Hetton-le-Hill and Hutton-le-Hole, all very close to each other.

The South West, where I now live, is also rich in beautiful Latin-ish names; two of the best are Huish Episcopi and Ryme Intrinseca. I'd love to live in either. Ryme Intrinseca refers to the fact that the land was 'intrinsic' to the estate of the Ryme family; Episcopi must mean it is part of the see but I'm not sure beyond that.

Nigel Reese (irritating man on the radio a lot) did a book of these...

My two favourites in Germany:

Sommerloch
Linsengericht

I've been to Elend, it was quite nice really, there's a village down the road from Elend called Sorge, the people of the Harz mountains must be a bit of a pessimistic bunch

My contribution - 2 british hills:
Lord Hereford's knob
Brown Willy

I think Shangrila is funny too. Originally named Zhongdian, changed to Shangrila because the Chinese government said they found the real Shangrila in Zhongdian!

In Pennsylvania, there are 2 towns called "Blue Balls) and the other Intercourse. If places are named after significant events in the area ???????

There is a city in Oregon State called "Boring". Indeed.

I am reminded of a TV quiz show in Britian called, "QI". The host, Stephen Fry, asked a question, "What is the most boring place in England?". The answer escapes me.

Since I'm in the US, I've been getting my fix on You Tube. It's a pity that "QI" isn't airing here.

I found the answer!

The Wiki knows:

The most boring place in Great Britain is a field outside Ousefleet, near Scunthorpe, according to the Ordnance Survey map. It is the blankest square kilometre in the country, with only part of an electricity pylon in it.

Here is the Tangent: Charles Dickens despised Chelmsford, describing it as "the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth." He also invented the word 'boredom'.

There are lots of places with funny names in the Czech Rep. My favourite are:

Hrdlorezy (Cut-Throats)
Sterboholy (Shaveholes)
Hrob (The Grave)
Picin (Pussyville)
Ritka (Little Ass)
Odrepsy (Scrapedogs)
Veltrusy (Bigdung)

There's a Boring in Maryland also, and an Accident.

#14 -- But hasn't that place now ceased to be uninteresting, by virtue of its claiming the title of the least interesting place in Britain? They should put a plaque up, presumably on the part of the pylon that's in the appropiate acre.

#12 -- It's Blue Ball, singular, after an inn sign.

Meet a eastern European on a train from a town named Trash

THere is a town in Italy, I think it is in Umbria, called "Bastardo".

#19
Hrdlorezy and Sterboholy are Prague districts, the others are towns.

Lickey End reminds me of an Irish friend's home town, Bally Licky.

A few more from Germany:

Kotzen
Böß-Gesäß
Sonnschied
Schweinschied
Eulenbis
Hundeluft
Busenbach
Sterbfritz

Cornwall does remarkably well here - Splat, Brown Willy, another Pityme (sic, where they make excellent beer), Pennycomequick, which is in Plymouth, comes from the Cornish (for etemologies of which, seehere), and my favourite, London Apprentice, which is is a hamlet near St Austell.

Idle (Bradford, Yorkshire) with its famous 'Idle working mans club'

David

Tomaycalla, name of some different places in Peru, meaning "drink and shut up"

Muggenbeet (Mosquito bite) in The Netherlands
Gammel (ramshackle) in Belgium

and a tiny village in The Netherlands called Boenderpas, which is a corruption of the French bon repas, history has it that Napoleon spent the night there on his way east ...