I’ve started doing something on my long training rides - collecting silly place names.
Last week I went to a place called Bunny.
Today I’ve just ridden to Leek and back. A jolly nice ride too, even if Staffordshire was not as expected(*) and the bottom of the Peak District was a bit bumpy like.
Does anyone else have silly place names that don’t sound like place names that they ride to?
Joe
(*)Staffordshire is famous for canals. I figure it shouldn’t be so darn hilly. It isn’t a good thing to have in the middle of a rather long ride.
You realize there are Americans posting here, right? Man, we got the silly place names. I haven’t ridden there, but I have been through Toad Suck Arkansas.
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Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
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“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” - Thomas Paine
There are two villages near Eastbourne called Upper Dicker and Lower Dicker, it looks like I will have to ride to them now for them to qualify, and there is an area in Friston Forest where I muni alot which up and till recently was called Butchershole Bottom, but then they changed it to Buthershole, the spoil sports.
I remember doing a bus tour that went along the Piddle River and one of the stops was in Tincleton, when I was in the south of England for a week long Ballroom Dance event. There is also Piddlehinton, Puddleton, and Turners Puddle (obviously, Turner was a bad boy).
Also nearby is the Cerne Abbas Giant, you know, the one with the seven foot penis. He might be the source of the Piddle River
And it’s indeed spelled FUCKING. As I come from Austria, I know that they are really having heavy troubles with their road signs. People who visit Fucking steal the road sign with the Village’s name on it, to have it as a souvenier.
But honestly, Fucking doesn’t mean anything in German
Dorking in Surrey, England, has to be on the list. (But English people don’t seem to chuckle … is a dork not a willie over there? … or are they just very good at acting grown up?)