Misleading place names

[MK Shrimper]

Just started work on a project in Manchester, and one of the stations involved is the delighfully named "Flowery Field".

So, I googled said name, expecting a picturesque little village, full of cuddly northerners and I got....

In this area there are many incidents of anti-social behaviour. The most serious known is the gang war between The teenagers of Dukinfield and Newton which Flowery Field is a part of.

Sounds more like South Central LA :stunned:

Anyone know of anywhere else so badly named?

 

[McNasty]

Milton Keynes.

Not built by the poet and no-one is "Keyne" to go there. :tease:

 

[Napster]

Hell in Norway is quite picturesque

http://exviking.net/man/hell.htm

 

[MK Shrimper]

Milton Keynes.

Not built by the poet and no-one is "Keyne" to go there. :tease:

:raspberry:

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

I thought MK was appropriately named .. using just the initials it sounds a bit like mucky :winking:

 

[londonblue]

How about "Great" Wakering?

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

How about "Great" Wakering?

Ooh bitchy .. Great Wakering is very nice

 

[londonblue]

Ooh bitchy .. Great Wakering is very nice

Even if you're correct (you might be, I haven't been there for years) you didn't call it "great" did you!

:winking:

(On another positive note it seems SZ is now working properly in my PC again - I can quote and use smilies!)

 

[C C Csiders]

There's a little Indian village situated in South West London called Mango Putney.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Colchester - translates literally from the ancient Latin as whata****inginbred********.

 

[pickledseal]

Foulness really isn't *that* bad!

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

There is a village called TILLY here and Tilly doesnt even live there(as far as i know).

 

[Bluesmanager]

Dalig un Straden (or similar) in Norway. No ****ing Daleks in it!

Also, The Shire and Mordor. Both in/around London (so no, The Shire isn't green fields and midget gardners, although Mordor may still be a ********, just without the volcano).

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

A hill rather than a place, but Brown willy is actually a tor on Bodmin Moor, and not anywhere near Brighton

 

[Mad Cyril]

Shoeburyness.

Most of the residents wear cheap trainers rather than smart brogues or court shoes.

 

[Firestorm]

Grimsby and Scunthorpe are the most appropriate
Never fancied visiting Pratts bottom for some reason

 

[maninasuitcase]

Supermarine near Swindon, is it that much better than plain old Marine?

 

[londonblue]

There's a road near me called Faggots Close...I've never ventured in there...

 

[southend4ever]

Southend...

Gives you the impression we may be inhabited with southern folk but a more appropriate name may be 'Polend' or we could just twin with Poland itself...