If it's Friday it must be Intercourse
I've done some travelling. I'm UK born and bred but somehow unofficially became a US resident for extended periods living in and around Washington DC, also long treks through Europe for work and pleasure has seen me rocking up in an envious list of odd places in equally odd company.
The most notable thing, to me at least, is the, at first sight, truly breathtaking place names.
This really came to a head after a few visits to Lancaster County, PA. The title of this piece is a direct quote from me on one of those trips before I collapsed in paroxysmal laughter, much to the amusement of my travel mate. NHS Although Blue Ball just to the north of Intercourse, somewhere you go if you can't get to Intercourse I assume, remains my favourite.
Of course there are many slightly rude place names in the world. Here are just some of them…..
Just for reference, since I am from the United Kingdom, here is a supposedly definitive list of rude and funny UK place names:
RUDE AND FUNNY LONDON STREET AND PLACE NAMES
Back Passage, London
Mincing Lane, London
Mudchute, London
Percy Passage, London
Swallow Passage, London
Trump Street, London
Cumming Street, London
Cock Foster, London
Dick Turpin Lane, London
Cock Hill, London
Titley Close, London
Cockbush Avenue, London
RUDE AND FUNNY ENGLISH VILLAGE AND PLACE NAMES IN ENGLAND</div><div>Acock’s Green, Worcestershire, UK</div><div>Babes Well, Durham, UK</div><div>Bachelors Bump, Essex, UK</div><div>Backside Lane, Oxfordshire</div><div>Balls Green, Kent, England</div><div>Balls Cross, WestSussex</div><div>Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK</div><div>Barking, Essex</div><div>Beaver Close, Surrey</div><div>Bedlam Bottom, Hampshire, UK</div><div>Beef Lane, Oxfordshire</div><div>Beer, Devon, UK</div><div>Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime</div><div>Bell End near Lickey End</div><div>Bishops Itchington, Staffs, UK</div><div>Bitchfield, Lincolnshire</div><div>Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK</div><div>Booty Lane, NorthYorkshire</div><div>Bottoms Fold, Lancashire</div><div>Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK</div><div>Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK</div><div>Bushygap, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Catholes, Cumbria</div><div>Catsgore, Somerset, UK</div><div>Charles Bottom, Devon, UK</div><div>Clap Hill, village in Kent, UK</div><div>Clay Bottom, Bristol, UK</div><div>Cock Alley, Calow, UK</div><div>Cock Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK</div><div>Cock Green, nr Braintree</div><div>Cock Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK</div><div>Cock Law, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk</div><div>Cockermouth, Cumbria</div><div>Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK</div><div>Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK</div><div>Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK</div><div>Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK</div><div>Cockplay, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Cocks, Cornwall</div><div>Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire</div><div>Cockshot, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK</div><div>Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK</div><div>Coldwind, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Crackington Haven, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Crapstone, Devon</div><div>Crotch Crescent, Oxford</div><div>Deans Bottom, Kent, UK</div><div>Devil’s Lapful, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Dicks Mount, Suffolk</div><div>Drinkstone, Suffolk, UK</div><div>Faggot, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Fanny Barks, Durham, UK</div><div>Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire</div><div>Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire</div><div>Feltham Close, Hampshire</div><div>Feltwell, Norfolk</div><div>Fingringhoe, Essex</div><div>Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Friars Entry, Oxfordshire</div><div>Fruitfall Cove, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside</div><div>Gay Street, Sussex. UK</div><div>Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Giggleswick, Staincliffe, Nth. Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK</div><div>Gravelly Bottom Road, nr Langley Heath, Kent, UK</div><div>Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK</div><div>Great Horwood, Bucks, UK</div><div>Great Tosson, Northumberland</div><div>Grope Lane, Shropshire</div><div>Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire, UK</div><div>Happy Bottom, Dorset</div><div>Helstone, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Hole Bottom, Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire</div><div>Holly Bush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK</div><div>Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire</div><div>Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire</div><div>Hooker Road, Norwich</div><div>Horncastle, Linconshire</div><div>Horneyman, Kent, UK</div><div>Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, UK</div><div>Horwood, Devon, UK</div><div>Jeffries Passage, Surrey</div><div>Jolly’s Bottom, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Juggs Close, EastSussex</div><div>Knockerdown, Derbyshire, UK</div><div>Lacock, Wiltshire</div><div>Letch Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds, UK</div><div>Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Lickers Lane, Merseyside</div><div>Lickey End, Worcestershire, UK</div><div>Lickfold, West Sussex</div><div>Little Horwood, Bucks, UK</div><div>Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire</div><div>Long Lover Lane, Halifax</div><div>Lower Swell, Gloucestershire</div><div>Menlove Avenue, Liverpool</div><div>Minge Lane, Worcestershire</div><div>Moisty Lane, Staffordshire</div><div>Nether Wallop, Hampshire</div><div>Nob End, South Lancashire, UK</div><div>Nork Rise, Surrey</div><div>North Piddle, Worcestershire</div><div>Ogle Close, Merseyside</div><div>Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire</div><div>Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire</div><div>Over Peover, Cheshire, UK</div><div>Pant, Shropshire</div><div>Penistone, Sth Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Piddle River, Dorset, UK</div><div>Pork Lane, Essex</div><div>Pratt’s Bottom, Kent</div><div>Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire</div><div>Pump Alley, Middlesex</div><div>Ram Alley, Wiltshire, UK</div><div>Ramsbottom, Lancs, UK</div><div>Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire</div><div>Sandy Balls, Hampshire</div><div>Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK</div><div>Shaggs, Dorset, UK</div><div>Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire</div><div>Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Shitterton, Dorset</div><div>Shittington,, Bedfordshire, UK</div><div>Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK</div><div>Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Slag Lane, Merseyside</div><div>Slip End, Beds, UK</div><div>Slippery Lane, Staffordshire</div><div>Snatchup, Hertfordshire</div><div>Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.</div><div>Spitalin the Street, Lincolnshire</div><div>Splatt, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Staines, Surrey</div><div>Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK</div><div>Swell, Somerset</div><div>
The Blind Fiddler, Cornwall, UK</div><div>
The Bush, Buckinghamshire</div><div>
The Furry, Cornwall</div><div>
The Knob, Oxfordshire</div><div>
Thong, Kent</div><div>
Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire</div><div>
Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK</div><div>
Titlington Mount, Northumberland</div><div>
Titty Hill, Sussex, UK</div><div>
Titty Ho, Northamptonshire</div><div>
Tosside, Lancashire</div><div>
Turkey Cock Lane, Colchester, Essex, UK</div><div>
Ugley, Essex</div><div>Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK</div><div>
Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK
Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker, East Sussex, UK
Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wash Dyke, Norfolk, UK
Weedon Lois, Northampton
Weedon, in the Parish of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire, UK
Weeford, Staffordshire, UK
Wet Rain, Yorkshire, UK
Wetwang, East Yorkshire
WhamBottomLane, Lancashire
Wideopen, Newcastle, UK
Willey, Warwickshire
Winkle Street, Southampton
Wormegay, Norfolk, UK
Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire
RUDE AND FUNNY PLACE NAMES IN SCOTLAND
Ardfork, Aberdeenshire
Ardgay, Ross & Cromarty, UK
Assloss, Ayrshire, Scotland
Backside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Backside, Banffshire, Scotland
Ballownie, Angus, UK
Blackdikes, Angus
Bladda, Paisley
Forest Dyke Road, Lanarkshire
Boghead, Ayrshire
Boysack, Angus, Scot.
Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire Lapp
Butt of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Cock of Arran, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK
Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
Dick Court, Lanarkshire
East Breast, Inverclyde
Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty, UK
Fattiehead, Banffshire, Scotland
Hillo’ManyStanes, Scotland
Inchbare, Angus, uk
Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
Inchmore, Aberdeenshire
Merkins Avenue, West Dunbartonshire
Stripeside, Banffshire, UK
Tarty, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland, uk
Twatt, Orkney
RUDE AND FUNNY Welsh PLACE NAMES
Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Cat’s Ash, Monmouthshire, Wales
Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
Penisarwaen, village in Gwynedd, UK
Sodom, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Splott, Cardiff, Wales
St.Mellons, Cardiff
Stop-and-Call, Pembrokeshire, UK
Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Three Cocks, Breconshire, Wales, UK
The most notable thing, to me at least, is the, at first sight, truly breathtaking place names.
This really came to a head after a few visits to Lancaster County, PA. The title of this piece is a direct quote from me on one of those trips before I collapsed in paroxysmal laughter, much to the amusement of my travel mate. NHS Although Blue Ball just to the north of Intercourse, somewhere you go if you can't get to Intercourse I assume, remains my favourite.
Of course there are many slightly rude place names in the world. Here are just some of them…..
Just for reference, since I am from the United Kingdom, here is a supposedly definitive list of rude and funny UK place names:
RUDE AND FUNNY LONDON STREET AND PLACE NAMES
Back Passage, London
Mincing Lane, London
Mudchute, London
Percy Passage, London
Swallow Passage, London
Trump Street, London
Cumming Street, London
Cock Foster, London
Dick Turpin Lane, London
Cock Hill, London
Titley Close, London
Cockbush Avenue, London
RUDE AND FUNNY ENGLISH VILLAGE AND PLACE NAMES IN ENGLAND</div><div>Acock’s Green, Worcestershire, UK</div><div>Babes Well, Durham, UK</div><div>Bachelors Bump, Essex, UK</div><div>Backside Lane, Oxfordshire</div><div>Balls Green, Kent, England</div><div>Balls Cross, WestSussex</div><div>Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK</div><div>Barking, Essex</div><div>Beaver Close, Surrey</div><div>Bedlam Bottom, Hampshire, UK</div><div>Beef Lane, Oxfordshire</div><div>Beer, Devon, UK</div><div>Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime</div><div>Bell End near Lickey End</div><div>Bishops Itchington, Staffs, UK</div><div>Bitchfield, Lincolnshire</div><div>Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK</div><div>Booty Lane, NorthYorkshire</div><div>Bottoms Fold, Lancashire</div><div>Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK</div><div>Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK</div><div>Bushygap, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Catholes, Cumbria</div><div>Catsgore, Somerset, UK</div><div>Charles Bottom, Devon, UK</div><div>Clap Hill, village in Kent, UK</div><div>Clay Bottom, Bristol, UK</div><div>Cock Alley, Calow, UK</div><div>Cock Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK</div><div>Cock Green, nr Braintree</div><div>Cock Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK</div><div>Cock Law, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk</div><div>Cockermouth, Cumbria</div><div>Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK</div><div>Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK</div><div>Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK</div><div>Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK</div><div>Cockplay, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Cocks, Cornwall</div><div>Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire</div><div>Cockshot, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK</div><div>Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK</div><div>Coldwind, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Crackington Haven, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Crapstone, Devon</div><div>Crotch Crescent, Oxford</div><div>Deans Bottom, Kent, UK</div><div>Devil’s Lapful, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Dicks Mount, Suffolk</div><div>Drinkstone, Suffolk, UK</div><div>Faggot, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Fanny Barks, Durham, UK</div><div>Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire</div><div>Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire</div><div>Feltham Close, Hampshire</div><div>Feltwell, Norfolk</div><div>Fingringhoe, Essex</div><div>Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Friars Entry, Oxfordshire</div><div>Fruitfall Cove, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside</div><div>Gay Street, Sussex. UK</div><div>Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Giggleswick, Staincliffe, Nth. Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK</div><div>Gravelly Bottom Road, nr Langley Heath, Kent, UK</div><div>Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK</div><div>Great Horwood, Bucks, UK</div><div>Great Tosson, Northumberland</div><div>Grope Lane, Shropshire</div><div>Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire, UK</div><div>Happy Bottom, Dorset</div><div>Helstone, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Hole Bottom, Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire</div><div>Holly Bush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK</div><div>Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire</div><div>Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire</div><div>Hooker Road, Norwich</div><div>Horncastle, Linconshire</div><div>Horneyman, Kent, UK</div><div>Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, UK</div><div>Horwood, Devon, UK</div><div>Jeffries Passage, Surrey</div><div>Jolly’s Bottom, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Juggs Close, EastSussex</div><div>Knockerdown, Derbyshire, UK</div><div>Lacock, Wiltshire</div><div>Letch Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds, UK</div><div>Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK</div><div>Lickers Lane, Merseyside</div><div>Lickey End, Worcestershire, UK</div><div>Lickfold, West Sussex</div><div>Little Horwood, Bucks, UK</div><div>Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire</div><div>Long Lover Lane, Halifax</div><div>Lower Swell, Gloucestershire</div><div>Menlove Avenue, Liverpool</div><div>Minge Lane, Worcestershire</div><div>Moisty Lane, Staffordshire</div><div>Nether Wallop, Hampshire</div><div>Nob End, South Lancashire, UK</div><div>Nork Rise, Surrey</div><div>North Piddle, Worcestershire</div><div>Ogle Close, Merseyside</div><div>Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire</div><div>Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire</div><div>Over Peover, Cheshire, UK</div><div>Pant, Shropshire</div><div>Penistone, Sth Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Piddle River, Dorset, UK</div><div>Pork Lane, Essex</div><div>Pratt’s Bottom, Kent</div><div>Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire</div><div>Pump Alley, Middlesex</div><div>Ram Alley, Wiltshire, UK</div><div>Ramsbottom, Lancs, UK</div><div>Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire</div><div>Sandy Balls, Hampshire</div><div>Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK</div><div>Shaggs, Dorset, UK</div><div>Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire</div><div>Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Shitterton, Dorset</div><div>Shittington,, Bedfordshire, UK</div><div>Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK</div><div>Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK</div><div>Slag Lane, Merseyside</div><div>Slip End, Beds, UK</div><div>Slippery Lane, Staffordshire</div><div>Snatchup, Hertfordshire</div><div>Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.</div><div>Spitalin the Street, Lincolnshire</div><div>Splatt, Cornwall, UK</div><div>Staines, Surrey</div><div>Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK</div><div>Swell, Somerset</div><div>
The Blind Fiddler, Cornwall, UK</div><div>
The Bush, Buckinghamshire</div><div>
The Furry, Cornwall</div><div>
The Knob, Oxfordshire</div><div>
Thong, Kent</div><div>
Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire</div><div>
Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK</div><div>
Titlington Mount, Northumberland</div><div>
Titty Hill, Sussex, UK</div><div>
Titty Ho, Northamptonshire</div><div>
Tosside, Lancashire</div><div>
Turkey Cock Lane, Colchester, Essex, UK</div><div>
Ugley, Essex</div><div>Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK</div><div>
Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK
Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker, East Sussex, UK
Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wash Dyke, Norfolk, UK
Weedon Lois, Northampton
Weedon, in the Parish of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire, UK
Weeford, Staffordshire, UK
Wet Rain, Yorkshire, UK
Wetwang, East Yorkshire
WhamBottomLane, Lancashire
Wideopen, Newcastle, UK
Willey, Warwickshire
Winkle Street, Southampton
Wormegay, Norfolk, UK
Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire
RUDE AND FUNNY PLACE NAMES IN SCOTLAND
Ardfork, Aberdeenshire
Ardgay, Ross & Cromarty, UK
Assloss, Ayrshire, Scotland
Backside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Backside, Banffshire, Scotland
Ballownie, Angus, UK
Blackdikes, Angus
Bladda, Paisley
Forest Dyke Road, Lanarkshire
Boghead, Ayrshire
Boysack, Angus, Scot.
Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire Lapp
Butt of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Cock of Arran, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK
Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
Dick Court, Lanarkshire
East Breast, Inverclyde
Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty, UK
Fattiehead, Banffshire, Scotland
Hillo’ManyStanes, Scotland
Inchbare, Angus, uk
Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
Inchmore, Aberdeenshire
Merkins Avenue, West Dunbartonshire
Stripeside, Banffshire, UK
Tarty, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland, uk
Twatt, Orkney
RUDE AND FUNNY Welsh PLACE NAMES
Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Cat’s Ash, Monmouthshire, Wales
Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
Penisarwaen, village in Gwynedd, UK
Sodom, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Splott, Cardiff, Wales
St.Mellons, Cardiff
Stop-and-Call, Pembrokeshire, UK
Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Three Cocks, Breconshire, Wales, UK
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