Patreon Only - Weird Place Names
Added 2020-05-16 09:00:03 +0000 UTCWhat's your favourite weirdly named place??
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Oh nooooo! lol
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-21 23:34:16 +0000 UTCI present the intersection of Green Dicks Lane and Head Dyke Road, in the village of Cockerham: https://goo.gl/maps/TockScWXBsSQUuTG9
Dan Croft
2020-05-20 23:19:54 +0000 UTCOh my godddd lol
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-18 14:32:19 +0000 UTCApparently Brits will pay up to Β£100,000 to live on a street with a rude name. Here's a few of my favourites that didn't get a mention. Bell End which is just a couple miles from Lickey End Booty Lane, North Yorkshire Brown Willy, Cornwall Cockplay, Northumberland Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales
Mohegan13
2020-05-17 15:58:22 +0000 UTCThat's a goodie !!
PaulDeBaene
2020-05-17 13:11:32 +0000 UTCLol. Ye', I think stomach bag is usually called a stoma-bag. Not a place you'd want to keep your keys, or anything else for that matter, well, except, erm, stomach matter. Maybe a belly-bag, or maybe 'tourist-tasche' (tourist bag).
Sven Linton
2020-05-17 08:20:30 +0000 UTCCan confirm: Dumb Woman's Lane Rye TN31 6AD Another great Video. I laughed so hard!
Isleworth Times
2020-05-16 23:41:36 +0000 UTCQuite π
Matthew Sylvester
2020-05-16 23:08:24 +0000 UTCThat's incredible!
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 23:05:34 +0000 UTCOh my
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 23:05:14 +0000 UTCThank you!!
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 23:05:10 +0000 UTCI think I went to a cottage on Crotch Lake????
jillian b
2020-05-16 21:57:38 +0000 UTCThere used to be a very rude street name in many English towns, that sadly die out centuries ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane?wprov=sfti1
Matthew Sylvester
2020-05-16 21:44:28 +0000 UTCGreat video. Well done for keeping it together!
Matthew Sylvester
2020-05-16 21:43:22 +0000 UTCAlanna. Thanks for this hilarious video. I was in tears of laughter. Not just the place names, but also your reaction to them. Your presentation is so professional. Keep up the good work!!
Terry Allison
2020-05-16 17:47:25 +0000 UTCThanks for the entertaining video! In Austria we have the infamous village of Fucking. They had to get a theft-proof fixing for the road sign, because it was frequently nicked by tourists. On youtube you can find an old clip of Graham Norton calling the Tourist Board of Austria to enquire if Fucking is any good! (Itβs overrated!!!) And we have some other town names that might sound funny to English speaking visitors, like Windpassing and Rottenegg.
Holger Steinwedel
2020-05-16 14:29:54 +0000 UTCThank you so much! Hope you're keeping safe, too!
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 14:16:12 +0000 UTCI'd love for a food to be named after me!
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 14:16:00 +0000 UTCOh my god lol
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 14:15:00 +0000 UTCI'd love to do Canadian wine & cheese! I don't think I can film much in shops right now (and you wouldn't be able to hear me with my mask on!) But hopefully I can get some supplies on the next big shop. Thank you so much for the support!
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 14:14:16 +0000 UTCThat's true!! Surely that would make it a "stomach bag" although that sounds really gross too lol
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 14:13:13 +0000 UTCHamstreet sounds tasty!
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 14:11:58 +0000 UTCOh not π
Adventures and Naps
2020-05-16 14:11:25 +0000 UTCBattle is where the Battle of Hastings was fought!
Ar558a
2020-05-16 12:51:22 +0000 UTCLove it! I agree that Little Snoring sounds like a very cute place to live. I think I should probably share time between Ugley and Crackpot and that would mean people would know most of the key things about me from where I live!
Ar558a
2020-05-16 12:49:44 +0000 UTCPratts Bottom is in Kent, so is Gnats valley. There is a Hamstreet near Ashford . In West Sussex there is Littlehampton, and of course there is also Hampton Court.
Arthur Gatward
2020-05-16 12:42:32 +0000 UTCYep. ::Wave::
Sven Linton
2020-05-16 11:13:05 +0000 UTCI see we have someone else from Cumbria here ::waves::
Paul Brown
2020-05-16 11:04:27 +0000 UTCThe thing with the fanny pack always got me. It's an American thing, which we call a bum bag, growing up knowing that Americans called it a fanny pack always got me confused because it's always worn round the front and not round the back, where the 'fanny' bum is. 'Slag Lane' may not of come from what the term slag as used today but from the by product of burning coal at high temperatures.
Sven Linton
2020-05-16 10:57:29 +0000 UTCHi, Alanna, that was brilliant and so entertaining, just what we needed on a lockdown Saturday. Place names are so funny. Try to be positive and patient, visas will be processed again and this will be over. All of your Patreons are with you in spirit, you will be back here soon. Have you thought any more about doing a Canadian and English cheese and wine tasting video, that would be great fun. When you can go out you could take us shopping in Canada so we can see how different it is to here. Whatever you do it'll be fun. Looking forward to your next video soon.
Stephen Parker
2020-05-16 10:43:46 +0000 UTCThere is a place near me called 'Cockermouth', it's a small town at the mouth of the river Cocker. Many people find it funny but I've grown up with it, so it looses it's lustre after a while. Here's a couple of interesting words for you. "Expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work, or other type of writing of media." In many English towns and cities you'd find a lane called 'gropec**tlane' or similar spellings such as gropecountelane, etc... it was common to name streets after what went on in them such as Silver Street, Fish Street, Swinegate (pork butcher), etc... Most if not all have changed their names to the likes of Grape Lane or something completely different.
Sven Linton
2020-05-16 10:43:18 +0000 UTCWise words about living for today! I live in Bristol (cockney rhyming slang for "titty") where we have a There And Back Again Lane, that's only about 30 yards long and a dead end. A few miles south of here there's Nempnett Thrubwell, which sounds like it should be rude and had a song written about it. But my all time favourite is the Welsh mountain Twmpa, known as Lord Hereford's Knob in English (which also has a song to go with it).
Dr Philip J Naylor
2020-05-16 10:07:44 +0000 UTCWith Ham where you thinking about Rye, as in the bread Edit. No there is a place called Ham near Sandwich and apparently a sign saying Ham Sandwich
Simon
2020-05-16 09:46:32 +0000 UTCSaint Louis de Ha! Ha! is even more fun to say with a French accent I knew there must be a Beaver one so I found this list https://www.narcity.com/travel/ca/19-weirdest-place-names-in-canada-that-you-wont-believe-actually-exist My favourite place name in UK is Badgers Mount I remember reading in a book a Dad slapping his daughter's fanny. I was shocked
Simon
2020-05-16 09:42:44 +0000 UTCFun video as always. Iβm sure some of those British names have an alternative origin than the current meaning, but hard to think what in most cases. Maybe some where intended to be rude! Pretty sure the town of Sandwich by far predates the food name, as it was the Earl of Sandwich who coined the name for the bread based meals.
Shaun Garratt
2020-05-16 09:35:44 +0000 UTCWow, what a fun video. Very entertaining. 10/10 for this as always. I have never heard of any of them place names but they sure made me laugh lol. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
Stewie Whittaker
2020-05-16 09:29:42 +0000 UTC
