RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 On another thread a discussion ensued about exotic sounding places in the UK. An example is there are one or two places called California. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) There is a suburb of Nuneaton called 'Bermuda'. Probably about as far removed from the real Bermuda as it's possible to get! My paternal grandfather used to work at a colliery there, when Warwickshire had coal mines. Edited March 9, 2020 by 4630 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 And as posted on that other thread in Ayrshire we have Moscow, bit the residents there tell you it is pronounced "cow" as per the animal. Jim 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold snitchthebudgie Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) You can't beat "Queen Camel" (Somerset) Edited March 9, 2020 by snitchthebudgie 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 Isn't that how Americans pronounce it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 I've often thought that Ravenglass sounds like a place in a fantasy novel. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Here in Wales there are many villages that were given Anglicised Biblical names, such as Bethlehem, Nazareth and even Sodom. In fact Bethlehem in Carmarthenshire is a rare example of a small village post office having to re-open after closure due to the thousands of people wanting to post their Christmas cards there to get a Bethlehem post mark. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 30 minutes ago, luckymucklebackit said: And as posted on that other thread in Ayrshire we have Moscow, bit the residents there tell you it is pronounced "cow" as per the animal. Jim They're pronouncing it wrong. The classic advert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17rOl7i55ag Jason 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) Cow should be pronounced 'Coo' and be embarrassed, according to George Stephenson, and I agree with him. A particularly grim council estate in Briton Ferry was called Fairyland. Not so much exotic as having a certain scan to them are Scethrog, a village near Brecon, and Scwrfa, near Tredegar; both sound like infectious diseases. Devon and Cornwall have several, Indian Queens, Cullompton, and Longwoodwidger come to mind. Oi be a long wood widger, 'an oi do widger all the live long day in the long wood, shades of Rambling Sid Rompo, nurdle up your artifacts and loosen your cordwangle. Sometimes oi do be a 'avin of a beer with one of they medium length wood widgers, but oi don' never be 'avin no truck with they short wood widgers. B'ain't natrul, trubble come of et... Best of these is IMHO, Fochrhiw, between Merthyr and Rhymney, a bleak excrescence even on a good day and Siberian in winter, presumably only there to make the residents of those places feel a little better about themselves... Ormskirk. Oswaldtwistle. There are also place names which, while having no other attribute, seem specifically designed to be pronounced in the local accent; I give you Barnsley, trooble at 't mill, lad, and Droitwich, ow do, dooks. And, posh accent perfect for it, Pangbourne, don't y'know, what, Carruthers. Take that plum out of your mouth, chinless! Pennsylvania is just outside Bath, and also a part of the Llanederyn Estate in Cardiff. Corntown, just outside Bridgend, sounds as if it should be in the American mid-west. Edited March 9, 2020 by The Johnster 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Rhodesia near Worksop https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/121161-and-the-next-photo-will-havereal-railway-version/page/156/&tab=comments#comment-2937114 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Not an entire village, but I was taken enough by a street name in St Ives, Cornwall to waste a 35mm slide on the street sign in the days when pictures cost good money: Salubrious Place. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DIW Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 We have various worldly locations in the rural parts of Hampshire - Canada, Palestine and Egypt, plus some towns with derived names; Enham Alamein and Waterlooville. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2020 I can't remember if I've said it before, but.... Penarth; a town fairly close to Cardiff, as pronounced in a typical BBC accent. Pennorth; same place, same location, with pretentious overtones. Pennarff; same place, same location, but a lot more realistic..... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 New York in Lincolnshire. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 5 minutes ago, Welly said: New York in Lincolnshire. On the road to Boston from where I live in Soloby. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Torper Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 We've got a Jericho near us here in Angus. No walls, but there again you wouldn't expect there to be.... DT 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: On another thread a discussion ensued about exotic sounding places in the UK. An example is there are one or two places called California. I lived in California, Ipswich.....don't let them upstarts from Stowmarket try and tell their California is the real one. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 37 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Ormskirk. Oswaldtwistle. Both names left over from the Danes and Norse. You also have places like Fazakerley, no way is that a typical British name. Jason 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2020 There's a hamlet called Egypt near Burnham Beeches 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Street names. I did notice a Needless Alley in Birmingham the other week. Photo from BBC website. Jason 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: I lived in California, Ipswich.....don't let them upstarts from Stowmarket try and tell their California is the real one. The real one was in Stoke, where Kerr-Stuart had their works. In Ayrshire, there is a village called Patna, whilst Co. Durham has Philidelphia and Washington. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 20 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: I lived in California, Ipswich.....don't let them upstarts from Stowmarket try and tell their California is the real one. The real one is in Glawster. And it had trains running across the road. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 Chapel-en-le-Frith conjures up images of the French Riviera more than the Peak District. Ashby-de-la-Zouch sounds like it half belongs in France too (leaving the Ashby foot firmly in England though). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted March 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2020 Between Wootton Bassett and Calne: 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, Lantavian said: Oliver's Battery (Hampshire) A gun emplacement perhaps? Possibly named after Oliver Cromwell. There is a part of the Wirral near Bromborough called Magazine. Named after an ammunition store rather than the printed type. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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