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Here is a small quiz. I am going to give you cryptic clues to 6 different places. You have to guess what those places are. Check the answers at the bottom of this page when you have finished.
1)Religious person consuming the opposite of off.
2)Star celebrity-Jonathon _ _ _ _, opposite of off, why?
3)Is this hypermarket old?
4)A body organ game.
5)Woman, thinking after hairy upper body.
6)Spear the car!
If you can't think what the answers are and why, even after you have checked them, just e-mail me and i will tell you why!
Here are some place names that I find sooooooooooooo funny!
Foul end -near Kingsbury.
Bell End -near Bromsgrove.
Lickey End -near Bromsgrove.
St. Anns Chapel is near to Churchstow is near to Buckland-Tout Saints (all religious) - near Kingsbridge (Devon)
Church Knowle is near to Harman's Cross is near to Steeple (all religious) - near Poole/Bournemouth.
Holton-Cum-Beckering - near Lincoln.
Cummingston -North West of Aberdeen
Gayton -near Stafford
Shaftenhoe End -near Stevenage Virginstow -near Okehampton (Devon)
Willey -near Nuneaton
Cockshutt -near Shrewsbury
Dykehead -near Glasgow
Dickleburgh -near Norwich
Bognor Regis -near Chichester
Zouch -near Loughborough
Chickerell -near Weymouth
Diddlebury -near Shrewsbury
Diss -near Norwich
Cockermouth -near Carlisle
A long name:- Wiggenhall St. Mary The Virgin
There is a Southampton and a Northampton. Where are the East and Westhamptons?
There are three Blackpools. One on the seaside up in Lancashire. The other two are 15 miles apart in Devon!!!
Hard to pronounce place names:-If you can pronounce them, you must be welsh!
AULT A' CHRUINN=North of Fort William (Scotland)
AIRIDH A BHRUAICH=Western Isles
LLANFAIRYNGHORNWY=near Holyhead
LLANAELHAEARN=near Pwllheli
LLANGYNIDR=near Abergavenny
PENRHIWCEIBER=near Merthyr Tydfil
ABERGYNOLWYN=near Machynlleth
ESGAIRGEILIOG=near Machynlleth
The longest place name is situated in North Wales and is:
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH (58 letters)
I do know the name on the railway station takes up the whole railway station and is 30 metres long!!!
Most place names beginning with 'Aber' are in Wales (e.g Abergavenny or Aberthaw). So why has Aberdeen ended up in Scotland, then?
My name is Kirk. A weird name, but not for places!
There are at least 97 place names with Kirk at the beginning!
There are others with Kirk in the middle (**KIRK****) and split up (**K**I****R*K)-e.g KIlmaRnocK.
WEIRD PLACES:
Sunniside- near Newcastle
Coldbackie- West of Thurso (Scotland)
Coldeast- near Newton Abbot (Devon)
North Town -nearOkehampton (Devon)
North Huish -near Plymouth
South Erradale -North of Kyle of Localsh (Scotland)
Southmuir -near Forfar, North of Dundee.
Here is a place no-one has ever heard of before: Tottenham!!!
Are good childminders really situated in MOTHERWELL??
Here are some good place names around the World:
Arsenev -Russia
Fuchun (River) - near Shanghai (China)
Shitang - China
Mingela - Australia
Phuket - Asia
Poopo (Lago) - South America
Tosya - Turkey
Wankaner - near Bombay (India)
Weener -Germany
There is a street name in Aylesbury called Dicks Way.
The answers to the questions at the top of this page are:
1)NUNEATON
2)ROSS-ON-WYE
3)NEWMARKET
4)LIVERPOOL
5)MANCHESTER
6)DARTFORD
If you can think of other funny place names etc, e-mail me at hatton02@yahoo.co.uk |
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