This episode was HILARIOUS!! Our inner twelve year old naughtiness came out in abundance during this! The names are so far-fetched from anything we have near us in America! Some were shocking while others were just funny & weird! 👉🏻 Of course *NOT ALL Rude places are mentioned in this video.* But a road-trip from Wales to England, then Scotland 1,200 miles in total to show us many of them was so EPIC! AND if the names aren't enough we get an entire HISTORY lesson of the origins of the names & towns too! We LOVE & have become friends with Ollie @BeeHereNowuk we ask you to PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to his channel! We can't see why you wouldn't want to after this! Plus he has lots of history videos and he's a great bloke! United Kingdom you never cease to amaze us American girls! We know you will have as much fun with this one as we did. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
@@ttedstone Muff, Koch & Bitsch are actual surnames here in Denmark - just imagine the weird looks these poor people get when traveling around the English speaking part of the World 😂
A Two Ronnies joke was a weather forecast, which said, If you live in Sale, there'll be hail, if you live in Sloe, there'll be snow and if you live in Lissingdown, take an umbrella
@@mikeykm1993There was also a sketch many years ago with places rhyming with their weather done in Doric Scottish (e. g. It'll be braw in Stranraer, Ice in Dyce etc.)
I know you said not to do this but I cant resist. There is a town in Donegal called Muff. The rudeness is that it has a club for scuba diving. Yes you guessed it, it is called Muff Diving Club.
We live near Shitterton in Dorset. The council changed the road signs to Sitterton because they thought it was offensive. Didn't last long and the residents had the correctly spelt signs returned.
As a youngster we visited Brownwilly & Woolfartisworthy in the West Country, (i e, Devon). There were/are some crazy, weird name places in the Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall areas, or did have decades ago.
Talking of Wetwang, on the hill above, archaeologists found the grave of a woman in her thirties, buried with a chariot in about 300BC. This is very rare, and may be connected with similar burials in France. She is known, of course, as Wetwang Woman.
there used to be a brand of tea called typhoo, they advertised it on tv with the slogan " typhoo put the t in britain". i once saw this written on a toilet wall " if typhoo put the t in britain, who put the c-nt in scunthorpe?"
@@eivindkaisen6838 so, it's not gone, just changed punctuation? at least it's still around at least, would be a weird day when a heavy hitter like that blips out of existence.
29:15 “What was that?”, they were the Kelpies. 30m high sculptures of horses heads. Stunningly beautiful and well worth a visit. The artist responsible was my cousin Andy Scott. He now does a lot of work in the USA where he is now based.
they are wonderful , i often wonder if they would be improved or ruined by letting Steven Brown loose on them with a mop and several hundres gallons of bright acrylics !!!
The old 'house' you saw on Orkney is Skara Brae - one of the best preserved groups of prehistoric houses in Western Europe. It's older than the Pyramids. The horses heads you noticed are the Kelpies which are mythical Scottish creatures. It's a huge piece of art/engineering.
The chalk figure is the Cerne Abbas Giant near Dorchester Dorset,also nearby is the Piddle Valley through which the River Piddle runs,with various settlements with Piddle in the name,although Piddletown changed it's name to Puddletown.
Thanks for this, it made me so proud to be British! If he'd come up the Midlands, he'd have found a few other interesting places; Bell End in Worcestershire, Horny Old Road in Malvern, and Fockbury Lane just outside Bromsgrove to name a few. Sometimes other things happen to make something sound rude. One such example being the German company, Seimens, who decided to open a branch in Surrey; officially it's Siemens of Staines-Upon-Thames, but of course most refer to it as 'Siemens, Staines' :)
Great video and great reaction. I live in the village of Pity Me. Named from the Norman French (1066) for petit mere (little sea) as the area was a boggy marsh back then. So over the years, petit mere became pity me. It's just to the north of Durham City.
Sending a crew out to remove the extra line added to signs for Shilbottle was a regular occurrence when I worked for the Highways Agency. Not too bad when it was only masking tape but a nuisance when they'd turned it into Shitbottle with paint. We Brits hang on to our love of school level smut for a lifetime!
When I was a teenager in the 90s, I had a friend who always carried a big marker pen, purely for the purpose of inserting the obvious missing letter i from the ubiquitous "TO LET" signs. 😅
used to pass the turnoff for shilbottle every couple of weeks. as soon as it had been cleaned up, some wag wouldve changed it back to shitbottle. made the inner teenager inside me laugh every time
Kirkintilloch finally gave up their attempts to advertise themselves on the signs as "Canal capital of Scotland" because the continual removal and replacement of the first "C" was just making a mess of the signs. They have now gone with "A walkers are welcome town", which remarkably has so far not had the obvious alteration.
Did you notice the red telephone box was being used as a small library, with about six rows of books so that people could swap books I imagine, as and when!!.??
That's quite common across the country. With the rise of mobile phones, most payphone became obsolete and the red phone boxes were re-tasked by the local communities into mini libraries.
Liads of villages round Richmond in Yorkshire gave stone built covered by stops, and these are used as book exchanges, to swop things you dint need and ine even has an honesty box and has eggs fir sale and seasonal veg
theres a 'holiday village' near(ish) me called Sandy Balls. always worth a chuckle or two. Also the town of Clitheroe makes me giggle like a schoolboy.
Most of these place names come from old Norse, Anglo saxon Roman etc. Very often they are pronounced differently from how they are spelled, Live not far from "Stiffkey" which is pronounce Stukey by the locals.The placename derives from Old English styfic 'tree stump' + ēg 'island
In Co.Durham we have Shittlehope Burn , Hetton-le-hole to add to the list. On the dual carriageway in Northumberland we used to notice tyre marks for drivers that had done emergency stops, lots of them, just before the turn off for Shilbottle. A Double take definitely! The sign had been edited with sticky tape turning the first "l" into a "t"! We also have a New York, a Toronto , a Washington ( ancestral home of the Washington family / George Washington of USA fame) .
He mentioned several English towns had a street with a name like Gropec*nt Lane but they've all been renamed. The relevant street in London was renamed Threadneedle Street (because of the preponderance of single women who claimed 'seamstress' as their profession on official documents) and the Bank of England has its headquarters there. The BoE's nickname is "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" leading those who know their history to conclude nothing at all has changed.
In England we would say he is a great bloke to "meet down the pub", you know you would just be able to sit in quiet companionship , having a laugh and the chat would roam from ancient Rome to Tik Tok dances with no awkward pauses and an equal level of hilarity and sincerity about any subject that comes up.
Chance of seeing hills in East Anglia? Norfolking chance... 29:14 "what was that!?" If you mean the sculpture in the background, that's the Kelpies! They're equine statues in Helix Park near Falkirk, and nearly 100ft tall. A kelpie is a traditional ancient Scottish water spirit often described as taking the form of a horse.
As someone with family in the Highlands, I would also like to point out that the village on the other side of the bridge from 'Bonar Bridge' is called 'Ardgay' (pronounced 'ard-guy). So yeh, Bonar Bridge is just across from eh . . . Yeh . . . Very apt. Towards the Sutherland/Caithness border you will also find the small outpost of 'Forsinard' - which to me, always sounded quite like . . . Erm . . . 'Forcing hard' . . . Best not to picture that one maybe 🤣🤣 Then there's a little place in Angus, just west of the A90 trunk road . . . That a good friend of mine wants to pose Infront of the sign for . . . With her girlfriend . . . Dressed in armour and drawing swords. The almost unbelievable . . . 'Battledykes'. 🤣🤣
I grew up very close to Fingringhoe!! Often return. Most of my life in a village, Wivenhoe, opposite on the river. Wivenhoe is an historic sailing and fishing village, still building boats today. Another example of a few coastal 'hoe' named villages in the area. The oak tree he briefly comments on when in Fingringhoe, I think is actually the oldest oak tree in the county of Essex, at least 600 years old
Hi Natasha & Debbie: Here's a few more, any good UK road atlas will have them: BARE (Lancashire), BECK SIDE (Cumberland), BEER (Devon), BENOVER (Kent), BERMUDA (Warwickshire), no triangle though, CRACKPOT (Yorkshire), FOUL END (Warwickshire) FULL READY (same) GREAT HECK (Yorkshire), HORNEY COMMON (East Sussex), MOUSEHOLE (Cornwall), OLD WIVES LEES (Kent), PISHILL (Oxfordshire), ROCK (Cornwall), UPPER END (Derbyshire), WENDY (Cambridgeshire), and last but not least WHEELBARROW TOWN (Kent). Best wishes, LS.
Once he headed to the far north I knew where he was going. I live in Orkney and used to live quite near Twatt. It's one of the most photographed signposts, of which there are several, in Orkney. You ought to do a video about Orkney, it's a beautiful place full of ancient history Great channel, cheers me up no end 😀😀
We have a village in Kent called Loose, and they have a club (I think it is still running) called the Loose Women's Institute! Several years ago I actually visited Fingringhoe Wick nature reserve which is on an estuary and has loads of wading birds.
A little bit on Boston, it is actually an alias of Botolph's Town, who was a local saint. Not many funny place names around here, but we do have Hadbutts Lane, which is mildly amusing 😄
in Western Australia there's a place called Cockburn, pronounced "Co Burn". When I first moved to Oz, I always pronounced it as Cockburn and I'd get the funniest looks, lol. City of Cockburn 😂
There is a Tickle Cock Bridge in the Town of Castleford West Yorkshire, and about a fifteen minute car ride from where I live. Not being a native of these parts ( Scottish) , I was told that way back in the day, this shady corner was a favourite haunt of courting couples ???? I'll leave you to fill in the blanks !!
Ticklecock bridge in Castleford is a small underpass under the railway line. The council tried to rename it ticklecote bridge, that didn’t last long! I used to live at the bottom of Slutwell Hill in the next town over. Yorkshire folk just aren’t shy!
Years ago, I worked near Conisbrough Castle in South Yorkshire, and not far away was Butt Hole Road. We used to regularly get tourists asking for directions to it. They all wanted to take photos with the street sign. The road has since been renamed Archers Way. Butts were the place with targets, where all men in medieval times, were required by law to do weekly archery practice. There was also an annual Ticklecock Funfair in the town.
Hi ladies. I live very close to Wetwang. You might be interested to learn that in 2001 archaeologists uncovered an Iron Age Chariot Burial from around 300BCE near the village belonging to a woman now dubbed as the "Warrior Queen of Wetwang", such burials are indicative of high status individuals and are rarely found containing female remainsso she must have been a very important lady to be buried in such a way. They made a TV programme about the find which is available on RUclips along with many other videos about it. You missed the Tommy on the grass in Fingringhoe @12:52.
I forgot another interesting fact about Wetwang. J.R.R.Tolkien had connections with the E.York(shires) area and he included a place called Wetwang in Middle Earth from his The Lord of the Rings books.
I loved this video. It made me laugh a lot. I couldn't help but think of the name of a street in a town I used to work in called Jeffries passage. It's safe to say I've been up Jeffries passage more than once😬
Thanks so much, that really made me laugh. It feels good to be back on board the Natasha and Debbie train again! Life has been a bit crazy, but I'm still here. Sending some Kiwi love your way ❤❤
A cracking video. Wetwang isn't far from where I live in Yorkshire and Pity Me isn't that far north, in County Durham. I have been to Orkney but must have missed his final stopping place!
The first sign, for Shitterton ,was made from stone, because the normal metal road signs kept being stolen! It's in Dorset, only a few miles from Scratchy Bottom, while just over the Hampshire border, there's the Sandy Balls holiday village!
My fav has to be a few miles up the road Hawes (North Yorkshire) pronounced Whores ... Saxon-Norse hals meaning a neck or gap in the hills. Haven't been for years but there used to be a shop which sold lots of smutty merch
Went through a village in Wales called Knocking not so bad you say ? But the village shop was called the knocking shop 😂 hope you understand the meaning 😊
It's not just the UK with these names. If you go to Germany you can go from Kissing to Petting and then across the border into Austria is Fugging (which is it's recently changed name). If you don't feel ready to go all the way, you can stay in Germany and go to Wank instead, riding the Wankbahn up to the Wankhaus.
Ive got a few daft ones near me. Fanny Hill, Bottom Burn and Fanny Burn😂 (a burn is a Scots Leid word for stream). The horse sculptures are of Kelpies. Kelpies in Scottisg folklore are shape-shifting water spirits that are said to be dangerous and drown folks. Xx
A fun presentation. Yes Cockermouth in Cumbria is always one that gets the giggles despite being in a beautiful part of the Lake District. Near to where I am we have a Dicks Lane, which isn't far from Ladies Walk. Make what you will of that. 😉
Really enjoyed that. I live near Cockermouth, it's where I do the shopping and, I suspect, like the inhabitants of all those places you never the think of the risible sound of the names - it's just somewhere you live. There's also a hill nearby called Great Cockup - you don't need much imagination to see the funny side of that.
Just for everyone's information, East Anglia has been said it is "flat enough to fax". I live in the middle of it & can confirm that while there are no mountains, there are plenty of hills that are a right pain to cycle up!
I lived in Suffolk for most of my 20s and absolutely loved the people and place. Always felt safe and welcomed. In my 30s and back in Kent now but I still miss Suffolk and am really considering making a move back there.
@chrissouthgate4554 I youth hostelled by bicycle around East Anglia and you are right. There aren't any visibly high hills but the subtle slopes which are a long, hard grind to ride are there in great abundance! It's exhausting, even if you are fit.
When I was just learning too read, we moved too a small village just outside Hull, E,Yorks. There was a street sign, (I used to read all the street signs out), it was called Te-He-Wa-ai-Te- Ee street. Well my faily laughed for ages before telling me you say, Th and wait street. Just as a by the by, being a certain type of pet lover we like Meaux on the way to Wetwang.that is not many miles away from here. Your reactions are priceless. Keep them comming. Blessings and love, I wish you lived next door to me.
"Great Bottom Flash" - that's one of them - part of a canal and there's a "Wee wee cottage" in the Village of "Wyre Piddle" There really are hundreds of them in the IK
Fingringhoe has an Army training area and firing range although I don't know if it's still in use, it may be a nature reserve now I was involved in the recovery of 2 Army tanks from there a good few years ago.
I grew up in a village called Tydd Gote, on the border between south Lincolnshire & north Cambridgeshire. As far as I remember, the name refers to the 'tide gate' that was built to take water from the tidal flow of the local river, the Nene, & redistribute it into man-made waterways, to prevent flooding of farmland, which is very low-lying in that area, and even below sea-level in places!!
I live in East Anglia, and often pass the lane mentioned, it still has a kind of shock value, it's a sign that can be read clearly for a fair distance. Being a geriatric juvenile though even the "Dog Inn" sign near me makes me snigger...
Absolutely hilarious both the names and the pair of you regressing to your twelve year old selves. Looking forward to Rude Names Part Two. Not sure my sides can take anymore though. 🤣🤣🤣🤣Love, hugs and prayers from Sussex, UK
Great waking up to your video this morning. My spine has been very painful all night but is now worse from all the laughing I have been doing. Not just the names but the hilarious way that Ollie narrates his videos so tongue in cheek. Well now that I am recovering I think it’s time to get out of bed and start my day. 8:30 am here. By the way Debbie you suddenly made me cry out at the In/out comment it was the matter of fact way you said it and then Natasha trying not to laugh. Keep on with your videos ladies. Maybe you can tell us some towns near you with unusual names? x
I live a stones throw from Cocking, so I knew it would be on that list. It's a very small village nestled in the South Downs National Park so has lovely views. I would hike around there frequently
My daughter always stops there (Wetwang) for fish and chips. Cockermouth is a lovely little town with a river running through it. The giant horse head sculpture is called the 'Kelpies' and is just North of Edinburgh 😊
I giggle at rude place names as much as anyone else, and enjoyed this very much. But I’ve been to Penistone many times and live nearby, and whilst everyone is very aware of the name, you really do just tune it out. Stop seeing the first two syllables. Totally just penny-stun to us.
That was absolutely brilliant. I laughed my head off. Thank you, Natasha, Debbie.😂 And how beautiful as well all the scenery was. What a great guy. I will definitely subscribe to his channel. And incidentally, Bonar Bridge is about 15 minutes from where I live!😅 Steady, now I said steady.😂😂😂🩷🇬🇧🏴🏴🇺🇸
My son goes to Fingringhoe School. We live in a neighbouring village. Just love your videos. Been following you for for some time. Couldn’t believe a little connection to you. 😂xxx
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This episode was HILARIOUS!! Our inner twelve year old naughtiness came out in abundance during this! The names are so far-fetched from anything we have near us in America! Some were shocking while others were just funny & weird! 👉🏻 Of course *NOT ALL Rude places are mentioned in this video.* But a road-trip from Wales to England, then Scotland 1,200 miles in total to show us many of them was so EPIC! AND if the names aren't enough we get an entire HISTORY lesson of the origins of the names & towns too! We LOVE & have become friends with Ollie @BeeHereNowuk we ask you to PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to his channel! We can't see why you wouldn't want to after this! Plus he has lots of history videos and he's a great bloke! United Kingdom you never cease to amaze us American girls! We know you will have as much fun with this one as we did. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
The tickled trout is a nice pub/ restaurant in Maidstone Kent.
Close to where I live in County Donegal Ireland is the village of Muff. It's near the sea and has a Muff Diving Club and is home to Muff Liqueur
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@@ttedstone Muff, Koch & Bitsch are actual surnames here in Denmark - just imagine the weird looks these poor people get when traveling around the English speaking part of the World 😂
A Two Ronnies joke was a weather forecast, which said, If you live in Sale, there'll be hail, if you live in Sloe, there'll be snow and if you live in Lissingdown, take an umbrella
That’s hilarious 😂
@@mikeykm1993There was also a sketch many years ago with places rhyming with their weather done in Doric Scottish (e. g. It'll be braw in Stranraer, Ice in Dyce etc.)
i don't think i've seen that one but that is hilarious
I loved that quote & our whole family loved the Two Ronnies, they were a bit more risque than Morecambe and Wise, say?
passed through the scottish village of "Dull" the other day. twinned with the US town of "Boring"
I know you said not to do this but I cant resist. There is a town in Donegal called Muff. The rudeness is that it has a club for scuba diving. Yes you guessed it, it is called Muff Diving Club.
In Worcesrshire we have Wyre Piddle next to Piddle Brook.
We live near Shitterton in Dorset. The council changed the road signs to Sitterton because they thought it was offensive. Didn't last long and the residents had the correctly spelt signs returned.
Didn’t they have to make the village sign out of stone because it kept getting stolen?
@@alexgill2455 That's correct. Popular place for tourists to have their photo taken by.
If it spelt shitterton, that is how it’s spelt.
Twinned with Shilbottle, Cumbria, I believe.
As a youngster we visited Brownwilly & Woolfartisworthy in the West Country, (i e, Devon). There were/are some crazy, weird name places in the Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall areas, or did have decades ago.
In Ireland there is a town called Muff, home of the Muff divers and The Muff Liqour Company.
I live beside it. They keep getting their sign stolen, it says welcome to muff
I want Muff booze now
They also have The Fishy, Muff and Muff Barbers
Muffffff😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I live in Armagh and would love to visit the place
Talking of Wetwang, on the hill above, archaeologists found the grave of a woman in her thirties, buried with a chariot in about 300BC. This is very rare, and may be connected with similar burials in France. She is known, of course, as Wetwang Woman.
there used to be a brand of tea called typhoo, they advertised it on tv with the slogan " typhoo put the t in britain". i once saw this written on a toilet wall " if typhoo put the t in britain, who put the c-nt in scunthorpe?"
wait...used to be? isn't it still around?
@@jamie151-d9j Yup, now spelt Ty-phoo
And people from Scunthorpe had problems getting their site registered on e.g., Facebook.
@@eivindkaisen6838 so, it's not gone, just changed punctuation?
at least it's still around at least, would be a weird day when a heavy hitter like that blips out of existence.
@@jamie151-d9j i wouldn't know, i don't drink tea or watch tv anymore
I drink Typhoo every day, not sure why you think they aren't still around.
29:15 “What was that?”, they were the Kelpies. 30m high sculptures of horses heads. Stunningly beautiful and well worth a visit. The artist responsible was my cousin Andy Scott. He now does a lot of work in the USA where he is now based.
Andy's style of sculpture is very distinctive and there are examples all over central Scotland. I didn't know he'd moved to the US.
@@alangauld6079 Philadelphia was certainly his recent home.
they are wonderful , i often wonder if they would be improved or ruined by letting Steven Brown loose on them with a mop and several hundres gallons of bright acrylics !!!
We do love a mythical water horse up here 😂
The Kelpies are beautiful.
The old 'house' you saw on Orkney is Skara Brae - one of the best preserved groups of prehistoric houses in Western Europe. It's older than the Pyramids.
The horses heads you noticed are the Kelpies which are mythical Scottish creatures. It's a huge piece of art/engineering.
I’ve been to Skara Brae, it’s amazing!
@@RainbowSauceGames been too, and yes amazing!
I used to live in a tiny hamlet outside Bath called Woolley Bottom😅😅😅
Debbie made me laugh out loud - with the "Easy in Easy Out" comment
She's such a minx 😀
The chalk figure is the Cerne Abbas Giant near Dorchester Dorset,also nearby is the Piddle Valley through which the River Piddle runs,with various settlements with Piddle in the name,although Piddletown changed it's name to Puddletown.
There was an attempt to change the name of the river to The Trent,didn’t stick.
I bet the old residents were pissed
Love your shows as a child l always had to laugh at a little village near us called Ducks bottom 😂
Thanks for this, it made me so proud to be British! If he'd come up the Midlands, he'd have found a few other interesting places; Bell End in Worcestershire, Horny Old Road in Malvern, and Fockbury Lane just outside Bromsgrove to name a few.
Sometimes other things happen to make something sound rude. One such example being the German company, Seimens, who decided to open a branch in Surrey; officially it's Siemens of Staines-Upon-Thames, but of course most refer to it as 'Siemens, Staines' :)
I live about 3 miles from Cockermouth , lovely little town , birthplace of the poet William wordsworth.
Wordsworth leave your sister alone!
Great video and great reaction. I live in the village of Pity Me. Named from the Norman French (1066) for petit mere (little sea) as the area was a boggy marsh back then. So over the years, petit mere became pity me. It's just to the north of Durham City.
Sending a crew out to remove the extra line added to signs for Shilbottle was a regular occurrence when I worked for the Highways Agency. Not too bad when it was only masking tape but a nuisance when they'd turned it into Shitbottle with paint. We Brits hang on to our love of school level smut for a lifetime!
When I was a teenager in the 90s, I had a friend who always carried a big marker pen, purely for the purpose of inserting the obvious missing letter i from the ubiquitous "TO LET" signs. 😅
used to pass the turnoff for shilbottle every couple of weeks. as soon as it had been cleaned up, some wag wouldve changed it back to shitbottle. made the inner teenager inside me laugh every time
Kirkintilloch finally gave up their attempts to advertise themselves on the signs as "Canal capital of Scotland" because the continual removal and replacement of the first "C" was just making a mess of the signs. They have now gone with "A walkers are welcome town", which remarkably has so far not had the obvious alteration.
Mate, also us Aussies too. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
There are scamps in Dorset who are forever scraping part of the ‘D’ on the sign for the village of Duntish. I’m sure you can figure out which part….
Down here in Kent, close to Maidstone is a small lane named ‘Gravelly Bottom Road’…. Bit further on near Orpington is area named ‘Pratts Bottom’…🤣🤣👍
Did you notice the red telephone box was being used as a small library, with about six rows of books so that people could swap books I imagine, as and when!!.??
That's quite common across the country. With the rise of mobile phones, most payphone became obsolete and the red phone boxes were re-tasked by the local communities into mini libraries.
I’ve seen on the web that some of the old phonebooths being used as defibrillator stations.
Liads of villages round Richmond in Yorkshire gave stone built covered by stops, and these are used as book exchanges, to swop things you dint need and ine even has an honesty box and has eggs fir sale and seasonal veg
@@eventingcrazy Either mini libraries or defibrillator holders.
@@CB-xr1egor indeed both 😀
theres a 'holiday village' near(ish) me called Sandy Balls. always worth a chuckle or two. Also the town of Clitheroe makes me giggle like a schoolboy.
Many a wonderful summer holiday was spent at Sandy Balls!
Well he missed PRATTS BOTTOM in Kent .
Most of these place names come from old Norse, Anglo saxon Roman etc. Very often they are pronounced differently from how they are spelled, Live not far from "Stiffkey" which is pronounce Stukey by the locals.The placename derives from Old English styfic 'tree stump' + ēg 'island
In Co.Durham we have Shittlehope Burn , Hetton-le-hole to add to the list. On the dual carriageway in Northumberland we used to notice tyre marks for drivers that had done emergency stops, lots of them, just before the turn off for Shilbottle. A Double take definitely! The sign had been edited with sticky tape turning the first "l" into a "t"! We also have a New York, a Toronto , a Washington ( ancestral home of the Washington family / George Washington of USA fame) .
Place in the Brecon Beacons called "Lord Harrison's Knob" .
*Lord Hereford's Knob, not Harrison
Yes sorry my mistake I going senile ha ha , the chap i used to go hiking with was called Harrison, I had a brain fog moment
I know Lord Hereford's Knob very well.
Spent many a pleasant afternoon on it. F'naar f'naar😅😅😅
I've sat on top of Lord Hereford's Knob ("Twmpa, Twmpa, you're going to need a jwmpa")
Three miles from me is the town of Upton Opon Severn, there is a " Minge Lane " there.
The first rule of Fingringhoe Club is you do not talk about Fingringhoe Club.
The second rule is cut your fingernails.
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The third rule is.. spend enough time to explore in & out, and all about (around) Fingringhoe. ...when invited to continue.
@@razor1uk610 You sir is excluded from the club, just because of the name sir, sorry
haha went to Uni across the water from finger-in-the-ho! Great little place!
The forth rule is no jewellery to be worn.
He mentioned several English towns had a street with a name like Gropec*nt Lane but they've all been renamed. The relevant street in London was renamed Threadneedle Street (because of the preponderance of single women who claimed 'seamstress' as their profession on official documents) and the Bank of England has its headquarters there. The BoE's nickname is "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" leading those who know their history to conclude nothing at all has changed.
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In England we would say he is a great bloke to "meet down the pub", you know you would just be able to sit in quiet companionship , having a laugh and the chat would roam from ancient Rome to Tik Tok dances with no awkward pauses and an equal level of hilarity and sincerity about any subject that comes up.
There used to be a pub on Townsend Lane Liverpool called The Cockwell Inn.
Chance of seeing hills in East Anglia? Norfolking chance...
29:14 "what was that!?" If you mean the sculpture in the background, that's the Kelpies! They're equine statues in Helix Park near Falkirk, and nearly 100ft tall. A kelpie is a traditional ancient Scottish water spirit often described as taking the form of a horse.
I love your naughty minds ❤❤❤❤❤ you two were and as always are HILARIOUS! 😂😂😂
Our company did some work in Cockermouth..... at the Swallow Hotel 😳 Yes, really.
Debbie owes me an IPad , I dropped it when she said “Easy in and Easy out .😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I just love this and Olli is an amazing presenter.❤😂
As someone with family in the Highlands, I would also like to point out that the village on the other side of the bridge from 'Bonar Bridge' is called 'Ardgay' (pronounced 'ard-guy). So yeh, Bonar Bridge is just across from eh . . . Yeh . . . Very apt.
Towards the Sutherland/Caithness border you will also find the small outpost of 'Forsinard' - which to me, always sounded quite like . . . Erm . . . 'Forcing hard' . . . Best not to picture that one maybe 🤣🤣
Then there's a little place in Angus, just west of the A90 trunk road . . . That a good friend of mine wants to pose Infront of the sign for . . . With her girlfriend . . . Dressed in armour and drawing swords. The almost unbelievable . . . 'Battledykes'. 🤣🤣
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After Dick gardens you caught a glimpse of some huge Horse heads...that was The Kelpies. Massive sculpture. Check it out
A place I go past in Yorkshire called Sexhow another village called Crackpot, also been Wet Wang a few times
Course.
Shafton
Penistone and Netherthong nearby
So you know where I got my account name from.😊
Ever been to Staithes pronounced locally as Steers? Or Masham Massum,
@@williamwatkinson1696 yes visited Staithes down the hill
BEST INTRO EVER !! Lmao .. Debbie !!!
There's a village near Stansted, Essex, called Ugly and yes they have the Ugly Women's Institute.
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I live about 20 mins from there
@@fiona6561 I live near Idle - which has the Idle Workingmen’s Institute
I grew up very close to Fingringhoe!! Often return. Most of my life in a village, Wivenhoe, opposite on the river. Wivenhoe is an historic sailing and fishing village, still building boats today. Another example of a few coastal 'hoe' named villages in the area.
The oak tree he briefly comments on when in Fingringhoe, I think is actually the oldest oak tree in the county of Essex, at least 600 years old
Thank you ladies for sharing this video. My brothers lives in a place called Locks Bottom.
Hi Natasha & Debbie: Here's a few more, any good UK road atlas will have them: BARE (Lancashire), BECK SIDE (Cumberland), BEER (Devon), BENOVER (Kent), BERMUDA (Warwickshire), no triangle though, CRACKPOT (Yorkshire), FOUL END (Warwickshire) FULL READY (same) GREAT HECK (Yorkshire), HORNEY COMMON (East Sussex), MOUSEHOLE (Cornwall), OLD WIVES LEES (Kent), PISHILL (Oxfordshire), ROCK (Cornwall), UPPER END (Derbyshire), WENDY (Cambridgeshire), and last but not least WHEELBARROW TOWN (Kent). Best wishes, LS.
Once he headed to the far north I knew where he was going. I live in Orkney and used to live quite near Twatt. It's one of the most photographed signposts, of which there are several, in Orkney. You ought to do a video about Orkney, it's a beautiful place full of ancient history Great channel, cheers me up no end 😀😀
We have a village in Kent called Loose, and they have a club (I think it is still running) called the Loose Women's Institute! Several years ago I actually visited Fingringhoe Wick nature reserve which is on an estuary and has loads of wading birds.
A little bit on Boston, it is actually an alias of Botolph's Town, who was a local saint.
Not many funny place names around here, but we do have Hadbutts Lane, which is mildly amusing 😄
in Western Australia there's a place called Cockburn, pronounced "Co Burn". When I first moved to Oz, I always pronounced it as Cockburn and I'd get the funniest looks, lol. City of Cockburn 😂
There is a Tickle Cock Bridge in the Town of Castleford West Yorkshire, and about a fifteen minute car ride from where I live. Not being a native of these parts ( Scottish) , I was told that way back in the day, this shady corner was a favourite haunt of courting couples ???? I'll leave you to fill in the blanks !!
Ticklecock bridge in Castleford is a small underpass under the railway line. The council tried to rename it ticklecote bridge, that didn’t last long! I used to live at the bottom of Slutwell Hill in the next town over. Yorkshire folk just aren’t shy!
Yay, good to see Wetwang being from East Yorkshire. I drive through there every Wednesday when I go from York to my dad’s.
It's one of my favourites from driving to my late parents house. Made me laugh everytime.
Stop off for fish & chips they are superb.
My parents used to drive from Bradford to scarborough. We would go through Wetwang. I always loved going through. But I now live in scarborough.
Years ago, I worked near Conisbrough Castle in South Yorkshire, and not far away was Butt Hole Road. We used to regularly get tourists asking for directions to it. They all wanted to take photos with the street sign. The road has since been renamed Archers Way. Butts were the place with targets, where all men in medieval times, were required by law to do weekly archery practice. There was also an annual Ticklecock Funfair in the town.
I can remember seeing a sign near Chopwell about 30 yts ago called fannybush lane
Hi ladies. I live very close to Wetwang. You might be interested to learn that in 2001 archaeologists uncovered an Iron Age Chariot Burial from around 300BCE near the village belonging to a woman now dubbed as the "Warrior Queen of Wetwang", such burials are indicative of high status individuals and are rarely found containing female remainsso she must have been a very important lady to be buried in such a way. They made a TV programme about the find which is available on RUclips along with many other videos about it.
You missed the Tommy on the grass in Fingringhoe @12:52.
I forgot another interesting fact about Wetwang. J.R.R.Tolkien had connections with the E.York(shires) area and he included a place called Wetwang in Middle Earth from his The Lord of the Rings books.
I loved this video. It made me laugh a lot. I couldn't help but think of the name of a street in a town I used to work in called Jeffries passage. It's safe to say I've been up Jeffries passage more than once😬
Thanks so much, that really made me laugh. It feels good to be back on board the Natasha and Debbie train again! Life has been a bit crazy, but I'm still here. Sending some Kiwi love your way ❤❤
Another Kiwi here, who lives not that far south of... erm... Shag Point.
A cracking video. Wetwang isn't far from where I live in Yorkshire and Pity Me isn't that far north, in County Durham. I have been to Orkney but must have missed his final stopping place!
The first sign, for Shitterton ,was made from stone, because the normal metal road signs kept being stolen! It's in Dorset, only a few miles from Scratchy Bottom, while just over the Hampshire border, there's the Sandy Balls holiday village!
Don't forget Piddle Hinton and Piddle Trenthide! And the Wallops of course 🇬🇧
My fav has to be a few miles up the road Hawes (North Yorkshire) pronounced Whores ... Saxon-Norse hals meaning a neck or gap in the hills. Haven't been for years but there used to be a shop which sold lots of smutty merch
Went through a village in Wales called Knocking not so bad you say ? But the village shop was called the knocking shop 😂 hope you understand the meaning 😊
Knocking is in Shropshire near to the border
@@redscouse7056. . . and it's spelled Knockin - but they are still proud of their "Knockin Shop".
It's not just the UK with these names. If you go to Germany you can go from Kissing to Petting and then across the border into Austria is Fugging (which is it's recently changed name). If you don't feel ready to go all the way, you can stay in Germany and go to Wank instead, riding the Wankbahn up to the Wankhaus.
You missed out Pfaffing and Tittmoning. :)
There is also Penis in Germany
Love it!! And it looks like Fingringhoe has lots of Bush 😅 😉
I used to live in Colchester, near Fingringhoe, but currently live in Plymouth, where an adjacent village is called Crapstone.
Ive got a few daft ones near me. Fanny Hill, Bottom Burn and Fanny Burn😂 (a burn is a Scots Leid word for stream).
The horse sculptures are of Kelpies. Kelpies in Scottisg folklore are shape-shifting water spirits that are said to be dangerous and drown folks. Xx
My town has a grope cxxut lane now known as parsons street
My brother in law used to be a teacher at a high school in Penistone. Always makes me chuckle.
Thanks for that,it was awesome . He’s a funny man very informative and engaging, will check out his vids have a great day xx😂😂
Thanks meg!! ❤️
A fun presentation. Yes Cockermouth in Cumbria is always one that gets the giggles despite being in a beautiful part of the Lake District. Near to where I am we have a Dicks Lane, which isn't far from Ladies Walk. Make what you will of that. 😉
Really enjoyed that. I live near Cockermouth, it's where I do the shopping and, I suspect, like the inhabitants of all those places you never the think of the risible sound of the names - it's just somewhere you live.
There's also a hill nearby called Great Cockup - you don't need much imagination to see the funny side of that.
We had to go there when the place got wrecked by floods
Recovered pretty well though I'm pleased to say. @@johnritter6864
Hiya GB, I live in Whitehaven, 13 miles from Cockermouth
Hey Up. Worked in Whitehaven for a good few years@@Choppy698
The pub in Fingringhoe is called the Whale Bone! Good pub lunches and beer!
Just for everyone's information, East Anglia has been said it is "flat enough to fax". I live in the middle of it & can confirm that while there are no mountains, there are plenty of hills that are a right pain to cycle up!
Yes! It's the fens that are flat.
I lived in Suffolk for most of my 20s and absolutely loved the people and place. Always felt safe and welcomed. In my 30s and back in Kent now but I still miss Suffolk and am really considering making a move back there.
I live in a Suffolk village on top of a short but steep hill. I still cycle here but these days I cheat and use electric.😂
I used to live in the area round Spalding/Wisbech, & the only hill for miles is Gedney Hill, & it's a village.......with NO hills!! 🤣🤣🤣
@chrissouthgate4554 I youth hostelled by bicycle around East Anglia and you are right. There aren't any visibly high hills but the subtle slopes which are a long, hard grind to ride are there in great abundance! It's exhausting, even if you are fit.
Loved this video, there’s a place near where I live in the West Midlands called Bell End. Make of that what you will
😂 this is funny we have some funny named roads here where I live too 😂 I've hit the like button
I once knew a place called Beaver Road where there was a pub called The Beaver Inn. 😁
The What Was That at 29:15 are
The Kelpies standing at 100ft tall and are two Horse Heads. They are magnificent especially when lit up at night.
When I was just learning too read, we moved too a small village just outside Hull, E,Yorks. There was a street sign, (I used to read all the street signs out), it was called Te-He-Wa-ai-Te- Ee street. Well my faily laughed for ages before telling me you say, Th and wait street.
Just as a by the by, being a certain type of pet lover we like Meaux on the way to Wetwang.that is not many miles away from here.
Your reactions are priceless. Keep them comming.
Blessings and love, I wish you lived next door to me.
In north Kent not far from where I live we have a Thong but also Twatt
I used to live next to a Dickburn Crescent...that never failed to amuse me.
Used to live in a road called “ Clitsome view” 😂
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Couple of funny ones near me.....
Stanford Dingley
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Tutts Clump
We also border Middle Earth because of....
Bucklebury (no ferry but there is a ford).
"Great Bottom Flash" - that's one of them - part of a canal and there's a "Wee wee cottage" in the Village of "Wyre Piddle"
There really are hundreds of them in the IK
My sister and her partner restored Wee Wee Cottage in Wyre Piddle in the late Eighties!
In Kent Wormshill is often changed to Wormshitt.
Except the Welsh mountain would be pronounced more like "Van er beeg" (ruddy English not learning how to pronounce other languages! 😛)
Lol this is brilliant for Sunday giggles, loved the intro. Thank you for the Sunday smiles 😂😊 easy in easy out lmao!
"easy in easy out" made me properly laugh out loud!
Fingringhoe has an Army training area and firing range although I don't know if it's still in use, it may be a nature reserve now I was involved in the recovery of 2 Army tanks from there a good few years ago.
I grew up in a village called Tydd Gote, on the border between south Lincolnshire & north Cambridgeshire.
As far as I remember, the name refers to the 'tide gate' that was built to take water from the tidal flow of the local river, the Nene, & redistribute it into man-made waterways, to prevent flooding of farmland, which is very low-lying in that area, and even below sea-level in places!!
I live in East Anglia, and often pass the lane mentioned, it still has a kind of shock value, it's a sign that can be read clearly for a fair distance. Being a geriatric juvenile though even the "Dog Inn" sign near me makes me snigger...
Near Huddersfield, where I’m from, there are the villages Thongsbridge, Upperthong, Netherthong and Leatherthong. I hope they make an appearance.
Yes Upperthong!
These villages fed into the high school I went to ( summer wine country.. if you know, you know)
@@mattymoowhiteHonley High School? I was drinking in Holmfirth only last week.
It surprised me that there were Lowerthong and Netherthong in the same area. Lower and Nether mean the same thing.
Absolutely hilarious both the names and the pair of you regressing to your twelve year old selves. Looking forward to Rude Names Part Two. Not sure my sides can take anymore though. 🤣🤣🤣🤣Love, hugs and prayers from Sussex, UK
Great waking up to your video this morning. My spine has been very painful all night but is now worse from all the laughing I have been doing. Not just the names but the hilarious way that Ollie narrates his videos so tongue in cheek. Well now that I am recovering I think it’s time to get out of bed and start my day. 8:30 am here. By the way Debbie you suddenly made me cry out at the In/out comment it was the matter of fact way you said it and then Natasha trying not to laugh. Keep on with your videos ladies. Maybe you can tell us some towns near you with unusual names? x
I live a stones throw from Cocking, so I knew it would be on that list. It's a very small village nestled in the South Downs National Park so has lovely views. I would hike around there frequently
I live about 4 and 1/2 miles from Fingringhoe. There is a road in another village called Burnt Dick Hill.
When I first met my third wife, she was Ms Cox and she lived at Fanny Moor Lane.
Thank you girls this brightened a miserable day here in England look after each other x x ❤️❤️🦋🦋
My daughter always stops there (Wetwang) for fish and chips. Cockermouth is a lovely little town with a river running through it. The giant horse head sculpture is called the 'Kelpies' and is just North of Edinburgh 😊
I giggle at rude place names as much as anyone else, and enjoyed this very much. But I’ve been to Penistone many times and live nearby, and whilst everyone is very aware of the name, you really do just tune it out. Stop seeing the first two syllables. Totally just penny-stun to us.
Agreed. I live not too far away, and it had never occurred to me that it could be anything but penny-stun.
That was absolutely brilliant. I laughed my head off. Thank you, Natasha, Debbie.😂 And how beautiful as well all the scenery was. What a great guy. I will definitely subscribe to his channel. And incidentally, Bonar Bridge is about 15 minutes from where I live!😅 Steady, now I said steady.😂😂😂🩷🇬🇧🏴🏴🇺🇸
As you said. Make a great board game. Fancy throwing a double six to get out of FingringHoe, or not if that's your persuasion! 🙃
My son goes to Fingringhoe School. We live in a neighbouring village.
Just love your videos. Been following you for for some time.
Couldn’t believe a little connection to you. 😂xxx
The Fish and Chips in Penistone are probably fine. Might want to avoid the battered sausage though.
A battered sausage only makes it more resilient and stronger. Great for stamina! 😅
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