Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia
Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland
Dildo, Newfoundland
Economy, Nova Scotia
Goobies, Newfoundland
Hairy Hill, Alberta
Joe Batts Arm, Newfoundland
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Moose Factory, Ontario
Springhill, Nova Scotia
Swastika, Saskatchewan
Upper Dildo, Newfoundland
Vulcan, Alberta
Yak, British Columbia

My favourite is:
St. Louis de Ha! Ha! in Quebec

Nova Scotia has:
Bangs Falls
Beaver Harbour
Bible Hill
Chimney Corner
Cow Bay
Diligent River
Dingwall
Donkin
Economy
Ecum Secum
Folly Lake
Garden of Eden
Goshen
Harmony
Homeville
Joggins
Lower Economy (wouldn't want to live there)
Mabou
Malignant Cove
Meat Cove
Memory Lane
Necum Teuch
Paradise
Old Barns
Pleasantville
Port Bickerton
Prospect
Pugwash
Scotsburn
Shag Harbour
Sissiboo Falls
Tatamagouche
The Hawk
The Ovens
Upper Economy

3 - Great Britain

By the way - if you don't believe me, I CAN prove that all of these
are real places! Britain is a small island with far more than its
share of funny place names!

TOWN (COUNTY)

Above Church
Antingham (Norfolk)
Apes Hall, Cambs.
Apethorpe.
Ashby de-la-Zouch.
Askham Richard, Yorks.
Backlass, Scotland
Badcall, Highland, Scotland
Badlipster, Scotland
Bagshot.
Bakebare (Grampian, Scot.)
Banningham (Norfolk)
Barton-in-the-beans.
Bedburn (Durham)
Bicker.
Binkle
Bishops Itchington (unk)
Bisley.
Bitchfield
Blackadder (Borders, Scot.)
Blackboys, East Sussex
Black Dog (Devon)
Blatherwick.
Blurton
Bookham (Surrey)
Boot
Borgue, Scotland
Bossingham, Kent
Boysack (Tayside, Scot.)
Braemore, Scotland
Braintree, Essex
Breach, Kent
Breascleit, Isle Of Lewis
Broad Laying, West Berks.
Broadrashes (Grampian, Scot.)
Brokenborough (Avon)
Brown Willey (Cornwall)
Bruisyard
Bumble's Green, Essex
Burnham, Norfolk
Burnham Overy Town, Norfolk
Burnt Houses (Co. Durham)
Busta
Butt's Green, Essex
Butterburn, Northumb.
California, Norfolk
Cannard's Grave, Somerset
Carlingcott, Avon
Castle Rising, Norfolk
Catbrain
Caynham (Shrops.)
Cheatham, Manchester
Chicksands (Beds.)
Clappers (Lothian, Scot)
Clapworthy (Devon)
Clashban, Scotland
Clasmore, Scotland
Climpy (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Cock Alley, Derbyshire
Cockermouth
Coed Morgan
Cotgrave.
Cow Beech, East Sussex
Cowbit (Lincs.)
Cowbeech
Crackpot (North Yorks.) See picture below!
Crank
Cross O' Th' Hands
Crowd Hill, Hamps.
Cults (three of them: )
Devizes (Wilts.)
Dildawn
Diss (Norfolk)
Dog Village
Dollarbeg (Fife, Scotland)
Dorket Head
Dorking, Surrey
Drunkendub
Drymen
Dubheads
Duck End (Essex)
Duffus (Grampian, Scot.)
Effingham (Surrey)
Egmere (Norfolk)
Egypt (Hamps.)
Elephant And Castle (London)
Eye (Peterborough)
Eye (Suffolk)
Fakenham (Norfolk)
Fans (Borders, Scot.)
Far Gearstones (Lancs.)
Fatfield (Tyne & Wear)
Fattahead (Aberdeen)
Felldownhead (Devon)
Fetcham (Surrey)
Fiddler's Hamlet, Essex
Filgrave, Bucks.
Fingringhoe, Essex
Flash, Near Duxton
Floors, Grampian, Scot.
Folly Gate, Devon
Foulden, Lothian, Scot.
Foul Mile, East Sussex
Four Gotes.
Framingham, Norfolk
Freeby.
Frenchbeer, Dartmoor
Frisby On The Wreake, Leics.
Frog Pool, Droitwich Spa
Frogpool, Redruth
Gamblingay.
Gass
Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
Godolphin Cross (Somerset)
Goosey (Oxfords.)
Gospel End
Great Snoring (Norfolk)
Greetham.
Gurney Slade (Avon)
Ham and Sandwich (Kent)
Hampton Lovett
Happisburgh Common, Norfolk
Hare Hatch
Helpringham.
Hempnall (Norfolk)
Hempton, Norfolk
Herodsfoot (Cornwall)
Herringfleet (Norfolk)
Hetton-le-Hole (Co. Durham)
High Ham (Somerset)
High Wych
Hinderwell (Yorkshire)
Hoe (Norfolk)
Hook-a-gate, Shrops.
Hopton Wafers (Shrops.)
Horsey, Norfolk
Hoveringham
Hundred End
Hurliness, Scotland
Inkpen
Inkstack, Scotland
Intake, S. Yorks.
Irthlingborough (Northants.)
Jump, So. Yorks
Kennyhill (Norfolk)
Killiecrankie (Tayside, Scot.)
Kilmahog (Central Scotland)
Kilmany (Fife, Scot.)
Kirby-le-soken, Essex
Kirkstyle, Scotland
Knockdown (Avon)
Knockin (Shrops.)
Knocksharry, Isle Of Man
Land of Nod, Devon
Leadenham
Leasingham
Leatherhead, Exeter
Limpenhoe, Norfolk
Little Horwood, Bucks.
Little Snoring, Norfolk
Little Sodbury, Avon
Little Town, Cumbria
Little Wratting, Cambs.
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, Anglesy, Wales
Long Waste, Shrops.
Loose, Kent
Lost, Grampian
Lower Down, Shrops.
Mindrum, Northumberland
Mockbeggar, Kent
Mold, Flintshire
More
Morphie
Mousehole, Cornwall
Much Birsh, Herefords.
Much Hadham, Herts.
Much Hoole, Lancs.
Mucking, Essex
Muddles Green, Sussex
Much Haddam, Cambs.
Nasty, Herts.
Nether Poppleton, North Yorkshire
New Invention, Wales
Nitshill, Glasgow
No Man's Health.
Nork
North Piddle (Worcs.)
Nun Monkton
Old Scone
Oldwhat
Old Wives Lees
Oliver's Battery
Pant-Pastynog
Pant-y-fridd, Wales
Peasedown St. John, Wilts.
Penistone
Petts Bottom (Kent)
Pickwell.
Piddlehinton, Dorset
Pidley, Cambs.
Pinchbeck (Lincs.)
Pishill, Bucks.
Pity Me, Co. Durham
Pixey Green, Suffolk
Pokesdown, Dorset
Polyphant (Cornwall)
Portknockie, Grampian, Scotland
Pott Row, Norfolk
Pratt's Bottom
Pucklechurch (Avon)
Puddledock (Norfolk)
Puddletown (Dorset)
Pusey
Quabbs, Shrops.
Ramsbottom, Lancashire
Ratby.
Rougham, Norfolk
Ryton, Tyne & Wear
Sandwich, Kent
Scaldwell, Northants.
Scremerston, Berwick-Upon-Tweed
Sexhow, N. Yorks.
Shelve, Shrops.
Sheringham, Norfolk
Shop, Cornwall
Shover's Green, East Sussex
Sillyearn, Grampian, Scot.
Simonsbath, Somerset
Six Mile Bottom, Cambs.
Skullomie
Slapton (Bucks.)
Slickly, Scotland
Slip End (Beds.)
Snailbeach, Shrops.
Snape
Snape Watering
Snig's End (Gloucs.)
Soar
Sockburn (Co. Durham)
Souldrop.
South Flobbets
Sparrowpit
Spital In The Street
Spott (Lothian, Scot.)
Stain, Scotland
Staines, Middlesex
Staylittle
Steeple Bumpstead (Cambs.)
Stiffkey (Norfolk)
Stix
Stratton Strawless (Norfolk)
Swarby.
Sway
Swine, Humberside
Swinefleet
Swineshead, Lincs.
Tarring Neville
Teasses
Tees
Test, Hamps.
The Bog, Shrops.
The Cronk, Isle Of Man
The Edge, Derbyshire
The Mumbles, Glamorgan
The Shoe, Wiltshire
Thong, Kent
Three Holes,
Tick Fen, Cambs.
Ticklerton, Shrops.
Tiltups End, Avon
Titchwell, Norfolk
Titley, Herts.
Titsey, Surrey
Titson, Cornwall
Tittensor, Staffs.
Yixover.
Tokers Green, Bucks.
Tongue, Scotland
Top End, Beds.
Tosside, Lancs.
Toy's Hill, Kent
Tradespark (Highlands, Scot.)
Trimingham, Norfolk
Turner's Puddle (Dorset)
Twatt (Orkney and Shetland)
Twelveheads (Cornwall)
Tyringham (Bucks.)
Underriver, Kent
Unthank
Upend
Upper, Middle and Lower Assendon
Upper Dicker
Upper Tooting
Warboys (Cambs.)
Warcop
Warboys.
Washaway (Cornwall)
Watchet (Somerset)
Waterhouses (Durham & another in Staffs.)
Weasenham All Saints (Norfolk)
Wendy (Cambs.)
Wetwang With Fimber, Yorkshire
Whaplode.
Wide Open
Willey (shrops.)
Windy Yet (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Witham On The Hill.
Wormegay (Norfolk)
Wormwood Scrubs (London)
Wressle, Humberside
Yelling (Cambs.)

Thanks to Laurie from Toronto, Canada, for sending in this picture of her boyfriend by the SIGN to the town of CRACKPOT in England!

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