English Village Names Challenge

choux | 11:16 Mon 26th Jun 2023 | ChatterBank

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I googled the actor Denis Lill today and his Wiki page shows he lives in the charming, small village of Ryme Intrinsica in Dorset. That encouraged me to look further and I found other villages called Whitchurch Canonicorum and Toller Porcorum.

There is a list of them and I was amused to see that, alphabetically, Beer Hackett is followed by Belchalwell! The 12 Winterborne somethings must cover quite an area and that excludes 2 Wnterbournes...

I cannot recall seeing such quaint names before. Does anyone know of equally rich counties?

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brainiac

Not that far from me is Stanley Pontlarge

Moorea7

Wonder how the whales get to Blubberhouses in North Yorkshire?

MWG14

Foul Anchor is near us.

Ken4155

About 10 miles from Burnley, on the wrong side of the Lancashire/Yorkshire border, is a village by the name of Mytholmroyd. I first heard of it when i worked at a wholesale chemist and i remember my first thought being, "That sounds like something you'd visit the doctor for." :-)

choux

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Bet you could get a cream for that, Ken. Balmy innit.

Ken4155

Mytholmroyd is actually in the Luddendenfoot ward (Calder Vale). Something else you could probably get cream for :-)

choux

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Apparently, some parishes had no concerns of the cost of signwriting ;)