Keswick

[-SharonA-]

How is this pronounced??
Kes - Wick or Kes - Ick?

[chrissa1]

There is, jackdaw.

[marval]

Hoveton in Norfolk is pronounced Huffton.

[Jackdaw33]

I remember when I was a student at Durham in the early 70s we would sometimes drive up to drink in The Rat at Anick.

[tonyav]

There is an area in my nearest town called Caldmore, everyone calls it Calma ( Calm a ).

[Jackdaw33]

Odd that the L is not pronounced in Alnwick yet is in Alnmouth, just a few miles away.

[Jackdaw33]

There is also a district in South Shields called Chichester but pronounced Chy chester.

[JimF]

Correct, and it's Aln-mouth, not Aln-muth.

[murraymints]

wymondham in Norfolk..windam , costessey ..cossy.....

[Canary42]

Norfolk again - Stiffkey pronounced Stukey, Hunstanton as Hunstun.

[maggiebee]

Used to drive past a farm on my way to work on Kirriemuir. It was signposted Ballinshoe. However I am reliable informed it's Bellshay.

[retrocop]

fbg40
I won't say what my family thinks of Keswick, Ontario. I've passed through there many times.They live just down the road( Yonge St) in Queensville.

[New Judge]

My favourite is Woolfardisworthy in Devon:

http://www.thenorthdevonfocus.co.uk/Woolsery.htm

Then of course there's the surname "Featherstonehaugh" (pronounced "Fanshaw") and the Belvoir (pronounced "Beevor") Hunt.

[New Judge]

And I forgot Magdalen (Maudlen) College at Oxford.