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Funny place names
Posted: 12/04/2005 - 0:55
by tas
For UK persons....
Go here:
http://places.jump-around.com/closest/
Type your postcode and see the results....
The results for Doncaster (DN4) were:
Shafton Two Gates (map)
13.5 miles
Penistone (map)
21.7 miles
Shatton Moor (map)
27.6 miles
Upperthong (map)
28.4 miles
Fartown (map)
29.2 miles
Camp Town (map)
29.3 miles
Jughole wood (map)
31.9 miles
Dick Slack (map)
38.3 miles
Fanny Hands Lane (map)
38.8 miles
Beaver Dyke (map)
39.8 miles
CLASSICS ALL OF EM!
Posted: 12/04/2005 - 7:52
by Chappers
The selection for Grimsby (DN31):
Rimswell (map)
12.4 miles
Poke Holes (map)
13.2 miles
Fanny Hands Lane (map)
13.5 miles
Wetwang (map)
37.1 miles
Butt Mound (map)
43.1 miles
Cum Hag Wood (map)
52.2 miles
Shafton Two Gates (map)
54.4 miles
Camp Town (map)
62.3 miles
Penistone (map)
63.9 miles
Smoker's Hole (map)
64.9 miles
Posted: 12/04/2005 - 9:29
by Subzero
Theres a place in wales called twt hill, and a street in dun(g)dee called stench avenue!!
Posted: 12/04/2005 - 16:06
by Waz
Some of mine were the same as Neil's, but here's what I got for my postcode in sunny (!) Manchester:
Nob End (map)
10.8 miles
Ramsbottom (map)
15.1 miles
Butty Moss (map)
15.8 miles
Hole Bottom (map)
19.6 miles
Smallwood (map)
21.7 miles
Bottom Flash (map)
22.5 miles
Posted: 12/04/2005 - 17:47
by dan gillgrass
Hard Crag (map)
5.7 miles
Breasty Haw (map)
9.7 miles
Randy Pike (map)
14.8 miles
Tongue Head (map)
19.0 miles
Gaping Gill (map)
29.1 miles
Cocklick End (map)
30.4 miles
Cockermouth (map)
34.0 miles
Great Cockup (map)
34.4 miles
Little Cockup (map)
34.5 miles
Willy Knot (map)
36.2 miles
Posted: 18/04/2005 - 9:27
by merman
Six Mile Bottom
6.2 miles
(Note: it's six miles from Cambridge at the bottom of a hill. Further along is Nine Mile Hill...)
Shingay
13.2 miles
Shaftenhoe End
13.6 miles
Bummers Hill
19.6 miles
Nasty
22.8 miles
Feltwell
24.1 miles
Cocks Green
25.1 miles
Minges
26.6 miles
Salters Lode
27.1 miles
(Note: a lode is a small river channel, many of which were dug by the Romans in this area)
Fishpits (map)
29.5 miles
(OI! I had a wash last week, I'm not that smelly!)