#funny place names

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[injuries-in-dust]

Who's up for a road trip?

[tismrot]

Names of English places that I, a foreigner, find amusing.

As a Norwegian, I know that "by" just means "city", it's still funny

[neoclassicalblobphilosopher]

Passed a farm called Cockland nook and thought it was funny and then IMMEDIATELY passed another farm called High Dyke Farm and lost my fucking shit and had to lie to my mum about what I was laughing at. Cockland Nook and High Dyke Farm

[lifearoundtheworld]

Place Names Around the World

Emo, Ontario, Canada

[sohannabarberaesque]

Yes, Scooby-Doo fans, there really IS such a town as Daphne--Alabama. To wit:

And, for good measure, a Velma, Oklahoma:

Not to mention Velma, Mississippi (for equally good measure):

[rawringthroughthetwenties]

Emo Village is Real

I know pretty  much everyone on Irish Tumblr seems to have come across my post about the unintentionally scary Welcome to Kill Village sign but I’d like to bring to your attention that we also have Emo Village in Co. Laois, Ireland. I always wonder if tourists drive through there expecting everyone to be blaring MCR and only ending their texts in Rawr XD. The headlines about that place are hilarious.

Emo is also the name of a well known petrol station chain here but for some reason there are no Emo petrol stations actually in Emo.

My fave thing about the petrol stations is that their logo unintentionally kinda looks like those emo side fringes:

I think I might start a Tumblr series on funny place names here 

[rubberducksuspicious]

So I heard about a place called Crackpot in the UK, which means 'deep hole cows frequent.' It made me curious about the origin of other name placed in the UK, and got curious about the origins. I fell down a rabbit hole and started reading about how you can guess what time period the place may be from, due to it's name.

So apparently if a place has 'pen' (means hill, I think) in it, like Penge, it could date back to the Celtic period. Same if a place has 'combe' (came from a similar sounding word meaning valley.) in it, like Salcombe.

The Romans changed the names of some places by combining some Celtic and Latin words. I think Lincoln came from a celtic word meaning pool and a Latin word meaning colony.

I can't remeber how it linked to Romans, but places that have 'cester' 'chester' and 'caster' are linked too. So places like Gloucester, Manchester and Colchester are linked to the Romans.

Places that end in 'sex' like Sussex are likely to be linked to Anglo-Saxons.

Places linked to the Norman's are mostly named after people that owned that piece of land. The are a few places that end in 'ville' linked to this period, that means settlement. I can't remember the examples of the places given.

Just thought this was an intresting nugget of information. Might look into the origins of other countries when I have a task I need to do, but procrastinate instead ans look up shit.