Ancestors’ Locales that make you smile

[BumbleB]

I wonder what the name Auphe Hole (Auf Hole) signifies?  Near Cotton Stones in Yorkshire.

[andrewalston]

And just to the east of Stony Heap was a row of miners cottages called 'Happy Land'.

That name is stuck in my brain as the name of an Edinburgh house of ill-repute in "McLevy", a series of stories from Radio 4. Well worth a listen; all the episodes are available from the BBC website.

In my home town we have an area known as Botany Bay, which sounds marvellous until you know its name derives from the type of characters who frequented its canal basin.

We no longer have "sh*t Pot Row", a terrace without back doors, so the only option was to carry chamber pots out into the street and round the end of the block.

I found one of my lot in service at "Paradise Farm" in Leyland. On the same sheet was a place called "Purgatory". I'm sure estate agents have since got rid of that name!

[Top-of-the-hill]

  We don't seem to have many of those descriptive place names round here, but there are farms with names like Poorstart, Coldharbour and Hearts Delight, which I suppose are relatively recent. Finglesham and Kittington are quite pretty. There are not many double-barrelled names, except a few like Upper and Lower Hardres, and  Stelling Minnis (ancestral territory!). The Minnis part means common land, from an Anglo Saxon root.

[Gadget]

I've nothing very funny but a brother of my grt grandfather lived at a farm called Cherry Orchard  which I think is a lovely name.  (not the Chekhov one!)

It's on the other side of the river from  The Rock where some other ancestors lived.

Also a few at World's End!

 

[Treetotal]

My OH doesn't like to be reminded that an ancestor of mine lived down "Clean Alley" whilst in the same era, OH's ancestor lived down "Sewer Lane"   
Carol

[Viktoria]

I lived in Snailbeach, Shropshire.
Not by the sea but beach is a corruption of “ batch “ a deep valley as in Church Pulverbatch ,near Church Stretton.
Viktoria.

Crows’ Nest Dingle,
Rattlinghope
Roman Gravels .
Lord’s Hill.
The Bog