Ancestors’ Locales that make you smile

[Nanna52]

I live near Koo Wee Rup and Nar Nar Goon.  Down the road is Bunyip and Garfield on the way to Poowong.
My grandfather was born in Newtown, plenty of them around, but one of his brothers was born at Browns Digging.  Yes they were on the goldfields.

[oldfashionedgirl]

I grew up in a small village in central Scotland called Drymen.

Pronounced ‘Drimen’ but reads as ‘Dry men’.

I didn’t appreciate the countryside as a teenager and there was absolutely nothing to do other than underage drink in one of its FOUR pubs !

[JenB]

G-g- grandfather Reed lived at Boggle Hole (in County Durham, not the better known Yorkshire one).

[PurdeyB]

Back in the 70s before the Yorkshire one was quite so well known, we were en route to Robin Hood's Bay when my aunt spotted the sign post for Boggle Hole and insisted we stopped. I have vague memories of clambering down to the beach.

An ancestor of mine lived at Foulgate Nook near Ripon in North Yorkshire, which sounds unpleasant and cosy at the same time.

[DianaCanada]

One of my ancestors was born in Blacko, Lancashire - wonder where the name came from (Wiki entry does not include that info.).

[Jebber]

One of my great grandmothers was born between villages in The Soils AKA Soils Lane.

There is a lane in  Swanage called Darkie Lane, a visitor complained last year that it was racist and wanted renamed.

Dorset has some strange names, often mentioned are Puddletown, also Piddletrenthide, named after the river Piddle.

I used to visit  a Garden Centre in God’s Blessing Lane

[Roobarb]

When I was a child we used to visit relatives in the County Durham area my mother came from and I was fascinated by the names of the villages we passed through, particularly one called Pity Me. I was told at the time that its name was due to it being in an area of mining villages but Google offers other theories.

There are other strangely named places around there such as Quaking Houses, Stony Heap, and the less charming Butsfield!

(I'm still laughing at the ones Carol mentioned  )

[JohninSussex]

My mother lived in an actually planned town in Sussex - Peacehaven.  A very nice name I always thought.

But originally "planned" to be called New Anzac on Sea.  A change perhaps from looking back in gratitude to the wartime effort, towards looking into the future - which those who came to occupy the Prefabs at first, and then the bungalows that replaced them, were doing.

[JenB]

There are other strangely named places around there such as Quaking Houses, Stony Heap, and the less charming Butsfield!

Just up the road from Stony Heap is a little place called East Castle. For some reason it was known in the past by the locals as 'The Bantling'. And just to the east of Stony Heap was a row of miners cottages called 'Happy Land'.
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