Haltwhistle
Hexham
Ballinamallard
Swindon
Kettlewell
Wasdale Head
Workington
Mallwyd
Furnace
Peebles
Crumlin
Nuneaton
Wolverhampton
Thrapston
Thornaby
Darlington
Hartlepool
West Woodburn
Ecclefechan
Alnwick
Hay-on-Wye
Llanybydder
Kidderminster
Fawsley
Abergavenny
Wisbech
Long Eaton
North Hykeham
Coningsby
Horncastle
Worksop
Thirsk
Bridlington
Hunmanby
Hutton-le-Hole
Kirkbymoorside
Northallerton
Masham
Bowness-on-Windermere
Seascale
Howtown
Pooley Bridge
Penrith
Middleton-in-Teesdale
Amble
Sanquhar
Cumnock
Troon
Dalmellington
Alloa
Bridge of Earn
Lochgoilhead
Balquhidder
Dalwhinnie
Balloo
Moy
Sixmilecross
Newbuildings
Fivemiletown
Ballygawley
Gweedore
Llandysul
Narberth
Machynlleth
Dyffryn
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant
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Before we continue with more posts about our European adventure, I thought this would be a fun game to play. I just looked on Google maps and typed up a bunch of names from the United Kingdom. Just so you know, I did used names from Scotland, Ireland and Wales, just to make it more interesting. Try and see if you can figure out which of those are real and which ones aren’t…
*Don’t read the hint below until you at least try to play the game.*
***HINT***
(Every single one of those names is a real place in the United Kingdom. I didn’t make any of them up. I was going to make some up and throw them in, but really, can anybody make up more awesome names for real places than the ones on the list right there? I didn’t even zoom in on the maps very far. These are all fairly large towns. If I had zoomed in farther, I would be willing to bet that we would find some awesome place names. Maybe you should try doing that. Get to know your world a little better. I know we saw some awesome names while we were cruising around the English countryside )…
Pouring My Art Out 
All of them
did you do that without cheating?
Hahahahahahahahaha
I know, right?
right….amazingly funny. Yesterday I created a pink squirrel – not the drink, but the image of one. Uh oh.
there is a drink called the pink squirrel????
There used to be…unless the squirrels are leading me astray.
They probably drank them all.
yes indeedy, I bet the squirrels did drink them all.
never mix alcohol and crack… bad squirrels
cracked/crackers
those either
the moooooed
now I am getting the squirrels and the cows mixed up
you are? I just mixed up the posts: squirrels, cows …just what was I saying?
I have no idea, but if I see cows running through the tree branches, I am going to freak out…
think pink cows squirrels what have you…don’t worry it’s all in fun.
okey dokey
My fav name for a British town is Ilfracombe. Still haven’t figured out how to pronounce it, but I want to visit one day. And there’s a place in Wales called The Mumbles. Wonder if they have mumbling whales?
I’ve heard of singing whales…
Such a delightful mongrel of a language, English!
It really is!
We have some dandies here too. For instance from Newfoundland we find these:
Come by Chance (population 247)
Cow Head (population 475)
Cupids (population 761)
Dildo (population 24,671)
Happy Adventure (population 219)
Happy Valley- Goose Bay (population 7, 552)
Heart’s Content (population 375)
Heart’s Delight- Islington (population 704)
Heart’s Desire (population 223)
Lawn (population 672)
Leading Tickles (population 337)
Tilting (population 204)
😀
What do they call people from Dildo… Dildoites? Dildodians? Dildopudlians? Dildonians???
That question almost got me thrown in jail one day. Ha! I loaded a full load of frozen cod out of a fish plant in Dildo and had proceeded to the US border – going to Boston. It was night time and the customs agent was a new young woman and she had a chip on her shoulder. I gave her the documentation and she accused me of putting a false name on it to make her look foolish. She made me back into the dock and she took two hours going through the trailer and tractor. I objected and even showed her the town on the map. She still didn’t believe me. It wasn’t until one of her colleagues – a guy that I knew from regular crossings – came in to work and assured her they got regular shipments from Dildo, that she let me go.
I think I heard that one before, and it still kills me… I wish there was a factory there making adult sex toys…
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yup
I live near a small town called Lower Upham (in Hampshire) which I always think must have been named originally by someone with a sense of humour.
I live in Upper Lowham! What are the odds???
I thought I would prove my brilliance,by knowingly saying that all are real places; I’ve been to many of them personally. A friend who was visiting from Scotland just last week actually lives in Bowness-on-Windermere.
Then saw your “hint.” I realized that I was too late even being early to this post.
But … Ummmm, Art? If you give the answer, it is not a “hint” — it’s the answer.
This is just one of my little mind games to keep people distracted while I take over the planet.
Next you could do a list of towns in the UK and ask folks to name which one has not been the setting for a murder on PBS.
I do like that idea, but I have to take all these people to France now!
I love France. Except the language. That sucks.
But it is the language of love… and desserts…
I lived with it. For FIVE years. It is a very difficult language. Everything sounds lovely. but everything sounds exactly the same. I had a hilarious trip to the vet when they were asking me if my dog had glass in his GI tract. I was very confused until well into my visit I realized that the word for glass — vert is the same as the word for worm — vert. It’s also the same as the word for green. It was maddening.
maybe he had a green glass worm…
Merde.
oh my
But I see some of the shows before they air over here, Elyse. I have an unfair advantage.
you always do…
You are going to have to try to kill me first when you take over the world, Art.
No way… I need somebody who knows what is going to happen over here before the rest of us.
I see. Double agent kind of stuff. What time do I rendezvous with Mr. Bond?
Well, you should know that better than I do… HA!
And you’re married to a Brit so obviously you know where the bodies are buried.
The Yorkshire moors are the best place to put them.
They stay fresh
when you get into fights, do you put on red and blue coats? HA!
Well, the Boffin became naturalized over here, so he can reenact the Revolution in his brain.
I do that in my brain with our civil war… but I put on a gray t-shirt and blue jeans first…
Do the crack squirrels wear uniforms?
not even regular clothes…
Shock troops, then.
infiltrators…
It would seem clear that they are all real names. But I do think a better game would be to make up most and throw in a real one and see if we can spot it. BTW, it’s easy to make up Welsh city names. Just think of any city and substitue a “y” or a “w” for every vowel. For instance, I was born in the cuty of Beaumont. In Wales that would be Bywwmynt.
And Beaumont is a cutie of a city by the way. Since I now “type” with my left hand on a virtual keyboard, one could create a very humorous blog out of my typos alone. I used to be a very accurate touch typist, but with the loss of the use if my dominant right hand I am prone to many, many errors. But even after all these years, I am arrogant enough to assume I have typed everything correctly. So too often I do not read before posting. . .Bumbershoot!
. . .”of” my right hand. . .Bumbershoot!
Picklesnout!
I never read before I post or reply to comments… and even with both hands… well, on finger on each hand… I am an awful typist… and can barely string two words together in my native language anyway.
I just threw this post in because I love the English names… you might be giving me more credit than I deserve.
Take whatever credit you can get, as long as the interest rate is favorable. BTW, Bumbershoot has become my respectable swearword of choice. It works for me, although picklesnout might also work. I’ll have to try it out. I’ll let you know.
Please do… let me know, I mean