(music) (10 hours) Unusual British Town Names Trivia Tuesday LMBYTS #1487 Jason Newland 11th November 2025

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. As soon as I start the recording then he jumps off the sofa and comes and sits next to me. I don't know why, I don't know why. Okay my name is Jason Newland, please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

And today is Trivia Tuesday. Trivia, Trivia, Trivia, Trivia Tuesday. So what was I going to say? It hasn't been raining today which has been good.

In fact it's been quite mild temperature wise. But last night, last night it was a bit chilly, a bit chilly on me willy it was. But it is November, it's kind of supposed to be cold.

I'm still watching Ozark, I'm now in season two, about I think number episode five or something on season two. So I'm probably watching a couple of episodes a day. They do last about an hour each so I think two's easily enough really.

Made no progression with the book, in fact I'm just going to stop talking about the book because there's a lot to do. I just there is. And I still I mean, if you're wondering what I'm talking about, you kind of need to listen to yesterday's yesterday's episode of boring objects.

But basically I'm kind of looking at potentially, possibly, maybe writing a book and basing it on the transcripts from the last seven and a half years. And there's two types of books. Well, I guess two general things.

I'm thinking of doing a journal. And because I transcribe every episode I do. Go through the I use chat GPT just to go through the transcript and to bring out the bullet points verbatim.

So I don't want you know, don't want chat GPT adding its own stuff. And I will double check all that as well. Make sure it's my words.

And I'll format in a journal style. So maybe do one for 2018, one for 2019, 2021, 22, 23, 24, 25. So in January, I will release the previous year's journal.

I don't quite know how I'm going to do it, to be honest with you. And yeah, I don't know how I'm going to do it. I kind of know but I don't.

Yeah, so that that's it. I haven't done anything towards created. Yeah, I've not done anything today for it.

I just remembered I've got laundry. I washed most of my t shirts and some underwear and my little nightdress. It's not my nightdress that I wear.

Wow. It's kind of like a nightdress really my nightie. So I washed my nightie and just brings up visuals of memories of nighties.

Pink frilly nighties. So yeah, it's not quite like that. But if I chose to wear a frilly pink nightie, that's my business.

And I'm allowed to. And it's not because the society's changed and more open. It's because I've never cared what other people thought.

Never in my life. Have I? That's what I do to a degree. But generally, if I want to wear something that other people don't like, I will wear it.

In fact, if someone says in the past, someone said that I shouldn't wear something, then I'd probably go out my way to wear it. I'm not like that anymore. I'm a bit more a bit more sophisticated within myself.

A bit more amenable to societal rules. I'm so full of crap today. So anyway, so today ain't really done much.

Woke up, got out of bed. The thing is, because I've been watching Big Brother every night. The last week is kind of the worst week of Big Brother.

Because generally, they're all getting on. They're getting letters from home to read out, getting phone calls and stuff like that and all crying. I don't know why they're crying, but they're crying because they haven't seen their mummies and daddies for like six weeks.

I mean, these are adults. They're not little kids. These are adults.

I don't get it. I really don't. Yeah, I don't.

I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. And I just find it a little bit, a little bit too saccharine, maybe, just for me. Maybe I'm a cold, horrible old man, but I just find it a little bit, maybe not false, but it seems a bit false.

It seems a bit put on, but again, I might be wrong. But I've seen it, you know, over two decades of seeing this, seeing people in the last week, or even in a few last previous weeks. I just want to talk to my mummy, my mama.

It's like, but you're 48 years old. It's, I mean, I can understand people missing people, but if I was in the Big Brother house, I wouldn't miss anybody apart from Vinnie. He's the only person I would miss.

I wouldn't miss any humans, not for just six weeks. Six weeks is no time at all. There's no one I'd miss.

I think the last time I missed anyone was when I started a job at, it was my last insurance job, was my last job actually. And my nan was still alive. And I think I did, because of the hours I was doing, I didn't get to see my nan for probably four weeks, five weeks maybe.

And I was missing her because I'd normally go and see her every week because I didn't live in her town. But that was the last time, apart from obviously when she left, I missed her. I missed my friend when he left as well.

I suppose I missed Uncle Sausages when he left. But I'm talking about people that were alive. There's no one I would miss for six weeks.

A couple of years, I might think, oh, I wonder how, what's his name's doing? And spoken to them for a little while. And I call them up and they've changed their number, they've moved to a different country. The things people would do to avoid me.

So yeah, and then there's that whole, like, they're sitting around a table and big brother telling each other what an amazing experience it's been and how to be friends for life. I don't know. It's not that I want them to all be arguing.

I don't. Maybe a little bit, but yeah, I don't really, I don't enjoy the last week because it's also the end and never been a big fan of endings. Not really.

I mean, sometimes, but you know, just generally. I've enjoyed dates that ended sometimes. I remember this, I had this date and I was helping out in the comedy club.

This was like late nineties. And my friend just asked me, could I help out on the phones to take bookings? It was easy. Just basically I want to book a table for three or five and that was it.

It was really simple to put it in a book. So I did that for the afternoon and I got chatting to a lady and we hit it off on the phone and she had to pay a deposit. So I think it was coming up to Christmas or something, or it was for like a party, a party thing.

So she had to give 50%. It might be in a works do, I can't remember. Anyway, she, I said, well, if you come in, you can just pay it, either pay a check or you can just pay the cash.

And she said, will you be there? And I said, yeah, I suppose. So she said, well, I can't get in till after work hours. I said, well, I'll be here.

I'll be here in the evening anyway, cause it's a Wednesday night and I was going to stick around to watch the comedy. So she came, I said, we could, you know, and she said, well, we could have something to eat. I suppose.

So she came in, we did not get on at all in person, like at all. We both knew it, but she would not leave. She would not leave.

She, I don't know why she would not go. Even to the point is I had to, I got a taxi to take her to the train station to make sure she got on a train to go back to wherever she lived. Cause I want to be a gentleman, not just leave her stranded, but just like, we really, she was just kind of rude to me right from the start.

But then some people like that, don't they? They like to be rude to each other. Sort of start off by being like verbally abusive, like in a jokey way. I'm not, I can't say I've ever really been into that.

Not, well, maybe a little bit, but not, not before getting to know the person. I don't think I'd start off in that direction. Yeah, it was, that was a strange one.

There was another, another lady that I met at the club and she, she wanted to, I think we met at the club and then she, we, she came again to see me cause she had to leave early. Then she came back and said, do you remember me? I said, yeah, yeah, sure. What's my name then? And I said, of course I remember your name.

Wait a sec. I went upstairs and looked through the book for the, the, um, the book of bookings, cause it had only been like two weeks since she'd last been there. And I thought, oh, I remember now.

Cause the booking was in her name. So we'd, we'd kind of gotten, got the chat in the last time. And she said, sorry about last time.

I just had to go. I've got an emergency, I had to leave. I said, okay.

And we, I got her, what happened there? I think, yeah, I think she left and we went, we went out for a, um, went out for a drink. Oh yeah. I remember she, so we, we got really well and kind of like, you know, we swapped numbers and then she went home and I went home and, um, but then, then we decided to go for a drink.

So she was phoning me and she was getting annoyed because she wanted to go somewhere expensive and I didn't have any money. And, uh, at one point she said, you don't expect me to pay for everything, do you? I said, no, no, no. Just, just, you know, I don't want to go there.

You know, I was trying to like find a way out of going somewhere that I couldn't afford to pay. Cause you know, based on the era, the century that I was brought up, the man generally would be expected to pay. That might've changed now.

I don't know. I don't even remember the women still wear bras. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I've got no idea.

I don't, I don't know what, I can't remember the last time I actually saw a female. It's 12 years ago, I think. And they're still around.

I'm sure they are, but they still wear earrings. They still, still, uh, still have eyelashes. I had one girlfriend.

She, she used to paint her toenails. Yet she always wore socks. What possible point? What, what, why? Why? It makes me feel good.

I can't, I can't argue on that one, but just, yeah. I actually, I took a girlfriend back to my dad's and we stayed for a couple of days, just got out of London for a weekend when I was a security guard and we stayed in the caravan, my dad's caravan. And she thought it'd be funny to paint my nails, my toenails, not my fingernails.

So she, she painted my toenails and I was fine with it. If that's what she wanted to do, let her do it. And then we probably held hands for an hour or so afterwards.

I don't know, whatever we did. I went out and I forgot that I had my fingernails, my toenails were done. We're going to the beach and she said, let's just go into the sea.

I said, I've got, I've got, I've got swimming trunks because we was on the beach. I suppose we'd have to be on a beach in order to go into the sea, wouldn't we? Unless we were on a boat, but you know, we was on a beach and she said, well, we don't have to go in the sea as in like swimming, just pull you, because I think I might have had, no, I wouldn't have worn shorts even then.

So just roll your, roll your trousers up and just take our socks off and we'll just like paddle, just go up to our ankles.

I said, okay. She looked way too excited about doing this, bearing in mind she was 18 years old. I was 25, I think.

And I was like, why are you so excited about having your, in being in the sea? And it wasn't a nice, it wasn't a nice beach. It was pebbles and a little bit of a rubbish beach, really. She seemed way too pleased with herself that she was going to be going into the sea, like it was something exciting.

And I didn't get it because she was half Italian. So she'd spent pretty much all of her holidays growing up in the growing up in Italy on Italian beaches. And I'm guessing, I don't know, but I'm guessing the Italian beaches are possibly nicer than the one that we were on.

So I said, oh, okay. I didn't want to do it, but sometimes you've, you've got to give in, haven't you? I thought for the sake of the marriage, I'll paddle. That's what we call it, like paddling.

Do we call it paddling? Have a paddle, not a paddle, a dip, a dink, a donk, a bunk, not dosing, tossing, a paddle. I think it's paddling. And it's basically just, you just walk in the sea and you go up to, I suppose you can go up to kind of your shins, maybe even your knees, depending on how, you know, how short you are or tall you are or what you're wearing.

So it's a busy beach. It's in the summer, probably July time. And she said, I said, what about the shoes? She said, well, we can just carry them, can't we? Put the socks.

I mean, she wasn't wearing socks. She's, I think she just had, um, what does she have? We used to call them Jesus boots in them days, but the sandals, that's what they were, that's what they were called. And so she was wearing them.

And she said, well, I don't really need to take these off at all. I said, well, if I'm taking mine off, you're taking yours off. She said, but these will protect my feet at the bottom.

I said, what about my feet? She's, then she looked at me, said, look, if you stand on anything sharp, when, when you're like paddling in the sea, it's not going to affect me, is it? I thought that was rude. That's proper rude. Anyway, I thought, okay.

She persuaded me. I said, all right. So I took my, um, I took my socks off.

I took my shoes off and my socks off and I rolled my socks up, put them inside my shoes and probably trainers. And they're wrongly called sneakers in America, but they're trainers. It's the proper name.

And so I'm holding them. I'm kind of walking towards the beach and she said, wait a minute, look over there. What's that? I said, well, it's a, it's a cafe place.

That's in fact, that's where I used to work. She said, well, she said, yeah, that's why I used to do the, um, used to be a bakery and it's like a, it was a restaurant and a bakery and, and yeah, it's got been bought by someone else now. It was an upstairs as well.

People used to have weddings and everything there. And she started laughing and people were staring at us and I thought, why are you bringing attention to us? It's like she started laughing. I said, well, there's nothing funny about having a part-time job.

And I said that the, the ice cream place was, it's still there. It was still there. And that was in memory of the, my old boss's son.

So it's got significance. And actually, cause someone I really used to like and she was laughing. I thought it's very dodgy.

It's like, I know she was young, but I was young as well. And people were looking at us and I said, why, why are you bringing attention to us by laughing like that? Why, why do you want complete strangers staring at us, staring at you? And she said, they're not staring at me. I said, what do you mean? And she pointed at my toes.

And I'd completely forgotten that I had my toenails bright pink and green and yellow and with dots on. Forgot, cause she did it at night. And then we, as I said, held hands for maybe five minutes actually.

But you know, we, I think she might have kissed each other on the cheek and went to sleep. And I just got up like normal. I mean, I'd have an excuse now cause I can't even see my toes, but back then I was slim.

But it's like, I just got up, put my socks on and I went to the bathroom and had a shower. It's weird that I didn't notice, didn't notice them at all. Cause I didn't look, I just didn't even think about it.

So yeah, that was, I forgot about that. Something else she did, and I've got to be very careful how I explain this. Okay.

We were on a train. This is during our dating days. And she was doing something that she shouldn't have been doing in public.

Something that neither of us should be doing in public, but she was the one doing it. Again, I'm not going to go into detail. There were people all around, but just not right next to us.

She thought it'd be funny about five minutes in, 10 minutes in, three minutes in to suddenly push me into the gangway. So I'm standing or crouching down with my trousers at my ankles and people looking, wondering, cause I'm screaming. Cause it was a shock to me.

She's laughing. She'd like to laugh. I like laughing.

Yeah. I like to laugh. I like to smile.

We could be compatible. I like to smile too. Yeah.

I do. I remember we were on another date once. It was a different person and she beat me at, what's that game where you pull stuff out? It was in a pub and she pulled, not Kaplunk.

It's a little bit like Kaplunk, but it's not. It's like you pull things out and you it, eventually it collapses and whoever collapses it is the loser. And I think you put the stuff back on top when you take it out.

Like, yeah, she won and I didn't like it. I didn't, I was not happy. And I didn't even realize that I had that.

Um, I don't know if it's bad sportsmanship or just competitiveness. Didn't really know I had that in me. There was another girlfriend.

I remember we went to an amusement place, like an arcade. And I think I was, I was 25 and she was about 27. And we were playing that game.

You know that game where the, there's a disc and there's two white handles and you basically have to push the disc. It's almost like off the ground. It's like air.

Is it air hockey they call it? I don't know. But you push it and it's not off. It's not, it's not, it's not floating on air, but it just, the way it kind of moves very quick and you have to push it through the slit.

So I had to get, I had to get it into her slit or she had to get it into my slit on my side. And I couldn't, I couldn't get it into her slit. And she kept winning.

Literally, I don't think I got one point. And she found that funny. And I genuinely did not, I didn't find it funny at all.

I was not amused. And I was annoyed for hours afterwards. It's so childish.

You should have let me win. Yeah. I was just embarrassed, I think.

So that's, that's what you can learn from this. If you're going to play a game, play it with someone that you can win against. Otherwise there's no point.

Maybe I'm wrong. I'm just being silly. I'm trying to think of anything else that might have happened.

Well, it's nothing. That's just past stuff, isn't it? Not really. Anything happened today.

I took Vinnie out twice and he's done two poos, which means he doesn't need to do another one. I have no idea why I was talking about that. Just had screaming in the garden.

So I had to take a quick break, move the stuff off the railings in the window. So I could close the curtains. And I thought while I'm doing that, I might as well get the laundry out of the washing machine, hang that up in the bedroom.

Again, on the curtain rails, got all the windows open. And the heating might be on, I don't know. Which brings me very unneatly.

Oh, I forgot. I forgot. I didn't forget.

I just well, I suppose I clearly did forget. Oh, excuse me. Right, let's have a look.

So look, what have I got? Okay, what we got? What we got? So I want to say thank you. I did post it but say huge thanks to Cheryl for your PayPal gift. Thank you.

I couldn't send a message. I went into your Facebook page and I wasn't able to send you a message on that. And I didn't have an email address.

So I just want to say thank you. And I have posted it on the Facebook group, Jason Newlands Bowling Group, which you can join if you like. Yeah.

Also, any questions for this week's Q&A Friday, the 14th of November. I posted that on there as well. So I've got one person hope has asked a question.

So if you've got any questions, please go on there. And I've stuck it at the top. It's featured so you can.

Where is it? Plus warming here. That's strange. Wow, please leave a question.

Please, please leave your questions for Q&A Friday. I posted that 12th of March, 34 weeks ago. Wow.

How many times have I posted that this year? 12345678. 89 quite a few posted quite a few. And also what I did is every now and then I will do a little survey, just a little survey.

And I posted it on again, Jason Newlands Bowling Group. And the question was, where do you listen to me from? So I give a list of things like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Audible, Google Podcasts, podcast addict, overcast, Pocket Casts, Castbox, TuneIn Radio, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Podbean, Goodpods and jasonnewland.com. I perhaps should have added Spreaker but I think many people listen to Spreaker via my website. Because that's yeah.

So so far, it's only been up. Oops, it's only been up here. A couple of hours, three hours.

33% are saying they listen on Apple Podcasts. 16% Spotify, 33% YouTube, 1% Amazon Music slash Audible, 1% Google Podcasts. And 16% my website, jasonnewland.com. Okay, so that'd be interesting.

I'll leave that running. So I'd be I'd be interested just to see kind of where people are listening from, not where not where listening from, but where they're listening at, you know, as in the app or the host or part, you know. Yeah, I think I've explained it.

I don't know how else to explain it other than to just say the same thing again. Again. So yeah, right, I should get on with today's Trivia Tuesday.

And what I've done is I've chosen a weird subject. I try and choose weird ones. So I've asked ChetGBT to find me unusual British town names.

So that's what it's done. And I'm going to read them out to you. So unusual British town names.

Now, I know I probably say this every week, don't use this information as correct information in the event of an argument, because it might not be true. I've not fact checked it. And I'm not going to fact check it.

Because I can't be bothered. You know, this is not a public statement. This is not a legal document.

This is just something that I've, that's come up. And I'm just having a look if it's got the one that I, it hasn't got the one that I know of, which I'm very, very surprised. Because there's probably one of the best ones in the country.

But it's not got it. So I'll read that one. So I'll give you my one that's not even on the list.

Cockermouth. Cockermouth. That's an actual place.

And I heard it for the very first time when I was doing insurance sales. And so I phoned up and, you know, if you do, if you work in a call centre, you basically, there's a few things that you're going to experience that maybe you've never experienced before. Every single type of voice, every single type of accent, some very difficult to really understand.

And every different kind of speed of talking. And then you've also got, you know, every single different type of car. Everywhere, pretty much in the UK.

So you're going to hear of every single town that there is. Every single and every single name as well. There's some, I think this is the strangest name I ever heard.

And it was death, D E A T H. But D E with apostrophe or something A T H. And I just thought, oh, and I think someone else had the surname Hitler. And I also thought, I can't say that I would keep that name if it came. I mean, the second one, I mean, it's, it's got hasn't got a good reputation, is it that name? I mean, I think even the relatives of that particular person, who became unpopular with that name, with that name back in the 40s.

I'm pretty certain that they changed their surname. Because it wasn't, it wasn't opening the doors that they wanted it to open, I guess. I imagine during the late 30s, it probably opened a lot of doors because he was in charge of everything.

Going to a restaurant, I'm afraid there's no seats, there's no chairs, no seats, no, no tables available. But do you know who I am? I'm sorry, I don't. I'm Steve.

Yeah. So what's that supposed to mean? I'm Steve Hitler. Uh, yes, Steve Hitler.

You heard right. Are you any relation? Yeah, he's my brother. He's your brother? Yeah.

Are you still going to have trouble seating me? It's like, empty the restaurant, everyone out. Like, there you go, Mr. Steve. Boss.

Probably in 1946, didn't have the same kind of nudgey power. Going to a restaurant and like, you got no seats? No. Do you know who I am? No.

Steve. Steve what? Smith. Steve Smith.

Are you supposed to be related to another famous? No, I'm not. Honest. Okay, unusual British towns.

Cockermouth. That's among my favourite ones, just because it's true. And I couldn't just really.

Some of the street names. It's just wow. And so here we are, here's the list that ChatGPT has brought up for me.

Scratchy Bottom. That's just silly, isn't it? And that's in Dorset. Frequently voted British funniest place name.

Never heard of it before. And the next one is in East Yorkshire. A name of Viking origin, meaning Field of Trials.

And it's called Wet Whang. And again, some of this might not be true, but it looks like it might be. Dull in Perthshire, twinned with Boring in Oregon.

And in Norfolk, there's a place called Boring, a town called Boring. I thought that was just Yorkshire, just Norfolk. I think Norfolk.

I don't know. I've been there. I've lived in Suffolk.

I've lived, I never lived in Norfolk, but I've been to Norfolk. And I went to a restaurant there. A retreat centre there called Padmaloka, actually.

And probably the most amount of stars I've ever seen in the sky at night. Because there's no, they didn't have streetlights in Norfolk back then. This is like nearly 20 years ago.

And electricity hadn't reached Norfolk. So it was beautiful, the amount of lights. And in fact, even the planes didn't go over Norfolk because the government thought it might scare them.

I think it's. What's next? No, in Auckland, Shetland, Twat. This is that's Old Norse for small parcel of land.

Really? I feel they're making it up. I mean, how would that be an insult calling someone? You're just a small parcel of land, you are. You're such a small parcel of land.

Or. Yeah, okay. Piddle, Piddler Trend Hyde, Piddle, Piddle Trent Hyde, in Dorset, on the river Piddle.

Is there really a river called Piddle in Dorset? And Trent Hyde means 30 Hydes, a medieval measure of land. So in Kent, Pratt's Bottom. Cool.

Devon. And it's a fishing village called Beer, as in drinky drinky beer. And in Essex, there's a place called Ugly.

But it's spelled A-U-G-L-E-Y. And apparently, the Women's Institute there is generally called the Ugly Women's Institute. But when you think about it, Essex is kind of one of the oldest areas in the country.

The Romans settled in Essex. The capital of the country was in Essex, when the Romans ruled. So, I don't really know where I was going with that.

What was I going with that? I think I was trying to defend Essex, but didn't do a very good job. Just talking about, you know, Romans used to live there. It's not really a defense, is it? There's no defense for calling a place ugly.

It's just like, oh, scratchy bottom in Dorset. Vikings used to live there. It's just irrelevant, isn't it? To the conversation, I mean.

It's relevant to history. And I suppose, really, when you think about it, Twat in Orkney and Shetland. Old Norse, a small parcel of land.

So Norse, that was the Vikings, wasn't it? So, yeah, I guess it is relevant, kind of. So, the next one is North Yorkshire. Blubberhouses.

Blubberhouses. I've got no idea what that's about. Are you ready for this next one? In Worcestershire, or Worcestershire, depending how you pronounce it, is a place named after a local ridge.

And it's called Licky End. I'm getting hot reading this out. And Warwickshire, or Warwickshire, refers to land owned by the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

Bishop's Itchington. It's just got the word itching, isn't it? I suppose. Bishop, I don't know, is that another name for? In Hertfordshire, there's a place called Nasty.

So it's some apparently just means by the ash tree. Not the ash tray, the ash tree. And you got North Yorkshire.

Giggleswick. And it's apparently named after a man called Giggle. Giggleswick.

I like that. It's a nice name, isn't it? Gigglewick. I'm not going to read the next one out because it's from Wales, and I can't read it.

Llanfairnigill. I can't, I don't know how to pronounce it. That's in Anglesey.

Anglesey? Is Anglesey in Wales? It looks like a Welsh name. It begins with two L's. A N F A R P W L L. It's not.

An L doesn't go after a W. A W does not go after a P. A P does not go after an R. Well, fair play. So yeah, it's possible. But generally, generally, an L doesn't go before an L. It just yeah, it's P W L. That's not.

That's not grammatically. It's not. It's just not grammatic, is it? Highlands from Old Norse.

Meaning Broadfield. Brawl. Oh, cool.

17. Okay, this is from County Durham. And it's called Nor, No Place.

No Place. I've lived in a lot of places that should have been called No Place. And also boring.

And scratchy wang. And twat. And prats bottom.

Ugly. There's been a few places that should have been called that. Brawl.

And let's have a look. What else we got? Essex. Fingeringhoe.

Fingeringhoe. Wow. Fingeringhoe.

It's not pronounced like that. It's called fingeringhoe. It's not fingeringhoe.

Although that's how it's spelled. Fingeringhoe. Maybe I got it wrong.

Maybe that is how it's pronounced. I thought it was. And that's that's near where I live.

Fingeringhoe. The spur of land belonging to fingering. But why is not fingeringhoe instead of fingering? Fingering.

East Sussex. Loose bottom. That's just funny.

I don't know why I'm just very childish. That's a loose bottom. I've got a loose bottom.

And yeah, that's, that's unfortunate. Apparently stands for small, a small valley. But a loose bottom is the opposite to a small valley, isn't it? Barton in the Beans in Leicestershire.

Leicestershire. Once famous for growing broad beans. Barton in the Beans.

And you've got Leicestershire. Sheepy Magna. North Yorkshire.

Crackpot. Yeah, I've been a few places that should have been called that. Great Snoring in Norfolk.

And it's got a name called Little Snoring. Wow. If you've ever been to some of these country places, which I have.

I've travelled around a little bit around the country a little bit. And I can understand why they're called snoring. Because some are very sleepy little towns, which is lovely.

If that's what you want, you know. But it can be, you know, very quiet, which I quite like. I'm sure something just got chucked at the window.

That's weird. It might just be the window, like expanding or something. Strange.

And Dullingham, that's in Cambridge. County Durham. Pity Me.

Wow. Pity Me. That's a memorable one, isn't it? And you've got another one in Durham.

Baldersdale. Baldersdale. Who's Dale? I don't know, but you're as bald as he is.

That's rude. Dorset. Right, this is what it says on there.

So I'm not I'm not making it up. Okay. This is in Dorset.

And Old English for farmstead by the stream. Used as a sewer. Shitterton.

It's the real name, Shitterton. And you got next, Tyne and Wear. And it's, yeah, I'm just gonna read it out.

Just says wide open. So I've, I've, yeah. Dead at it.

I used to live in that part of the world. Moving on. West Sussex.

Cocking. Cocking. In Devon, apparently the residents famously protested when Google blurred their sign on Google.

And it's called Crapstone. Wow, being censored by Google. And Aberdeenshire.

Backside. There's a lot of bum stuff in there in these names. I don't feel comfortable talking about stuff like this.

I feel embarrassed, both for myself and for the internet. My ears are flushing with embarrassment. Cheshire.

Bottom flash. Another one. Another bottom thing.

This place is from Staffordshire. Foul end. And the next one is from Wales.

It's called Beggar's Bush. There's so many ways to unpick that one. To untangle it.

The next one is from Aberdeenshire. That's another one from Aberdeen. Aberdeenshire.

Broken wind. Wow. So you might not use this phrase in other countries, but in the UK, it's another word for farting.

Or you broke wind. Worcestershire. Worcestershire weather.

You ready? Bellend. These are real, apparently. Cornwall.

And this is Cornish for hill of swallows. Brown willy. And then you've got another place in Ceredigion in Wales.

Cwmstwyth. I mean, I don't know. They're unpronounceable.

So for me, it's unpronounceable. So I'm not even going to bother. I don't know why.

Ceredigion. Why even add it to the list if it's incomprehensible? I mean, I think that Adam is a funny name because I can't pronounce it. But it's not a funny name for that.

A funny name is... This is strange. This is the shortest street in York. And it's called Whipmawotmagate.

Whipmawotmagate. I had no idea. West Sussex.

Climbing. Climbing. That's a nice sound.

It's not funny, is it? In Castleford. Ticklecock Bridge. Recently renamed after controversy, but locals fought to keep the original.

Ticklecock Bridge. I mean, depends what it's being used for. You know, I mean, if you... I remember in this town I used to live in.

Someone said, oh, I got mugged. A few years ago, I got mugged. Saturday night.

I said, really? Where was it? Oh, Muggersack. Was it Muggersack? Muggers Alley. So you got mugged in Muggers Alley, yeah.

So there's an alley called Muggers Alley. It's not really called that. It's what everyone calls it.

And you went down there at two in the morning. Yeah. But it's called Muggers Alley.

Yeah. If ever there's a place where muggers are going to convene and just catch up with the local gossip, it's going to be there, isn't it? Oh, Ticklecock Bridge. That's my favourite so far.

Barton Turf in Norfolk. Wiltshire. Thingley.

Thingley? Hartfordshire. Cold Christmas. I like that.

Imagine living in a place called Christmas. And literally every day is Christmas, isn't it? They should do that. I don't know why some towns just don't take on a whole persona of its own.

Just like, okay, you know what we're going to do? We're going to be Christmas all year round. Everything's going to be Christmas. And it'll be a tourist attraction for people from all over the world to visit the UK.

And that town or that little village or whatever will make millions of pounds coming in from tourists all year round, in fact, because it'll be a novelty to come to a place that's got fake snow everywhere in the summer. And of course, in the winter, everything's going to look in the right place. But it's my idea.

Will anyone do it? I doubt it. Unless someone always already is doing it. Dorset Knob in Dorset.

It's actually a biscuit and there's a festival named after it apparently. Dorset Knob. In Cornwall, there's a place called Truth Wall.

I don't know if it's near Muggers Alley. I don't know. North Piddle in Worcestershire.

North Piddle. And you got Staffordshire Wetton. Apparently that means wet town.

I mean, there's a lot of places in this country that have a lot of rain. Luckily, in one of the parts of the country which has is one of the least amounts of rain. Middlesex Botany Bay.

That's named after the Australian colony colony. In West Yorkshire, Slack Bottom. Don't we have a loose bottom? Now this is Slack Bottom.

Down in a valley between steep hills. Well, yeah, we know where it is. And Cornwall, Penny Come Quick.

Apparently, it's supposed to mean the head of a creek. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Penny Come Quick. So the people originally discovered that area. Perhaps there was a couple fooling around and someone shouted, Bob, are you there? Yeah, you're Penny there.

Yeah. What do you want to call it? That's your area. What do you want to call it? Penny Come Quick.

Maybe, I don't know. This is a good one. Northumberland Great Toss-On.

A Great Toss-On. Upper Thong, West Yorkshire. Hampshire Sandy Balls.

Lancashire, Blowick. And Herefordshire, Much Markle. Markle, isn't there some famous called Markle? And you've got Dumfries and Galloway.

Ecclefection. You've got West Yorkshire. Great Land.

It means gravelly ground. I've got, okay, so I've got to visit this place. West Sussex.

Titty Hill. Titty Hill. Apparently, it means small rise.

It's a small valley and it means small rise. Titty Hill in Sussex. West Sussex.

I've not heard of any of these. Little Tottenham in Essex. And then you've got Leighton Buzzard.

That's not really a funny, that's just a well known name. So Bedfordshire. I've heard of that.

West Sussex, Burpham. And you've got Buckinghamshire. Great Missenden.

Oxford. Silly Bridge. Silly Bridge, which apparently means willow bridge.

There's another one in Kent called Snodland. I like that, Snodland. Dorset.

Tollapourcorum. Tollapourcorum. Valley of the Peaks, apparently it means in Latin.

And then there's Gloucestershire or Gloucestershire. Old Sodbury. Apparently meaning a charming, oh, it's a charming hilltop village.

And then you've got Somerset. Chew Magna. Dorset.

Beer Hackett. Beer means wooded hillside. Wooded hillside.

I suppose by wooded, they mean like trees. East Sussex. Flinswell.

And in the Lake District, there's a place called Great Cockup. Gloucestershire. Little Rissington.

Devon. Devon. Zilmonitorum.

By the way, that's another term used in this country, or it used to be a cockup. That was a great cockup, like everything went wrong. Like it was a big mess up and a big mess.

It was a big failure. So that's what it's called, a big cockup, a great cockup. Depending on the situation, it's used, of course.

And if there's a couple, someone with their friends talking about last night's date, they might not be talking about things going wrong. They might be talking in a positive way. Little Rissington.

In Gloucestershire. Devon. Zilmonitorum.

Bristol. Cat Brain. Cat Brain.

Apparently meaning winding bridge. Hampshire. Frogmore.

Manchester. Hanging Ditch. It's a medieval drainage system.

Okay. West Yorkshire. Lumbutts.

I don't know why that's funny. Lumbutts. This sounds funny.

Lincolnshire. Spittle in the street. Spittle in the street.

And for pilgrims, that meant hospital on the street. Truth or consequences. Oh, that's really rude.

It just says that truth or consequences, and then none and then just says just checking you're still awake. Chat GPT just played a joke on me. Little snoring, which is in Norfolk next to great snoring.

Wow. Okay, what? I'm just gonna say I just want to just quickly check. Just want to have a quick look through American ones.

There's a place called intercourse in Pennsylvania. There is a place called truth or consequences, but that's in New Mexico, apparently. Satan's kingdom in Vermont.

Really? Tightwad in Missouri. Toad Suck in Arkansas. Booger Hole in West Virginia.

Really? Lick Skillet in Tennessee. Toad Hop in Indiana. Hooker in Oklahoma.

Really? Burnt Corn in Alabama. Boogertown in North Carolina. Monkey's Eyebrows.

Or Monkey's Eyebrow in Kentucky. No, there can't be a place called ZZYZX in California. That can't be true.

Hygiene. True fill. Embarrass.

Nameless. I think it's making it up. Christmas.

Frankenstein. Cucumber, West Virginia. No, really? Bigfoot in Texas.

Bald Head in Maine. Ding Dong. Ding Dong.

Ding Dong in Texas. I can't, it can't be true. It can't be.

Good Grief in Idaho. Eek in Alaska. Rough and Ready, California.

Coward in South Carolina. Bum Pass in Virginia. It can't be.

Cheese Quake in New Jersey. 96 in South Carolina. No, they are Sweet Lips in Tennessee.

Climax in Michigan. Cookie Town in Oklahoma. Is any of this true? Please.

I don't know. This has opened a can of worms. I just thought I could just go through so many, so many weird names.

Anyway, that does bring us to the end. It's quite warm in here with the window closed. It brings us to the end of this recording.

I'll be back again tomorrow with Whisper Wednesday. So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love.

Bye.