VILLAGES WITH QUEER NAMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1924, Page 3

VILLAGES WITH QUEER NAMES.

Mucking a village in F."i*x which hits been injured by its name* lias many rivals in strange uomenelalnte among English villages, hamlets and parishes, -ays a "filer in the “Daily Mail . After a considerable study ol tin* subject. 1 am inclined to give the prize lor the village, with the most fantastic name to lltiish Uhampliower. in Somer-

Ryme Intrinsiea and Toller I’oreouni. ,n Dorset, run it close. I must adnil, while Slogumbeiv in Somerset, mil Over Wallop and Nether Wallop, n Hampshire, leserve good consolation irize.-. Norfolk gives up St t unipsliaw, Toll Bonks. Trimelt. l.eziaie. Great Snoring, seething. Guist. Stratton, Strawless, luarles. Slow. Bardol| h. Sporle, and like very name for a village in a novel Little llautbois.

Against these Devon can despla.v Zeal Uoiiaehnrum. 1 nwardleigb. Shccpwasli. loleonibe Bogus, l'lilierasweek, I'plnwnaii. Sti-'kle] atb. Woolfardiswortby, [•'eii Utter.v. Connies-, Wear, and I'.ggliuekl and.

Who could choose between the two? \x lor an unpleasant name Mucking x not alone.

Swine, in Yorkshire. Sewers End. in Kssox. .Mnekton, in Lincolnshire. ami Mudl'ord. in Devon are not very hennlilut Aloi'e strange than ugly are Frogpnol. in Cornwall, and o"l|cu. in Gloucester. ,hirc. Koulmiiv. in Cambridgeshire, is misty name, but the inhabitants probably use the other version. Fowlmere. Among the laughable names, I think ■ hat Bai ton-iii-the-Bear.s, in l.eieestei . stands out very prominently. Baldon Toot, in Oxfordshire. and Kingston Bagpuze. in l’eikshiie, are jokes, while I’pton. Siiodsburv. in \\oricstershire. would be a good name tor a village in a humorous story.

Among the grotesque and laiitastie and <|iieer and amusing names of Lugland. however, are names which run like music—Amhre.sden and Stoke t harj.iv, Stiettou Grandisou and AMnte Lillies Aston. Amipney CrueL. ami Martvr Worthy.