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« on: November 03, 2005, 19:25:10 »
I'd been out this afternoon photographing, over in the old East Riding for a couple of hours.
Off the A614 just to the north-east of Howden, there's a wonderful sign pointing down a little side-lane.
It's nothing much, just a few farms & an old staith on Market Weighton canal.

I think it's just the imagery of it being a time-warp Rip-van-Winkel type of place.

In Hull there's a street called 'Land Of Green Ginger' & you can even buy a  house on it :lol:

Oh!, the photos? Market Weighton & Bishop Burton (I'd live there!)
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2005, 20:20:48 »
I'm already there 3/4 of the day, bed, work and traffic jams :lol:
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2005, 20:29:45 »
http://tinyurl.com/9bb46

inner ting tong & outer ting tong

not so much places as roads acording to the map but they are small hamlets just outside exmouth in devon

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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2005, 22:46:58 »
I live near "NO PLACE" and "PITY ME"
havent got the hang of this web link thing (Blue letters) so cant link to map.   Can some send me a idiot guide
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« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2005, 22:48:39 »
either just double click the link or copy and paste it in to address bar
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2005, 23:41:19 »
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I live near "NO PLACE" and "PITY ME"
havent got the hang of this web link thing (Blue letters) so cant link to map.   Can some send me a idiot guide
Pleeese


Yes, it's on the old route of the Great North Road, which then rejoins the A167 (according to a brilliant book about the GNR in front of me)

See this page for a possible origination of the name

Then, on the subjet of odd names, there's NoMansLand in Devon (near Tiverton)


Garth I've found the thread with the book details, if you're interested?
GNR Guide (4th posting)
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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2005, 23:46:27 »
Whats with the width of this post!!!!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2005, 00:04:00 »
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Whats with the width of this post!!!!!!!


About 15inches!

Blame 'Landy Loony' &his multi-map link, someone will have to teach him all about [url]'s
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« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2005, 00:55:13 »
please dont hit me  :oops:
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« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2005, 02:24:08 »
How about this one,

Went though here when I was doing basic training in the army.

http://tinyurl.com/bawkx

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« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2005, 08:36:36 »
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Whats with the width of this post!!!!!!!


You are very funny jim dont you think your post is to long....
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« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2005, 09:19:15 »
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Can some send me a idiot guide
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PM sent  :wink:
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« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2005, 09:27:36 »
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« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2005, 10:30:31 »
Thanks Dyfed, I ought to have put a link with it to begin with
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« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2005, 10:41:18 »
no worries

i go there quite often

most of the time i dont even know im going there ;)
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« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2005, 11:18:53 »
Near Yelverton in Devon lie the villages of Leg o' Mutton and Crapstone.  I once met a girl from Crapstone, she was quite embarrassed about it.

And a few miles north of California Cross, again in Devon, lies Sign of the Owl.
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« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2005, 11:34:48 »
there is a place in the rhondda valleys called pentre

pentre means village

so there is a village called village!  :roll:
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« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2005, 11:51:46 »
Bill Bryson included a long list of suspect' place-names in his 'Notes From A Small Country' book.
Unfortunately my dad's got my copy at the moment, so I can't regail you with the less salubrious :lol:
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« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2005, 12:00:11 »
I lived in Cockermouth for 11 years.

Yes...you do get sick of the jokes....
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« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2005, 12:37:53 »
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I lived in Cockermouth for 11 years.


It's a lovely little Cumbrian town, nothing wrong with it.
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« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2005, 13:35:25 »
better than being from

Chorlton Cum Hardy

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« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2005, 14:15:22 »
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better than being from

Chorlton Cum Hardy

;)


Hey, I used to live in Chorlton Cum Hardy, not to mention that's where chorlton of chorlton and the wheelies is from.
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« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2005, 15:43:54 »
Not sure about living in these either
LickeyEnd (beware of friendly Labradors :lol: )

A bit smelly here Minginish

As happy as a Dog with 3

She's a big girl
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