Places that live up to their names.
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I was researching the names of towns on the internet and found that they frequently refer to particular people, social and administrative activities, landscape, birds and animals, crops and vegetation, etc.
These names inform us about the history of those places, and how they were perceived. The true meanings have an important role in history but my simple brain cannot assimilate this information so you need to help me dumb it down a bit.
For example
There's probably a man called Chester in Manchester, so that works
I have been to the loo in Looe, job done.
I can confirm that Brown Willy in Cornwall does live up to it's name but i don't want to talk about that.
I am visiting Titty Ho next week hoping that this places lives up to it's name.
Any more?
These names inform us about the history of those places, and how they were perceived. The true meanings have an important role in history but my simple brain cannot assimilate this information so you need to help me dumb it down a bit.
For example
There's probably a man called Chester in Manchester, so that works
I have been to the loo in Looe, job done.
I can confirm that Brown Willy in Cornwall does live up to it's name but i don't want to talk about that.
I am visiting Titty Ho next week hoping that this places lives up to it's name.
Any more?
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https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Bird+in+Hand,+PA,+United+States&daddr=Intercourse,+PA,+United+States&hl=en&ll=40.039049,-76.1483&spn=0.044093,0.096388&sll=40.03871,-76.182177&sspn=0.011023,0.024097&geocode=FTbxYgIdX411-ymv3x_v_DvGiTFE0KAJxoC-Ww%3BFevvYgIdELF2-ylnlXuUyjjGiTFs3nTVfH4VqQ&oq=intercou&mra=ls&t=m&z=14
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****ing,_Austria
Wankheim (Germany).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusterdingen
Hell (USA).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan
Dunno.
I also knew a girl called Dee, who came from Dundee. She had somewhat of a loose reputation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitterton
Carefree, Arizona (seemed fairly laid back when I drove though it)
The Goodnight-Loving Trail is disappointing, just named after two people with those surnames
Only in Nevada could there be a town called Jackpot
Purgatory, Colorado is very definitely an inaccurate name, it's a beautiful place
Does anyone fancy a bit of counting?
Sevenoaks, Kent
Twentynine Palms, California
Thousand Oaks, California
Ninety Six Corners, New York State
Four Corners is accurate (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona)
There's a name to conjure with!!
That's been twinned with Dull in Scotland
remember this song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zi4bn-1NME
Probably named in honour to Shima Sakon who retreated and later died during the Battle of Sekigahara.
Port Sunlight is really nice, though I guess not wildly sunny.
When I first moved to London I took the tube all the way to Burnt Oak to see what I assumed was some kind of druid symbolic site, only to find myself in the dullest possible part of Hendon.
Stratford is a huge disappointment to the many fictional Americans who travel through East London to look at Shakespeare's birthplace.