Shitterton named most unfortunate place name in UK

Scotsman ^ | August 15, 2012

[driftless2]

I was in Cornwall last May and there’s a town called Mousehole. Not pronounced that way though...more like Mozzle. And one huge disappointment...not everyone in Cornwall speaks with the stereotypical Cornish accent. In fact, I only heard a few Cornish natives who sounded like Long John Silver. Drat. By the way, Cornish pasties are tremendous, and the best fish and chips in the world is at an inn called The Britannia near St. Austell.

[driftless2]

And there’s one in Austria called “F..king”. No, not farking or funking. The sexual connotation. The town sign is stolen quite regularly.

[mitch5501]

Good grief!

Imagine being the head waiter at the Big Bone Lick Inn

[layman]

I would have expected it to be , first, Brokenwind ... followed closely by Shitterton.

[Moltke]

Fun discovery I just made: If you enter “Stadt Effing” (”Stadt” being Austrian for “town”) in Google Maps it takes you to F-ing, Austria!

Also, there’s a number of Effinghams in the US...

[Dr. Ursus]

I live on Brown st. in......!

[PLMerite]

“There is a village in Yorkshire called Blubberhouses.”

Yes there is. On the A59 about halfway between Skipton and Harrogate.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Of course there were other places in the U.K. that they were too embarrassed to even mention:

Hickey-on-Butox
Exwyfe-off-Cliff
Emerod, Throbs.
Aynall, Bleeching
Peedofyle on Chylde
Direa
Queensroids
Buggerroff
Lynchwogs
Dogshiate

[mikrofon]

Just think how residents of our 7th planet feel....

[ccmay]

There’s a Tickle C—t Creek somewhere back east, I think in Virginia.

[Amberdawn]

Intercourse or Bird In Hand, Pa.

[COBOL2Java]

Athol Massachusetts is tough if you lisp.

Is that where Barney Frank will retire?

[Slings and Arrows]

The residents of this Austrian village feel their pain.

[martin_fierro]

“But it isn’t a midden or shitheap now. It is a perfect rural hamlet with thatched cottages and idyllic Dorset countryside.

It's well-fertilized, this we know.

[muir_redwoods]

I understand he visits often

[RichInOC]

Okay, am I the only one with XTC’s “Mayor of Simpleton” playing in my head?

“...I may be the mayor of Shitterton, but I know one thing and that’s I love you....”

[Ax]

Did you do a tour at MHS? Not many Yanks would know about these spots.

[fredhead]

And there is this town in Michigan that freezes over every year......

[Slings and Arrows]

They called it “Hell” because “Detroit” was already taken.

[irishtenor]

I see your Big Bone Lick and raise you a Humptulips Washington.