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April 26, 2013 update from Steph: Updated this page to add links to as many of the towns and streets as I could find in google maps. I originally added this list to my site on September 26, 2005, but I never verified whether the names were real places or not, until someone asked in comments. As far as I can tell, none of the thousand other sites that have this same list did either. It turned out that most of the names are of streets, rather than towns, so I updated the title of the page. If you have any names to add this list, feel free to contact me.

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1. Jeffries Passage, Surrey
2. Prince Albert Court, Surrey
3. Nork Rise, Surrey, United Kingdom. There is also a Nork Way, Banstead, UK and Nork Park, Banstead, United Kingdom. All in the same little area. Street and park names.
4. Brown Willy, Cornwall – Cornwall’s highest point!
5. Great Tosson, Northumberland
6. Trump Street, London
7. St. Mellons, Cardiff
8. Percy Passage, London – This one was hard to track down – you basically have to use Google Street View because Google Maps doesn’t note this as an actually street. Do look around, because this is a cool little place. It’s a street that goes through buildings and then winds around in alleys. Londonist put together a helpful map of all of London’s Back Passages.
9. Booty Lane, North Yorkshire
10. Nether Wallop, Hampshire
11. Honeypot Lane, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
12. Mudchute, London – this is an London Underground Station
13. Juggs Close, East Sussex
14. Cockermouth Green, Newcastle – I can find a Cockermouth Road, Sunderland, United Kingdom
15. Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire
16. Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk – This is in Long Melford.
17. Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
18. Titlington Mount, Northumberland – The town of Titlington exists in Northumberland.
19. Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
20. Hooker Road, Norwich Also, Hooker Street, Northwich, United Kingdom
21. Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
22. Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
23. Ugley, Essex
24. Pratts Bottom, Greater London
25. Ramsbottom Lane, Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
26. Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
27. Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
28. Upper Dicker, East Sussex
29. Swell, Somerset
30. Bladda Lane, Paisley, United Kingdom
31. Snatchup, Hertfordshire
32. Spital in the Street, Lincolnshire
33. Shingay cum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
34. Pump Alley, Middlesex
35. Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
36. Long Lover Lane, Halifax
37. East Breast, Inverclyde
38. Norfolk Broads, Dicks Mount, United Kingdom
39. Staines, Surrey
40. Crapstone, Devon
41. Three Cocks, Powys
42. Feltwell, Norfolk
43. Pant, Shropshire
44. Balls Cross, West Sussex
45. Ogle Close, Merseyside
46. Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
47. North Piddle, Worcestershire
48. Mincing Lane, London
49. Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
50. Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
51. Winkle Street, Southampton
52. Wham Bottom Lane, Rochdale, United Kingdom
53. Upperthong, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
54. Tosside, Lancashire
55. The Furry, Cornwall
56. Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
57. Lickers Lane, Merseyside
58. Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
59. Boghead, Ayrshire
60. The Bush, Buckinghamshire
61. Hill o’Many Stanes, Scotland – This is an historic site. More than 22 rows of low slabs arranged in a slightly fan-shaped pattern, which may have been a prehistoric astronomical observatory.
62. Grope Lane, Shropshire – there is a Gropers Lane, Ipplepen, United Kingdom
63. Willey, Warwickshire
64. Happy Bottom, Dorset – This one exists, but was hard to find. Google Maps didn’t show it until I found an address with a postal code on this street elsewhere, then searched the address.
65. Feltham Close, Hampshire
66. The Knob, Oxfordshire – not finding this. Knob Hall Lane, Southport, United Kingdom, and other Knobs exist.
67. Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
68. Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
69. Crotch Cresent, Oxfordshire
70. Blairmuckhole & Forestdyke road, Lanarkshire
71. Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
72. Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
73. Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
74. Pork Lane, Essex
75. Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
76. Wetwang, East Yorkshire
77. Scratchy Bottom, Dorset – This exists, all though it’s hard to find on maps. The link is to the wikipedia page. The location is a valley between Durdle Door and Swyre Head in Dorset, England. Also “Durdle Door”? Wow.
78. Swallow Passage, London – like Percy’s passage, Swallow Passage is an alley that passes under buildings, and isn’t marked by name on Google Maps. You have to use street view to find it.
79. Lickey End, Worcestershire
80. Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
81. Spanker Lane, Derbyshire
82. Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
83. Lickfold, West Sussex
84. Dick Court, Lanarkshire
85. Beaver Close, Surrey – there are a number of streets named “Beaver Close” throughout the UK. Must have a lot of beavers nearby.
86. Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
87. Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
88. Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire – Inching in?
89. Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
90. Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire – Saltergate, Hole of Horcum
91. Slag Lane, Merseyside
92. Shitterton, Dorset
93. Back Passage, London – Another one of those London alleyways that doesn’t pop up on google maps. The famous “Ye Old Cheshire Cheese Shop” is located on this passage just off of Fleet Street.
94. Fingringhoe, Essex
95. Muff, Northern Ireland – Northern Ireland isn’t in Britain, obviously.
96. Sandy Balls, Hampshire
97. Twatt, Orkney Unlike many of these, Twatt is actually a town.
98. Bell End, Wollaston – I’m not sure why Bell End is funny. Urban Dictionary: Bell End. Nevermind, I get it.
99. Minge Lane, Worcestershire
100. Cocks, Cornwall – There is a Cock’s Hill, Cornwall, and a Cock’s Lake Lane, Cornwall.

There. Aren’t you happy that I’ve taken a survey of all the Cocks, Tits, Snatches, Mounds, Swells and Scratchy Bottoms in the United Kingdom so you don’t have to? List inspired by and contributed to from Rude Britain.

Other funny or unusual British towns and place names

While I was hunting down the above place names, I discovered others that were funny or interesting.

• Butt Hole Road, Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside (ed note – Other than this reference, I can’t find any evidence this is real. There is a Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, UK. )
• Golden Balls Roundabout, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX44, UK
• Great Snoring, Norfolk
• Little Snoring Road, Kettlestone
• Crackpot, North Yorkshire
• Backside Ln, Oxford
• Tickle Cock Bridge, Marshall Mews, Wakefield, United Kingdom
• Slutshole Lane, United Kingdom
• Hornyold Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, England
• Fine Bush Lane, Ruislip
• Horncastle, Linconshire
• Deeping St James, Lincolnshire
• Waddington, Lincolnshire
• Three Legged Cross, Dorset
• Wool, Dorset
• Puddletown, Dorset
• Affpuddle, Dorset, United Kingdom
• Briantspuddle, Dorset, United Kingdom
• Piddlehinton, Dorset, United Kingdom
• Piddletrenthide, United Kingdom
• Ansty, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
• Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester
• Cockermouth, Cumbria
• Dent, Cumbria
• Hockwold cum Wilton, United Kingdom
• Swyre Head, Dorset