For most tourists arriving in London the first time you catch the Piccadilly line on the tube you’ll have a bit of a giggle at the trains going to Cockfosters. For those living in London that doesn’t ever really change, it always brings us a smile when we’re catching the tube. This isn’t the only weirdly named place in the United Kingdom however. There are dozens of odd place names from all over the country and for those of you looking for a chuckle we’ve compiled nice long list of the best ones here, just for you. So embrace your inner child and have a good laugh at some of these:

 

Rude and Funny London Street and Place Names

Back Passage, London

Swallow Passage, London

Cumming Street, London

Cockfosters, London

Dick Turpin Lane, London

Cock Hill, London

Titley Close, London

Cockbush Avenue, London

Cock Pond, London

The Butts and Upper Butts, London

Newington Butts, London

 

Rude and Funny English Village and Place Names in England

Backside Lane, Oxfordshire

Balls Green, Kent, England

Balls Cross, WestSussex

Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK

Beaver Close, Surrey

Beer, Devon, UK

Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime

Bell End near Lickey End

Bitchfield, Lincolnshire

Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK

Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK

Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK

Bushygap, Northumberland, UK

Cock Alley, Calow, UK

Cock Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK

Cock Green, nr Braintree

Cock Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK

Cock Law, Northumberland, UK

Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk

Cockermouth, Cumbria

Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK

Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK

Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK

Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK

Cockplay, Northumberland, UK

Cocks, Cornwall

Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire

Cockshot, Northumberland, UK

Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK

Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK

Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK

Crapstone, Devon

Crotch Crescent, Oxford

Dicks Mount, Suffolk

Fanny Barks, Durham, UK

Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire

Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK

Friars Entry, Oxfordshire

Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside

Gay Street, Sussex. UK

Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK

Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK

Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK

Grope Lane, Shropshire

Happy Bottom, Dorset

Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire

Hooker Road, Norwich

Lickers Lane, Merseyside

Long Lover Lane, Halifax

Menlove Avenue, Liverpool

Minge Lane, Worcestershire

Moisty Lane, Staffordshire

Nether Wallop, Hampshire

Nob End, South Lancashire, UK

Ogle Close, Merseyside

Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire

Piddle River, Dorset, UK

Pork Lane, Essex

Sandy Balls, Hampshire

Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK

Shaggs, Dorset, UK

Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire

Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK

Shitterton, Dorset

Shittington,, Bedfordshire, UK

Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK

Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK

Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.

Staines, Surrey

Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK

The Bush, Buckinghamshire

The Furry, Cornwall

The Knob, Oxfordshire

Thong, Kent

Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire

Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK

Titty Hill, Sussex, UK

Titty Ho, Northamptonshire

Ugley, Essex

Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK

Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK

Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK

Wetwang, East Yorkshire

Wideopen, Newcastle, UK

Willey, Warwickshire

 

Rude and Funny Place Names in Scotland

Assloss, Ayrshire, Scotland

Blackdikes, Angus

Boysack, Angus, Scot.

Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire

Cock of Arran, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK

Dick Court, Lanarkshire

East Breast, Inverclyde

Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty, UK

Fattiehead, Banffshire, Scotland

Inchmore, Aberdeenshire

Tarty, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland, uk

Twatt, Orkney

 

Rude and Funny Welsh Place Names

Cat’s Ash, Monmouthshire, Wales

Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK

Three Cocks, Breconshire, Wales, UK

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