Reply to: Evocative House names

[expat]

Intercourse, Pennsylvania was originally called Cross Keys. The town changed its name to attract tourists.

It worked.

[James Tiberius Kirk]

Handbag?

A handbag?

Cowboy boots, please.

True - more than one way to skin a reptile

[James Tiberius Kirk]

Murderer!

War Criminal!

Handbag material

[DaveB]

Lizard, New Mexico.

[darmstadt]

What about Vixhausen , the name of a train station between Frankfurt and DA ?

Wixhausen is not just a train station (actually there is not even really a train station there anymore, just an S-Bahn stop) but a small village of approximately 6,000 inhabitents.

www.wixhausen.de

[James Tiberius Kirk]

Lizzard Falls: Montana

Kill Lizzard: Red Continent, Outer Tharg

[Churchill]

Now yer talkin'...

Lizard Lick, North Carolina

Yeuch!

[EternalOptimist]

Was in Oz recently and drove through a town called Iron Knob in SA near Augusta

[expat]

What about Vixhausen , the name of a train station between Frankfurt and DA ?

In Algeria there is a town called Tit.

Actually there are 2 of them.

[hyperD]

Middlesex (UK & US) *
Minge Lane (Upton-On-Severn, Worcs, UK) *
Monkey's Eyebrow (Kentucky) *
Moo Cow Road (a street name near Bluewell, West Virginia, US) *
Moosejaw (Saskatchewan, Canada) *
Morehead City (NC, USA) *
Mount Buggery (Victoria, Australia) *
Mount Mee (Qld., Australia)
Mount Ringwood (NT, Australia, SE of Darwin)*
Mount Titlis (Switzerland) *
Mousehole (Cornwall, UK) *
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Famous signpost in Kent, UK
Nether Wallop (Hampshire UK) *
Newbiggin (Northumberland UK) *
No Place (Co Durham UK) *
Nob End (South Lancashire, UK) *
Nobber (County Meath, Ireland)
Normal (West Virginia, US) *
Northeast (Pennsylvania, USA) *
North Piddle (Hereford & Worcester, UK) *
Nothing (Arizona, US) *
Noxapater (Mississippi, US) *
Nut Mountain (Saskatchewan) *
Odd (West Virginia, US) *
Old Wives (Saskatchewan) *
Onacock (Virginia, USA) *
Once Brewed & Twice Brewed, both near Corbridge, UK *
The Lickfold Inn at Lickfold, a hamblet in Sussex, UK
Panic (Pennsylvania, US) *
Paw Paw (Illinois, US) *
Pecker's Point (Newfoundland, Canada)
Peculiar (Missouri, US) *
Pee Pee in Pike County (Ohio) *
Peniscola (Spain) *
Penny (B.C., Canada) *
Pennycomequick (Devon, UK) *
Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, US) * Indian origin "Where the cranberries grow"
Petawawa (Ontario, Canada) *
Petting (Germany) *
Phuket (Thailand) *
Pickle Street (a town in West Virginia, US) *
Piddle - North (Hereford & Worcester, UK) *
Piddle River (Dorset, UK) *
Piddletrentide (Dorset/Hants, England) *
Piddle - Wyre (Hereford & Worcester, UK) *
Piles (Costa Blanca, Spain ) *
Pilot Butte (Saskatchewan) *
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua) *
Pisshill (near Reading, UK) *
Pity Me (Co Durham UK) *
Poor Town (North Carolina, USA) *
Poopout Hill, (near Moonridge, CA) *
Poowong (Victoria, Australia) *
Pound and Beaver (5 miles apart in NE Wisconsin, USA) *
Poverty (Kentucky, USA)
Pratts Bottom (Orpington, Kent, UK) *
Premier (West Virginia, USA) *
Prickwillow (England) *
Pu Ping Palace (Doi Suthep, Thailand) *
Pu-Ping River (Chang Mai, Thailand) *
Pussy Creak (Ireland) *
Pratts Bottom is a Kentish Village in the UK
Ramp (West Virginia, USA) *
Rattlesnake Bend, Florida, US *
River Piddle (Dorset, UK) *
Rough and Ready (Californa, US) *
Rural (Kentucky, USA) *
Sandyballs (New Forest, UK) *
Sandy Bottom Park (Virginia, US) *
Satans Kingdom (Vermont, US) *
Seaman (Ohio, USA) *
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Harbour (Nova Scotia) *
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Shag Point (South of Moeraki, New Zealand) *
tulipagoo Lake (Quebec, Canada) *
tulipbritches Creek (California, US) *
tuliplingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
tuliptington, (Bedfordshire, UK) *
Show Low (Arizona, US) *
Six Mile Bottom (Cambridge, UK)
Slackbottom (Yorkshire, UK)
Sleepy Eye (Minnesota, US) *
Slicklizzard (Carbon Hill, Alabama, US) *
Slickpoo (Idaho, US) *
Slut (Vasterbotten, Sweden) *
Smiley (Saskatchewan) *
Smelley (Alabama, US) *
Smutts (Saskatchewan) *
Spread Eagle (Newfoundland, Canada) *
Sod (West Virginia, US) *
Soddy-Daisy (Tennessee, US) *
Staines (UK) *
Stinking Bay (Arkansas, US) *
Strange Creek (West Virginia, US) *
Sucker River (Saskatchewan) *
Sugar Tit (Kentucky, USA) *
Sugar Tit (South Carolina, USA) *
Superior (West Virginia, USA) *
Surprise (Arizona, US) *
Sweet Lips (TN, USA) *
Twatt is in village in Orkney, Scotland, UK
A twatt is Norse, meaning for a small parcel of land
Taketulipa Street (Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan) *
Tampon (Reunion Island, France) *
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateturipukakapikimau ngahoro-Nukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu (New Zealand) translates as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played his flute to his loved one". This is the place name recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as The World's Longest Place Name.
The Bastard (a mountain in Scotland, uk) *
The Blue Ball (Tullamore, Ireland) *
The Wee House, Piddletrentide (Dorset/Hants, England) *
Thong (hamlet in Kent, UK) *
Three Cocks (Wales, UK) *
Tillicum Beach (Nr. Camrose, Alberta, US) *
Titless (Switzerland) *
Titley (Herefordshire, UK) *
Titting (Germany) *
Tittybong (Australia)
Titty Ho (England)
Titz (Germany) *
Tokers Green (Berkshire, UK) *
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Tosu (pronounced Toss; Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) *
Tosa (Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan) *
Triangle (New York, USA) *
Trotters Bottom (Potters Bar, Herts, UK) *
Truth or Consequences (New Mexico, US) *
Tuba City (Arizona, US) *
Turdo (Romania)
Turkey City (Pennsylvania, US) *
Turnip Hole (Pennsylvania) *
Twatt (Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK)
Twatt (Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK)* the most northernly Twatt in the U.K.
Two Guns (Arizona, US) *
Ugly (uk) *
Unalaska (Alaska, US) *
Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker (East Sussex, U.K.) *
Uretiti (pronounced 'Your a titty', New Zealand, North of Auckland) *
Virginville (Pennsylvania, US) *
Vulcan (Alberta Canada) *
Wanker's Corner a village in Oregon, USA
Wacker (Illinois, US) *
Waipu (pronouced 'Why poo', New Zealand) *
Walley (Alabama, US) *
Wank (Germany)
Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Wankener (India)
Wanker's Corner (Oregon, USA) *
Wankie (Zimbabwe) now renamed Hwange *
Wanks River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
War (West Virginia, USA) *
Watanobbi (NSW, Australia) *
Wedgetail Inn (Cocklebiddy, WA , Australia) *
Weed (California, USA) *
Weed Patch (California, USA) *
Welch (Oklahoma, USA) *
Wet Beaver Creek (Coconino National Park, Arizona, USA)
Wetwang (East Yorkshire, UK) *
Whakaho ( WH is pronounced 'F' in - New Zealand) *
What Cheer (Iowa, US. people cheer to leave the state, says the sender!!) *
Whiskey Dick Mountain (State of Washington, US) *
Whorehouse Meadows (Oregon, US) *
Why (Arizona, US) *
Wideopen (Newcastle UK) *
Willey (Herefordshire, UK) *
Withers (Georgia, USA ) *
Woody's Point (Newfoundland, Canada) *
Wookey Hole Caves (Cheddar, Somerset, UK) *
Worms (Germany) *
Worms (Nebraska, USA) *
Wyalkatchem (while-catch-em, Western Austrlia) *
Wyre Piddle (Worcestershire, UK) *
Yorkey's Knob (Queensland, Australia) *
You Bet (Nevada County, California, US) *
Zip Down (Pennsylvania, USA) *
Zzyzx (CA, USA) *

[hyperD]

Agay (France) *
Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Assawoman (VA, USA) *
Arsoli, a town in Lazio, Italy
Badgers Mount (Kent, UK) *
Bald Knob (Arkansas, US) *
Bald Knob in NSW, Australia *
Ballplay (Tennessee, US) *
Balls Falls (Twentymile Creek, Ontario, Canada) *
Balls Mills (Pennsylvania, US) *
Ballsbridge (Dublin, Ireland) *
Ballville (Ohio, USA) *
Bare (Morecambe, Lake District, UK) *
Bastard (Norway)
Batman (S.E. Turkey) *
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver (Pennsylvania, US) *
Beaver (West Virginia, USA) *
Beaver Creek (Minnesota) *
Beaver Crossing (Nebraska) *
Beaver Falls (Pennsylvania) *
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Bell End near Lickey End (Wales, UK) *
Benewah (Idaho, US) *
Bender's Landing (Texas, US) *
Binges (Cote-D'Or, Bourgogne, France) *
Bird-in-Hand (Pennsylvania, USA) *
Big Beaver (Saskatchewan) *
Big Bogue Homo Creek. (Mississippi, US) *
Big Bone Lick (Kentucky, US) *
Big Knob (Kentucky, USA) *
Big Ugly (West Virginia, US) *
Bim (West Virginia, US)*
Bird-In-The-Hand, near Blue Ball & Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA) *
Bitter End (Tennessee, US) *
Black Charlie's Opening (Australia) *
Bloody Dick (Montana, USA) *
Blue Ball (Pennsylvania, USA) * You can't have Blue Balls, PA without Virginville, PA, of course you soon get to Intercourse, High Point, and Climax, PA, down the road soon after those towns ~ Thanks Sam
Brest (France) *
Bobbin Head (Australia) *
Boggy Bottom (Abbots Langley, Herts, UK) *
Bone's Knob (Queensland, Australia) *
Boneyard (Arizona, US) *
Bootlegger Crossing (Arizona, US) *
Booze Moor (Nth Moor, UK) *
Boring (Oregan, US.. it's near Clackamas) *
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Bumble Bee (Arizona, US) *
Buck Snort (TN. USA) *
Bud (West Virginia, US) *
Buger (Majorca, Spain)*
Bullock (GA, USA) *
Bumpass, (VA. USA) *
Bugtussle (Tennessee, US) *
Bumpass Hell (Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA, USA) *
Burnt Cane Crossing (Arkansas, US) *
Butt of Lewis (Hebrides, Scotland, UK) *
Butte (Idaho, US) *
Buttzville (PA,USA) *
Butt Of Lewis, at the northern point of the Isle of Lewis,
Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Camp Dix (Kentucky, US) *
Carp (Ontario, Canada) *
Cape Cockburn (NT, Australia, near Croker Island)*
Carefree (Arizona, US) *
Chorlton Cum Hardy ( Lancs, UK) *
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Climax (NC, USA) *
Climax (Pennsylvania, USA) *
Climax (Saskatchewan) *
Climax Springs (Missouri, USA)
Clint's Well (Arizona, US) *
Clones (Co.Monaghan Ireland) *
Cockburn (Australia) *
Cocked Hat (Delaware, US) *
Cockermouth (West Lake District, Cumbria. UK)
Cockermouth (Cornwall, UK)
Cockland (Ohio, USA) *
Cocksgag (Ohio, USA) *
Cocktown (Wexford, Ireland) *
Cockup (Lake District, Cumbria. UK)
Come by Chance (Newfoundland) *
Conception Junction (Missouri, USA) *
Conception Bay (Newfoundland) *
Condom (Sth. West France) *
Cooter (Missouri, USA) *
Coxsackie (New York, US) *
Crab Orchard (Tennessee, US)*
Crappo (Maryland, USA) *
Crapstone (Devon, UK) *
Crotch Lake (Ontario, Canada) *
Crown King (Arizona, US) *
Cucumber (West Virginia) *
Cumming (GA. USA) *
Cunt (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Cut & Shoot (Texas,US) *
Condon, a pretty little town in south west France
Dandy Cock Inn (Disley, UK) *
Death Valley (CA ,USA) *
Defiance (Ohio) *
Devil's Dyke (West Sussex, UK) *
Diktulip (India)
Dildo (Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
Ding Dong (Texas, USA) *
Dirty Devil River (sth. Utah, feeds into the Colorado River, US)*
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
Dorking (Surrey, UK) *
Droop (West Virginia, US) *
Due West (South Carolina, USA) *
Dull (Perthshire, Scotland) *
Dunnydoo (NSW, Australia)
Dyckesville (Wisconsin, USA) *
Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
Eggs and Bacon Bay (Sth. of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) *
Eighty-Four (Pennsylvania, USA) *
Elephant Butte (New Mexico, USA) *
Erect (NC, USA) *
Eyebrow (Saskatchewan) *
Fan-Y-Big (Brecon Beacons, Wales, UK) *
Findlater (Saskatchewan) *
Fingringhoe (Essex, UK) *
Fleatown (OH, USA) *
Flippin (Arkansas, US) *
Floss (Arizona, US) *
Fockbury in the Parish of Catshill (Worcestershire, UK) *
Forget (Saskatchewan) *
French Lick (Orange County, Indiana) *
Frog Suck (Wyoming,) *
Fryup (North Yorkshire, UK) *
Fucking, (Austria) *
Fucu (Mozambique) *
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Fukumama (Fukuoka, Japan) *
Golden Balls Roundabout, at a little hamblet, Oxfordshire, UK
Gay (West Virginia. US) *
Gay Head (Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) *
Gaysport (Ohio, USA) *
Ghost town (CA, USA) *
Glasscock (Texas, USA) *
Gobblers Knob (PA, US) *
Goobertown (Arizona, US) *
Golden Balls Roundabout (Oxfordshire, UK) *
Goose Pimple Junction (VA, USA) *
Goosey (Oxfords, UK) *
Greasy Creek (town in Kentucky, USA) *
Great Cockup & Little Cockup (2 hills in The Lake District, UK )
Great Snoring (Norfolk, UK) *
Gum (West Virginia, US) *
Gurney Slade (Avon, UK) *
Hackballscross (Dundalk, Ireland) *
Ham, near Sandwich (Kent, UK) *
Happy Jack (Arizona, US) *
Hardhorn (Lancs, UK) *
Hardscrabble (Delaware, USA) *
Hay Street Hockers (a legalised sex business on Hay St, Kalgoorlie, Australia)
Head Of Grassy (Kentucky) *
Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump (Alberta, Canada) *
Hell (Texas)*
Herpes (village in France) *
Hicksville (New York, USA) *
Hicksville (Ohio, USA) *
High Point, Climax, With Intercourse (3 neighbouring US towns, PA) *
Homerville (Georga, US) *
Hominy Falls (West Virginia, US) *
Hookersville (West Virginia) *
Hope Point (Greenland)
Hopeulikit (Bulloch County, Georgia, USA) *
Hornepayne (Northern Ontario, Canada) *
Horneyman (Kent, UK) *
Hornytown (North Carolina, USA) *
Humptulips, (Washington, USA) *
Humpy Creek (Kachemak Bay, Alaska, US) *
Infinite Loop (Cupertino, CA,USA) *
Innaloo (Western Australia) *
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Iron Knob (Qld., Australia)
Lord Hereford's Knob, nr. Hay-on-Wye, UK
Jabiru (pronouned Jab-a-roo; Northern Territory, Australia) *
Jim Thorpe (formerly Monkchunk, Pennsylvania, USA) *
Johnnycake (West Virginia, USA) *
Kissimmee (Florida, US) *
Knob Lick (Kentucky, USA) *
Knob Lick (Missouri, USA) *
Koolyanobbing (Western Australia) *
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udom Ratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanu Kamprasit (Thailand) *
translates: "The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukam" ~ to us, Bangkok, (banghead after all that!!) NOT in common use anymore, so not recognised as the longest name in Guin.B.R.
Knob Noster (Missouri, USA) *
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (Massachusetts,US)*
translates in local Indian language: Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary
Lake Minnewanka (Canada) *
Lake Poopo (Peru / Bolivia) *
Lake Titicaca (Peru / Bolivia) * (which flows into Lake Poopo)
Lego (West Virginia, USA) *
Lick Creek (town in West Virginia, USA) *
Lickfold (West Sussex, England)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lizard Lick, North Carolina *
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch (Wales, uk) *
Translation: "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave."
Long BentonLong (Newcastle UK) *
Long Dong (Guangxi, China) *
Longpole, West Virginia, USA) *
Looe (Cornwall, US) *
Looneyville (West Virginia, US) *
Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Lord Hereford's Knob (near Hay-on-Wye, UK) *
Lost (uk) *
Love Canal (New York, United States)*
Loveladies (NJ. US) *
Lovejoy (GA. USA) *
Lower Balls Falls (Twentymile Creek, Ontario, Canada) *
Lower Piddle on the Marsh (Gloucestershire, UK) *
Loyalsockville (PA, USA) *
Dildo is a small seaside town in Newfoundland, Canada
Maidenhead (uk) *
Maggie's Nipples (Wyoming, US) *
Many Farms (Arizona, US) *
Marrowbone (Kentucky, USA) *
Meeteesee (Wyoming, US) *
Meetoos (Saskatchewan) *
Meeteetse (Wyoming, US) *
Mianus, (Ct. USA.) *
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)

[AlfredJPruffock]

What about Vixhausen , the name of a train station between Frankfurt and DA ?

[darmstadt]

The Kings Head
The Rose and Crown
The Castle
The Cricketers
The Fox and Hounds
etc.

[scooterscot]

Some more Scottish ones:

Bahookie
Rummlieguts
Lamgabblich
Hamesucken

you've taken that to far

[PRC1964]

Some more Scottish ones:

Bahookie
Rummlieguts
Lamgabblich
Hamesucken