Amusing street names

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Not sure if there are any equivalents in Thailand but I'll kick it off with some names only the Brits could devise ...
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There's a place In Shropshire called Knockin. The local village shop is.... yup, The Knockin Shop.
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I remember regularly passing near 2 villages in Kent called Badgers Mount and Pratts Bottom...
And for a few years I lived not far from Ham and Sandwich, which often appeared on the same signpost (regularly nicked).
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[quote="buksida"]Not sure if there are any equivalents in Thailand but I'll kick it off with some names only the Brits could devise ...

Do you mean phonetically as 'Bang Fa'?
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Not streets but amusing British place names
Shitterton in Dorset
Crapstone in Devon
Sandy Balls, situated in the New Forest
Scratchy Bottom in Dorset
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if your familiar with u.s. slang, in hua hin there's poonsuk road.
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Victoria is the star performer in Australia, with the state featuring such pearlers as Tittybong, Bumbang and Spanker Knob
how many people know about the Philippine town of Anus, or the Indonesian settlement of Semen?
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it had to be somewhere
some where in austria
some where in austria
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Well, not a street name, but....

Muff is a coastal village in County Donegal, Ireland - there is of course the "Muff Diving Club"!!

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Jimbob wrote:it had to be somewhere
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That's not a town name, it's a road sign for 'layby'...
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