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spuddevans:
Just outside our town there is a area called "Purgatory", also on the other side of town is a little village called "Bleary"

But near where my wife is from in Lancashire there is a place whose name really cracks me up, Ramsbottom, and yes, there is an Upper Ramsbottom, I always imagine people saying in response to the question "where do you come from?" "I come from Upper Ramsbottom" (up-a-rams-bottom)

Funny things place names...

Tim

DMIOM:
I can remember being tickled when, on a trip from university to the Jodrell Bank radio observatory, the coach driver pointed out a road-side footpath entrance with a stile labelled "Peover" for the nearby villages.

S. Heslop:

--- Quote from: spuddevans on November 27, 2013, 07:49:59 AM ---Just outside our town there is a area called "Purgatory", also on the other side of town is a little village called "Bleary"

But near where my wife is from in Lancashire there is a place whose name really cracks me up, Ramsbottom, and yes, there is an Upper Ramsbottom, I always imagine people saying in response to the question "where do you come from?" "I come from Upper Ramsbottom" (up-a-rams-bottom)

Funny things place names...

Tim

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Back when we lived in Cockermouth in Cumbria we used to know a Ramsbottom family. The dad of the family was called Richard. So we used to know a Dick Ramsbottom from Cockermouth in Cumbria.

Fergus OMore:
So you( Simon)  moved from the Derwent to-- the Derwent!  :scratch:

Cheers

Norman

dsquire:

--- Quote from: Fergus OMore on November 27, 2013, 11:42:47 AM ---So you( Simon)  moved from the Derwent to-- the Derwent!  :scratch:

Cheers

Norman

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Norman

 :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

Cheers  :beer:

Don

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