Batu69 Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Villages and towns with x-rated names famous Wetwang in East Yorkshire, which has a population of 761, has become famous thanks to its comedy name. The late Richard Whiteley of Countdown fame held the title of Mayor of Wetwang from 1998 to 2005 The village of Intercourse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is widely considered to be the heart of the Amish county. It also attracts a decent proportion of visitors thanks to its funny name Penistone is a market town in South Yorkshire, famous for its rugged-faced sheep, known as the Penistone sheep Fingringhoe is a village in Essex, with a quaint centre that has been classified as a conservation area, but it is also a regular feature in coffee books about comedy place names S**tterton is a hamlet in Dorset. Its name is more than 100 years old and means 'farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer' The town of Climax in Georgia was given its name because it sits at the highest point of the railroad between Savannah, Georgia, and the Chattahoochee River Knob Lick is a community is Saint Francois County, Missouri, that was named after the nearby Knob Lick Mountain. In the local area, the word knob means an isolated summit and lick is a natural "salt lick" or salt spring Inhabitants of the village of F**king in Austria actually tried to change their name to Fugging in 2012 because so many of their street signs were being stolen as souvenirs Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky is almost overshadowed by its even ruder neighbour Beaverlick. The name Big Bone comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there The area of Toad Suck in Arkansas got its name from the layabouts who used to waste time by the river. The ladies of the town would say of those getting drunk by the river that they would be 'sucking on a bottle so much he's swollen up like a toad,' and the name stuck The town of Dildo in Newfoundland was named in the early 1700s, but back then it didn't have a naughty meaning. In fact, it was used to explain a word used for any cylindrical object and it was also a type of tree Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballistic Gelatin Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Gee, I wonder what they're selling at the 'Yard Sale' in Dildo? Slightly used cylindrical objects, you reckon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 haa where i live there is a place called climaxhttp://wikimapia.org/5685833/Climax-Saskatchewan-Turner-Montana-border-crossingand in norwayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Gee, I wonder what they're selling at the 'Yard Sale' in Dildo? Slightly used cylindrical objects, you reckon?you mean gently used don't you :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whi5t1eR Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 In the local area, the word knob means an isolated summit... I know the feeling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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