Choose a UK place name, imagine it as a first name: what sort of person would have that name?

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GrumpyOldFart74@reddit

Threepwood (village near Hexham in Northumberland) - wannabe pirate.

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Brilliant_Visual9661@reddit

Isn't there a Wodehouse character named Galahad Threepwood?

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GrumpyOldFart74@reddit

I’ll take your word for it (other than that I just googled it and saw you were correct)

I read quite a lot of the Jeeves & Wooster books years ago (primarily because Fry & Laurie were so good) but that’s a new one on me!

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SoggyWotsits@reddit

Hates porcelain, has an on off relationship with a lady called Elaine and frequents the Scumm Bar. I need to play those games for the thousandth time!

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tiptoe_only@reddit

I had a silly little crush on him when I was about 20

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pjwlondon@reddit

Steeple and Helions (Bumpstead) - Enthusiastic Morris dancers and stalwarts of the Campaign for Real Ale

Wendens (Ambo) - too much a stalwart of the Campaign for Real Ale, usually somewhat unsteady on his feet

Crungie (Clach) - seriously academic girl never allowed to forget her school nickname

Lamorna - looks a bit like Jane Russell, but a demon motirbike mechanic

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Smithy2997@reddit

The Smith and Sniff podcast have decided that Wendens Ambo is a guy from South Africa

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pjwlondon@reddit

On second thoughts, he's clearly an Australian paramedic.

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8thTimeLucky@reddit

Me and my dad always used to do something similar. Go to google maps and zoom into random areas in south of England and you’ll find plenty of villages that could be characters names.

Shepton Mallet Grendon Underwood Bulford Camp Brympton d’Evercy Mochard Bishop Ampney Crucis

Are some I just found.

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Rydeeee@reddit

There is an online game of “West Indian cricketer” or “English village”. It’s surprisingly hard.

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Icy_Attention3413@reddit

Just played it: didn’t do too badly, but I think me and my mates are going to have to create a leaderboard. Thank you for the recommendation.

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western52@reddit

Shropshire is just as prolific with the double name places too, particularly north Shropshire.

Yorton Heath Preston Brockhurst Moreton Corbet Weston Lullingfields

My favourite is Preston Gubbals (near Shrewsbury), which I always imagine to be a chap who wears a tweed jacket, has a pencil moustache, and smokes cheroots. He might also be a former brigadier.

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exhausted-pangolin@reddit

Teffont Magna

Melbury Abbas

Hazelbury Bryan

Langford budville

You're right it really is almost every two word place

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Frequent_Army_5786@reddit

Sorry if this is too much. Clitheroe. Good at or*l.

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Herne_KZN@reddit

Well, it could be “Hi”. It’s a bit muffled.

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Frequent_Army_5786@reddit

Nah, I just wasn’t sure if it was one of those trigger words that might get me in trouble. I’m not on Reddit enough to know all the rules 🤷🏼‍♀️

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TangoUnchained87@reddit

Funny story, I live nearby Clitheroe and a few years ago, I was awaiting a bus in Blackburn town centre and there was a Clitheroe bus with a half working display, reading simply, "Clit." 🤣🤣

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TangoUnchained87@reddit

I wonder if the driver found his way to the destination? 🤣🤣🤣

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mmoonbelly@reddit

I wonder if he was playing Bowie on the radio

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Sleepygriz@reddit

I can not believe nobody has mentioned Fingringhoe, yet! But I don't think we need to discuss their activities.

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Sophiiebabes@reddit

Hebden Bridge - a posh, totally up herself woman, who drives a Tesla, is having an affair with her yoga coach, and is (obviously) vegan

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leodoesgaming@reddit

Trent, either an old builder or has a rich daddy

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gponter79@reddit

Brighouse - Top bloke, 1997 he won best Lionel Richie impersonator in Yorkshire.

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Szabo84@reddit

Truro - spoilt girl whose family live way beyond their means

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Gorton and Denton are twin boys. Those scallywags are always causing trouble at school. In year 9, they shave their heads and start pretending those white matchstick sweets are cigarettes like the ones their stepdad smokes.

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G12356789s@reddit

So they are just 2 kids from Gorton and Denton

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Bloverfish@reddit

Prestatyn - A welder

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ClarifyingMe@reddit

Bolton, jock from the States.

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TheButtonz@reddit

In the same vein, look up The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams

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PersonalityExact7891@reddit

poor John Loyde always gets left off

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TheButtonz@reddit

Right you are

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tiptoe_only@reddit

That's my favourite. I've made up a few of my own

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dismaldunc@reddit

I got a photo published in "the meaning of Liff 2"

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western52@reddit

I live on the Isle Of Man, where we have a road up a hill called Lhergy Cripperty, and a residential street called Boilley Spittal.

Lhergy Cripperty sounds like a really debilitating but ancient type of flu, that fits into the old-fashioned, always been around type of illness.

As a name, Lhergy Cripperty in my mind is the 105-year-old shawl wearing Manx woman who still lives in the village, in the house she was born in, who’s mum got on with the clothes washing and mangling five minutes after Lhergy was born, so think on!

Boilley Spittal sounds like a newly-arrived-on-the-pavement gob of spit from the person who’s walking ahead of you, which you can’t avoid looking at as you step over it or around it, and wince in disgust.

As a name, Boilley Spittal is the three year old middle-class offspring of an independent health-food shop owning set of parents, who spend every Saturday watching their child compete at the horseless gymkhana.

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ohsaycanyourock@reddit

Westward Ho! - the most fabulous drag act in Devon

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greenneedleuk@reddit

Mavis Enderby

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greenneedleuk@reddit

Gropecunt, named after the historic name of the road the kid was born 😃Maybe the child born out of wedlock 😉

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Hyp3rion1@reddit

Preston - He’s always so moody and moping around. Or he’s a robot dog from Wallace and gromit

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greenneedleuk@reddit

I know 2 kids called Preston on this council estate. lol

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greenneedleuk@reddit

Godalming

Middle class kid with a triple barrelled surname.

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greenneedleuk@reddit

Lol. I'm not saying it is but this is kinda pick any place and the answer is a council estate kid's first name. lol

I'm from a council estate btw before anyone thinks I'm sneering.

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thanks_akka@reddit

Dungeness strikes me as a very strict leather clad dominatrix.

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Gnomio1@reddit

Dungeness sounds like they’d engage in coprophilia.

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MahatmaAndhi@reddit

I'm not going to look that up.

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Gnomio1@reddit

It’s shit eating. I’ve got you.

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MahatmaAndhi@reddit

🤜🤛

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Busy_Mortgage4556@reddit

Shepton Mallett - An upper class bare knuckle fighter.

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poo_on_my_scarf@reddit

Keith. The least sexy man you can imagine

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GasQuirky3938@reddit

Keith Leigh perhaps?

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DisorderOfLeitbur@reddit

Blunt's Green would be very relaxed.

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

Twatt...a well known politician.

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Mattechooo@reddit

Most of them tbh

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Dolphin_Spotter@reddit

Miserden. Not a happy chappy.

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NeedleworkerBig3980@reddit

Penistone

The Reverend Penistone Moore would like his congregation to know, "It's pronounced Penny-stone , okay‽"

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MrsTheBo@reddit

I feel like Brize Norton would work in the city - full gilet under suit jacket, likes a line or three, stereotype.

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Dramatic-Stretch7087@reddit

Effingham. Posh bloke with wavy blond hair who swears a lot and has a pig phobia

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MrsTheBo@reddit

Could also be Father Jack from Father Ted?

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Dramatic-Stretch7087@reddit

Feck yeah!

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Kumquat-May@reddit

His friends call him Effie

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gherkinassassin@reddit

Piddletrenthide. Someone who constantly has soggy trousers and stands in a puddle of their own making

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theabominablewonder@reddit

Mogador, constantly teased and bullied during his formative years for sounding like he was part of the Harry Potter or Tolkien universe, his damaged self esteem saw him withdraw from society, now ironically only participating in social events that require some form of role play to escape from his mundane life as a librarian. Never role plays as Harry Potter though.

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Fancy_Toe1451@reddit

Nempnett Thrubwell is perfectly respectable, but someone daffy, amateur butterfly expert. That is all I know.

Can we all agree that Cumnock is a bit of a human cumstain though?

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Eyup_Amigo@reddit

Chester - Proper Deano type. Darlington - Proper tart.

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tiptoe_only@reddit

The Indian cricketer Washington Sundar gets called Washington Sunderland in my house. Imagine my delight when I saw the two place names on the same signpost

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flyingmooset@reddit

Wet Wang. Mysterious gentleman from the East.

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Tarrybelle@reddit

Twatt - pretty self explanatory

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Menyana@reddit

Chertsey. Ridiculously posh and entitled, self centered young woman with a tiny dog that she dotes on.

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MyDadsGlassesCase@reddit

Kinghorn

"Kinghorn Rogers" - clearly a porn star

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Hefty_Tip7383@reddit

Canal Street (but spelt the way the street sign spells it)

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G-reeper66@reddit

My name is Nam, Cheltenham

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

Richard Hammond approves

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G-reeper66@reddit

Nice bloke, had a few beers with him once up in the Montpellier area,some really nice bars there. I didn't ask for an autograph despite a few other asking for them, we just talked about cars and tanks (I drove a cvrt when I was in the RAF) I did get him to visit the base I was stationed at though.

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hutchzillious@reddit

Gaydon, the homosexual ex mafia boss

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Nomad2k3@reddit

Cockermouth here.

Ohh Matron!

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

Cockermouth? I hardly know her.

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MahatmaAndhi@reddit

Ashby de la Zouch . Has abundant amounts of money, but has no idea where it comes from. Enjoys rugby and polo.

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terahurts@reddit

Grimsby - OAP. Used to be rich but doesn't have anything to show for it. Smells of fish and weed. Lives in a run-down council house next-door to his sister. Spends most of his time at his local pub (flat roofed) drinking his pension payments and talking about the good old days. Watches GB News. Has a love/hate relationship with his sister and his brother on the other side of the river.

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Hollyhop_Drive@reddit

The three Wallops - Upper, Lower and Middle - would be upper class kids who play tennis.

Slough is the kid who hangs around outside the Private schools and sells drugs to Sloane.

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Extra-Question9273@reddit

Chertsey. Little girl in a frilly dress with petticoats and bows in her hair and on her shoes.

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heyyouupinthesky@reddit

There's a road sign I see regularly in Cambridgeshire for a couple of villages- Dillington & Perry. Dillington Perry is an Eton educated staffer at Mi6 who'd betray Bond out of jealousy of his rugged manliness and success with women.

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AlDu14@reddit

Kinglassie - The leader of a group of mean girls.

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DrewidN@reddit

I've got one where i can imagine -both- names

Nempnett Thrubwell.

A Character from a P.G. Wodehouse novel. Minor town official who thinks he's more important than he actually is. Ridiculously rigid and unyielding over petty rules and bylaws. Small fussy moustache and little round glasses.

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