There’s always Norman’s Woe, a rock reef off Cape Ann near Gloucester. It was the site of several shipwrecks, including the fictional Hesperus in Longfellow’s poem the Wreck of the Hesperus. It’s very close to Hammond Castle, and clearly visible from there.
“Pleasure” of any type.
I give you “Orphan’s Loss Place” - a street in La Plata, MD
Those are all tangible concepts though, no?
woe
2 of 2
noun
pluralwoes
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: a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief
2
: ruinous trouble : calamity, affliction
economic woes
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I wasn’t responding to that post. Or are you not responding to mine and it’s Discourse that’s telling me you are.
Dogs Nest is a whistlestop hamlet in Ontario Canada. Maybe ten houses some of them derelict.
I mentioned that yesterday.
I guess not, but IMO a purchase, grant, location, or gore are less tangible than a mill, mountain, river. But you are correct that they’re not as abstract as a woe or folly.
The first thing I thought of is a bit of obscure Canadiana. The place exists and was the main set for a TV show called The Beachcombers…”Molly’s Reach” is a real restaurant. (But further reading in comments and as I was checking spelling, apparently a “reach” is a section of river? So maybe this does not count as it is a geographical term and a restaurant…)
There are several features called Mount Hopeless in Australia.
Several years ago I read about a case where geophysics students discovered three new faults. Given the opportunity to name them, they cammed them “My Fault”, “Your fault”, and “____’s Fault”, where the last was the name of the university president.
They should have gone with “Nobody’s Fault”.
Nah, they should have named them “Nobody’s Fault,” “Hell It Could Be My Fault,” and “It’s My Own Damn Fault,” then have a Margarita.
After a hard landing on a flight, the FA comes on with an announcement -
“Ladies and gentlemen, that wasn’t the Pilot’s fault, that wasn’t the Co-Pilot’s fault, that was the asphalt.”
But. they refer to the land , very tangible, obviously not a verb.. use the noun meaning of the word..
Its unlikely someone did leap , it refers to a cliff..
Reid’s Mistake at the entry to Lake Macquarie.. near Swansea hey.
Its referring to Reid discovering the lake by mistaking the channel as the river he wanted to reach, “After the long beach and bluffs stretch, coal in the cliffs and an island and there’s a river., go in to the safe harbour there” .. Well there was not much of a safe harbour but there was a large lake on the other side of the dangerous channel.
Tate’s Hell State Forest
Similarly, there’s Taylors Mistake, a bay near Christchurch in NZ. Opinions differ as to whether it was a ships captain or a land buyer who made the original mistake.