# English Dopers, Give me the names of some towns over there that we can use as a build **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-dopers-give-me-the-names-of-some-towns-over-there-that-we-can-use-as-a-build/218143 "2003-12-10T14:26:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-dopers-give-me-the-names-of-some-towns-over-there-that-we-can-use-as-a-build/218143/41 "2003-12-11T12:59:06Z")
OK! Thanks all, let’s turn off the faucet now, I’m printing this out and will pass it to my friend tonight, in a week or so I will post what they decided to call the building. By the way there is a town in California just north of where I am from called San Louis Obispo AKA S.L.O everyone I know refers to the place as SLOW. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-dopers-give-me-the-names-of-some-towns-over-there-that-we-can-use-as-a-build/218143/42 "2003-12-11T13:26:29Z")
In addition to **brainfizz’s** suggestion, I should add that many villages have double-barrelled names. So add a random word that sounds sort of grunty and anglo-saxon the first one, or a random adjective, onto the first one - thus “Boogerton Twatte”, “Boogerport Stump”, “Higher Boogerford”, “Littler Boogerham”. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-dopers-give-me-the-names-of-some-towns-over-there-that-we-can-use-as-a-build/218143/43 "2003-12-11T14:30:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Small Clanger \* > Yes Twatt is real (two Twatts actually) but they’re in Scotland. [One is in the Shetland Islands](http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=432771&Y=1153659&A=Y&Z=5), the other in the Orkney Islands (although I’m not sure either considers themself to be part of Scotland). > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by AskNott_ > Isn’t the financial district called Houndsditch? [It’s a street in the finacial district](http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=533373&Y=181386&A=Y&Z=1). There are lots of funny names round there – Old Broad Street, Threadneedle Street, St. Mary Axe etc. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Loneraven_ > I can only offer the villages round here - Formby, Blundellsands, Lydiate, Maghull, Heswall. Lydiate is home to [“the oldest pub in Lancashire”](http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/ellerburn/53/). ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-dopers-give-me-the-names-of-some-towns-over-there-that-we-can-use-as-a-build/218143/44 "2003-12-12T10:43:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SJSB \* > \*\ ***Sir Doris** , I’m from Warwick, so I’ll second that recommendation! \*\* Yes, but follow **jjimm** ’s suggestion of adding a supplementary word for more English authenicity: Warwick Chase… no. Warwick End… nope. Ah, what about Warwick Hunt? Say it out loud. Again. Faster. Ahhhhhhhhhh…! ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-dopers-give-me-the-names-of-some-towns-over-there-that-we-can-use-as-a-build/218143/45 "2003-12-12T10:59:33Z")
I can’t see that the charming Cornish village of Indian Queens would cause any problems. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-dopers-give-me-the-names-of-some-towns-over-there-that-we-can-use-as-a-build/218143/46 "2003-12-12T11:11:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Doris \* > \*\*I’d be tempted to name them after less salubrious or very dull parts > > e.g. Sunderland, Tipton, Slough, Croydon …\*\* Reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote: > [@](#): > > What do you mean you’ve met? This is Zaphod Beeblebrox from Betelgeuse Five, you know, not bloody Martin Smith from Croydon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-dopers-give-me-the-names-of-some-towns-over-there-that-we-can-use-as-a-build/218143.md?page=2)