# This silly/smutty/wink-wink-nudge-nudge thoroughly English map of England has all real names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223 "2015-11-10T21:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/1 "2015-11-10T21:00:27Z")
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/2 "2015-11-10T21:07:54Z")
This is a link to the original creators, to a food-and-drink map: [STG's Slightly Overcooked Map of Tasty British Place Names — Marvellous Maps](http://www.stghq.com/shop/stgs-slightly-overcooked-map-of-tasty-british-place-names) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/3 "2015-11-10T22:23:14Z")
I think this is probably better suited to MPSIMS. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/4 "2015-11-10T22:50:43Z")
Yeah, we have some fabulous silly/rude names out there. They seem to have missed one of my personal favourites off that map though; “Queen Camel”, a small village with a monumentally silly name. I worked at the postal sorting office for a Christmas job last year, and letters to there always cheered me up. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/5 "2015-11-10T22:56:39Z")
The ones near me check out (some of them don’t seem all that silly to me - maybe because I’m just accustomed to them) - what’s funny about Bishopstoke? (Bishop’s Toke? Oh my sides!) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/6 "2015-11-10T23:37:20Z")
If you want rude names, they’re there to find. Many have been renamed. A moderately common town name for a lane is Grope or Grape Lane; the first word was originally rather longer and decidedly NSFW. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/7 "2015-11-10T23:56:33Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I think this is probably better suited to MPSIMS. > > Colibri > General Questions Moderator You know, I thought of that–and thought of you, naturally, and your/my posting history: it has a great deal of MPSIMS, but I actually thought, and forgot to ask in the post itself, if at least some of these names were not official–not found on other maps–but local customary names. Thus more of a GQ. But I did think of it. And you. 🙂 :o ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/8 "2015-11-10T23:58:16Z")
Nm ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/9 "2015-11-11T01:09:49Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > If you want rude names, they’re there to find. Many have been renamed. A moderately common town name for a lane is Grope or Grape Lane; the first word was originally rather longer and decidedly NSFW. 🙂 Holy shit! I just googled it. Unbelievable! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/10 "2015-11-11T10:08:29Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > The ones near me check out (some of them don’t seem all that silly to me - maybe because I’m just accustomed to them) I have the same problem with A Night in Dildo, a song that does the same thing with Newfoundland place names. Gander and Come By Chance, particularly. (I’m also bothered by the fact they insist on pronouncing it New FOUND Land in the chorus, since it’s sung from the POV of a local, but that’s a whole other topic.) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/11 "2015-11-11T11:41:00Z")
\*\*This silly/smutty/wink-wink-nudge-nudge thoroughly English map of England has all real names? [/] There’s a lot of Scotland and Wales in there for a “thoroughly English” map. You perhaps meant a map of Great Britain, or a map of the United Kingdom? ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/12 "2015-11-11T13:20:19Z")
The OP’s “all real names?”: I’m British, and fancy myself as quite well-informed about my country’s geography – in my perception, all the names on the link’s maps would seem to be indeed “the real deal”. Interesting that many of the names featured, indeed have recognisable sexual or quasi-sexual connotations; but a fair number of others don’t specifically have such connotations – they just look / sound as though they _ought_ to be smutty: e.g. Stretton Sugwas, Hecklebirnie. This wink-wink-nudge-nudge act over stuff which is ostensibly innocent but sounds otherwise, is an oddity for which we Brits are quite renowned – some describe us as a bunch of weird reserved and repressed folk, forever busy doing strange stuff within the privacy of our own heads. A place on the Norfolk map which in written form is, overtly sex-suggesting – the village of Stiffkey (actually pronounced “Stewkey”) – has as its greatest claim to fame, the tragi-comic story of the fellow who was its Church of England rector (=minister / pastor) in the earlyish 20th century. This gentleman felt a great calling to help, and spread the gospel to, “fallen women” (to the detriment of his village pastoral duties). He did some perceivedly imprudent things in the course of this activity, was expelled from the clergy, and came to a sad end. The general view taken nowadays is that his intentions were innocent, but he acted naively and unwisely. One feels that the unfortunate name of his rural parish cannot have helped matters for him, in a situation involving sexual scandal. > **[Harold Davidson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Davidson)** > > Harold Francis Davidson (14 July 1875 – 30 July 1937), generally known as the Rector of Stiffkey, was a Church of England priest who in 1932, after a public scandal, was convicted of immorality by a church court and defrocked. Davidson strongly protested his innocence and to raise funds for his reinstatement campaign he exhibited himself in a barrel on the Blackpool seafront. He performed in other sideshows of a similar nature, and died after being attacked by a lion in whose cage he was appe... ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/13 "2015-11-11T16:01:34Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Holy shit! I just googled it. Unbelievable! I searched it too and at first thought _surely_ it had to be one of those names that come from ye olde English or even dating back to Roman or Celtic times that just happens to sound like something else… but nope, it was exactly what it said on the tin all along. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/14 "2015-11-11T16:14:19Z")
I’m thinking this had to be a Monty Python skit. Somebody all straight-laced and proper pronounces these names with absolute efficiency and no humor. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-silly-smutty-wink-wink-nudge-nudge-thoroughly-english-map-of-england-has-all-real-names/737223/15 "2015-11-11T18:53:16Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > I have the same problem with A Night in Dildo, a song that does the same thing with Newfoundland place names. Gander and Come By Chance, particularly. (I’m also bothered by the fact they insist on pronouncing it New FOUND Land in the chorus, since it’s sung from the POV of a local, but that’s a whole other topic.) Here’s a link to the song: [A Night In Dildo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ssrm-aLGNw)