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Old Apr 3rd 2009 | 5:42 pm
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Here's a starter for ten

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Bow+Locks,+Gillender+St,+Tower+Hamlets,+L ondon+E3,+United+Kingdom&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GBfficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=lw
 
Old Apr 3rd 2009 | 5:45 pm
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http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en...-8&sa=N&tab=wl

...has a lower version too
 
Old Apr 3rd 2009 | 5:56 pm
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http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en...-8&sa=N&tab=wl

ok, this isn't working. But there is a place in Germany called w@nk, a place in Austria called fu#king and a many places in the US called G@ylord

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Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en...-8&sa=N&tab=wl

ok, this isn't working. But there is a place in Germany called w@nk, a place in Austria called fu#king and a many places in the US called G@ylord
And fu#king is only half and hour away from Petting (in a car)

Got to love the Grosse Deutsche for their place names.

Although a pair of Twatts in Scotland comes close.
 
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I know there's a place in Oz called Bald Knob
 
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...=15&iwloc=addr
 
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On a trip to Scotland last year to visit my husbands family we took some back roads and happened on a farm called Cumstain Farm. Sadly he would not go back so i could take pictures
 
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There's a place in Ireland called Muff, and I hear it's a good diving spot lol
 
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There's a place in Cornwall, near Helston, called Water-ma-Trout
 
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Originally Posted by suzyambrose
I know there's a place in Oz called Bald Knob
My delightful daughter made me do it. How kind of her eh :curse:
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Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester is a bit of an odd one. Though perhaps not quite so odd as Frog Suck Wyoming
 
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I used to live within half an hours drive of No Place, Quaking houses and Pity Me

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Originally Posted by evertheoptimist
On a trip to Scotland last year to visit my husbands family we took some back roads and happened on a farm called Cumstain Farm. Sadly he would not go back so i could take pictures
I believe Bill Clinton bought the place shortly after leaving the white house
 
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Originally Posted by suzyambrose
I know there's a place in Oz called Bald Knob
Not to mention Iron Knob, in S.Australia
 
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In the Western Isles there is a place called BACK. Not funny until your pissed and the front of the bus is going to BACK.
 


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