Gorse Fox (always easily amused) was perusing the onlne papers:

British place names aren’t romantic like those in America. You couldn’t imagine Tony Bennett singing “I left my heart in Nether Wallop”, but can there be anywhere in the world whose names are so endearing?

The article Show me the way to Scratchy Bottom from The Times Online raised a schoolboy chuckle.
The article points out that men are notorious for their reluctance to ask directions:

Here’s a challenge to any woman who has recently moaned about male reluctance to ask for directions. Get into your car, drive into the countryside until you’re well and truly lost, then ask the first stranger you see to tell you the way to Three Cocks. Or Titty Ho. Or Twatt.

The rich tapestry dictionary that is English placenames rarely fails to amuse.

There are so many that you could fill a book with them, which is precisely what has happened. Rude Britain is a compilation of the country’s 100 rudest place names.

[File under: Motoring, Whimsy]