Rude placenames

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.

But it gets a lot worse than that -- a lot worse. So read the rest here, in the NY Times.

For further reading, there also Rude Britain and its sequel, Rude UK. There's also a Rude World volume.

Posted by David on January 26, 2009 10:23 AM