arcana imperii :: the book of j

sorry, where did you say you live?

i would assume that most countries round the world can "boast" about some of their most amusing, interesting and even outright rude place names. for instance there's hell, in norway, which does freeze over, by the way and lost, in scotland. not surprisingly, neither town seems able to keep any signage for very long! and after having a go at the uk's new amusing place names search engine from jump-around.com i'm surprised there's a sign still standing and people manage to find their way round at all! enter a postcode (uk) and the tool finds places nearby bearing the most outrageous names you can imagine! it's brilliant!

i used my old wc2 code (dc is home now) and behold the results:

mincing lane (1.9 miles), cock pond (3.6 miles ), pratt's bottom (15.4 miles), tyttenhanger (16.8 miles ), titsey park (17.5 miles ), minges (23.5 miles ), thong (23.9 miles), claggy cott (24.9 miles ), herbert's hole (26.4 miles ) and nasty (27.2 miles)
hahahaha!

via MeFi.