Trivia : Cities/Towns/Villages with unfortunate nicknames

[hst43102]

Off the back of the excellent "Bus firms with unfortunate nicknames" thread, what about places in the UK? I'm sure there are plenty...

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Weston-super-Nightmare
The two towns on the East coast, south of the Humber estuary- which if Spoonerised become: Crimsby and Gleethorpes

 

[C J Snarzell]

A lot of people in Manchester refer to Stalybridge as 'Staly-Vegas'. I suspect it has something to do with the fact it is a lively place in the dead of night.

CJ

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

First one that comes to mind is Aldershot, affectionately referred to by many as "Aldersh*t"...

 

[RightAwayGuy]

Longsight more affectionately know as Longsh*te...

 

[61653 HTAFC]

A lot of people in Manchester refer to Stalybridge as 'Staly-Vegas'. I suspect it has something to do with the fact it is a lively place in the dead of night.

CJ

There are similar West Yorkshire examples, all in the Wakefield Council area:
Pontefract - Ponte Carlo
Castleford - Cas-Vegas
Normanton - Normanhattan
Wakefield - Wacopulco

Presumably the residents of Knottingley and Featherstone feel a bit left out!

 

[SteveM70]

Nuneaton - Treacle Town

 

[Galvanize]

Margate. A SouthEastern Guard comically announced it as “Margate on Benefits” several years ago!

Chatham-Chavham, it’s where the phrase originated from!

 

[AM9]

Borehamwood - Bore 'em stiff.
Luton, - the only ex-mill town in the south.
Basildon - Bazvegas
Southampton - Scummer (also a term for a Southampton FC supporter)

 

[SteveM70]

Some people round here refer to people from Burnley as Dingles, after the rough family in Emmerdale I presume

 

[Cowley]

We actually had a similar thread a couple of years ago:

Alternative names for towns

Following on from some of the suggestions in the Great Yarmouth thread, I was in Huddersfield today for the first time (went to see Felix but he/she wasn’t around :( ), I decided it should be called Chuggersfield. There’s half a dozen in every precinct, you have to say “no thanks” ten times...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Scarborough = Scarbados.

No doubt because it's always sunny there! Isn't it?

 

[AM9]

Scarborough = Scarbados.

No doubt because it's always sunny there! Isn't it?

Unless there's a hurricane in progress.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Unless there's a hurricane in progress.

Like most years when Yorkshire CCC have a home Bank Holiday County Cricket game at North Marine Road?!

 

[alex397]

Herne Bay = Hernia Bay.

 

[gg1]

I've heard a few Irish people refer to Limerick as Stab City.

 

[Galvanize]

I've heard a few Irish people refer to Limerick as Stab City.

That rings a bell, I remember going on a Date with an Irish Lass, she said a similar thing about Limerick. Either that and/or it was the Drug Capital of The Republic of Ireland.

 

[hst43102]

There are similar West Yorkshire examples, all in the Wakefield Council area:
Pontefract - Ponte Carlo
Castleford - Cas-Vegas
Normanton - Normanhattan
Wakefield - Wacopulco

Presumably the residents of Knottingley and Featherstone feel a bit left out!

Ponte Carlo - I'm definitely going to be using that one from now on!

 

[S&CLER]

Birkenhead used to be called the one-eyed city by Liverpudlians, not sure if it's still current.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

That rings a bell, I remember going on a Date with an Irish Lass, she said a similar thing about Limerick. Either that and/or it was the Drug Capital of The Republic of Ireland.

There was a young lady from Limerick...
(You can fill in the rest)

 

[Gloster]

I have heard Shepton Mallet referred to as Sh*t and Smell It.

 

[DunsBus]

Whitley Bay - Bitley Whay.

Folkingham - F**kingham. (This is how it's pronounced locally!)

Slightly off-topic, but I remember 20 or so years back when Scunthorpe became "S****horpe”, thanks to over-zealous swear-filters.

 

[Busaholic]

Whitley Bay - Bitley Whay.

Folkingham - F**kingham. (This is how it's pronounced locally!)

Slightly off-topic, but I remember 20 or so years back when Scunthorpe became "S****horpe”, thanks to over-zealous swear-filters.

On the London Bus Forum, the Met Police chief is Dame Cressida Richard. (true)

 

[DunsBus]

On the London Bus Forum, the Met Police chief is Dame Cressida Richard. (true)

You'd have thought that the swear filter would have been set up to differentiate between the use of Dick as a name and as a word.

 

[D6130]

There are at least two 'Monkeytowns' in the North of England. One is Hartlepool, where the inhabitants allegedly tried a pet monkey, which had escaped from a sinking French ship during the Napoleonic Wars, as a foreign spy....and on finding it guilty, subjected the poor animal to a public hanging. The second is Heywood in Greater Manchester (formerly Lancashire). The inhabitants of Bury and Rochdale - the towns on either side - obviously think that their Heywood cousins are intellectually and mentally inferior.

Returning to Co. Durham, the inhabitants of Ferryhill refer to the neighbouring village of West Cornforth as "Doggie"....apparently because of its inhabitants preferred method of lovemaking!

 

[Loppylugs]

On the London Bus Forum, the Met Police chief is Dame Cressida Richard. (true)

One guy on the "Pointless" show referred to her as Caressa Dick!

A mate of mine always referred to St. Albans as stale buns.

 

[D6130]

A mate of mine always referred to St. Albans as stale buns.

A mate of mine whose sense of humour is very dependent on word-play always refers to Milton Keynes - where he worked for a while - as "Built on Beans".

 

[Typhoon]

Ashford (Kent) = Trashford

 

[AM9]

One guy on the "Pointless" show referred to her as Caressa Dick!

A mate of mine always referred to St. Albans as stale buns.

Interesting in that St Albans claims to be the original source of hot cross buns, and a few years ago the Abbey persuaded one of the local bakeries to make some for easter. They sold well but I had a couple and they tasted, well... stale.
A much more common nickname is 'Snorbens' which the Royal Mail will acknowledge. It looks like a spelling of common mispronounciation of the city's name.

A mate of mine whose sense of humour is very dependent on word-play always refers to Milton Keynes - where he worked for a while - as "Built on Beans".

There are quite a few towns that have multiple roundabouts and have been called 'doughnut city', Basingstoke to name one, MK might also qualify.

 

[Calthrop]

On the London Bus Forum, the Met Police chief is Dame Cressida Richard. (true)

You'd have thought that the swear filter would have been set up to differentiate between the use of Dick as a name and as a word.

One guy on the "Pointless" show referred to her as Caressa Dick !

Drifting off-topic; but a forum (now defunct) on which I used to participate -- wide-ranging, but on the basic topic of good etiquette -- was based in the USA: prominently observable thereon, was the extreme puritanism -- indeed prissiness -- which is often to the fore in that country, particularly where anything sexual is concerned. The forum enforced the use of numerous -- sometimes absurd -- euphemisms for assorted words / expressions: "dick" (whether with a small "d", or as a proper name) was taboo: it had to be replaced with "wingadingdingy" (the actor thus appeared as "Wingadingdingy Van Dyke"). The board's "code" for any kind of sexual activity, was "playing Scrabble"; when the subject of the actual board game came up, things could get quite weird.