OT - Quaint Names (town, street, etc.)

[Bond]

In OKC two streets, none such road and first gravel road

[thebigron]

"Six Mile" a town in upper South Carolina and "Poorhouse Road" north of Taylorsville, NC. out in the country

[macona]

Renishaw, who makes touch probes and encoders, address is:

Renishaw plc
New Mills
Wotton-under-Edge
Gloucestershire


What the heck is a Wotton-under-Edge?

[Toolguy]

Fillmore

With all the polygamy going on, there isn't any of that left in Utah.

[Harvey Melvin Richards]

Fillmore, Virgin, Beaver, all Utah.

http://www.cafepress.com/+fillmore_virgin_beaver_in_utah_white_tshirt,175501955

[Scottike]

We have several around this neck of the woods, Happy Valley rd.,
Schmuck rd, and Sunnyside ave.
South of here is the Duckabush (a river), and the towns of Potlatch and Lilliwaup.
Close by is the community of Blynn and the Jimmie Come Lately creek runs through it.

[Weston Bye]

I live in Grand Blanc - pronounced GrandBlank by us locals. Named for the first non-indigenous settler - a big white guy who opened a trading post.

[mklotz]

I used to work in Loughborough for an American company and I haven't met an American who can pronouniate the name correctly - probably why they closed the site

And I haven't met a Brit yet who can spell "pronounce" correctly.

[Toolguy]

Names

And don't forget about Stratford on Avon. Apparently an Avon Lady called upon the Stratford residence and they were mutually attracted to one another.

[Timleech]

http://jezzbean.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/040507_cbrown_mp_comm_nod.jpg

Tim

[paddleman]

I can boast that I live not far from the beach near LA. And if I wanted to boil eggs in Coldwater I'd have to travel about a half hour. I've been in Utopia too, a nowhere place really. All in Ontario. Let you off the hook as LA locally, actually translates as LaFontaine and yeah I know about Coldwater stateside.

[brozier]

In France all roads seem to lead to Centre-Ville wherever that is...

Near my home in the UK we have Newton Burgoland (MacDonalds theme park?), Sheepy Magna which is near Sheepy Parva and of course plain old Sheepy (not a lot to do after dark round here)

My favourite is Barton-in-the-Beans, and there is Norton-Juxta-Twycross and of course Coalville which is where coal was invented!

A little bit further afield we have No-Mans-Heath, it's ladies only there...

I used to work in Loughborough for an American company and I haven't met an American who can pronouniate the name correctly - probably why they closed the site

Cheers
Bryan

[Guido]

Salvage and scrap iron area, three main dirt roads which need addresses only for the UPS delivery/pickup: Gasoline Alley, turns north to Alley Oop which again turns to become Oop's Loop.

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[Bob Fisher]

Michigan's upperm peninsula has an old mining town called "GAY". Home of the Gay Bar and not much else.

[38_Cal]

According to my son, there's an intersection in Santa Margarita, CA of Antonio and Banderas.

David