Unpleasant place names in London?

Loampit Vale

Posted about 1 year ago by cfalconer

The name’s prettier than the location CF, more’s the pity. But the residents of leafy suburban paradise Anal Date Rape Drive, SW4 can’t be happy with their council.

Posted about 1 year ago by Mockernee

I know – I’ve gone over it on the train. I think it’s a dread name, sounding like the haunted manor house in a Hammer Horror, the type of place locals warn the strangers about, but they will insist on going there

Posted about 1 year ago by cfalconer

Penge. It has to be. Freirn Barnet always sounds horrendous, and for years i thought it was made up. Dollis Hill also sounds like a made up place, or a euphemism. My, this thread could run and run – i love it.

Posted about 1 year ago by zcrookesy

The ‘Cock Hill’ streetsign beneath the sheep statue thing near Liverpool St station

easily amused

Posted about 1 year ago by snuffles

I’ve never liked the sound of Morden and then I went there and realised it fits the place perfectly!

I also think the name Pinner sounds a bit creepy, too (and not just because that’s where Elton John was born). Probably just me…

Posted about 1 year ago by robram

Morden life is rubbish, as they’re now saying.

Totteridge & Whetstone. Inseperable and both as shit as each other.

Isn’t there a Remnant Place in Holborn? That always sounds depressing. And I’m sure there’s a Badlands area of Streatham, but that sounds quite fun. If it’s true.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

Penge is definitely on the list, but not sure what’s so horrendous about Friern Barnet? Maybe I’m missing something obvious.

Also disagree about Lambs Conduit Street. It makes me think of little fluffy sheep (not their intestines).

Posted about 1 year ago by EmmaG

BNM – what’s wrong with Totteridge and Whetstone??

Harrumphs to self

Can you tell I live in North London?

Posted about 1 year ago by EmmaG

Emma G – Nothing really. Speaking out of my Arsenal. They just sound a bit like the actions of a drunken incontinent.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

Clissold Park

Posted about 1 year ago by iSleepDiagonal

Dammit. 2 hours too late. Still, Cuntflap Hill is not something you want to say to a cab driver at 3 in the morning.

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

Vange near Basildon (but I suppose that’s not really London is it…) With you on Penge, it sounds rubbish. Staines doesn’t inspire me (and if you’ve been there it you’d know why)

I know I know more but I can’t think….hmmmm good question this!!!

Posted about 1 year ago by Flange1971

Colney Hatch, sounds like a chicken’s skin complaint.

Posted about 1 year ago by Mockernee

Colliers Wood sounds a bit pervy, if you add the apostrophe.

Posted about 1 year ago by mollusk

i used to live in mudchute (perry court if you’re interested – you’re not though are you) and whenever i invited my mates over who lived in dirty camden they’d insist on calling it poochute :(

Posted about 1 year ago by logomomo

Anyone who calls themselves Flange shouldn’t really be taking a pop at Penge.

Are there any advantages to living in a place called Downside, I wonder? It’s inside the M25 so it’s London-ish.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

I drove down Shoot Up Hill in Barnet the other day, I think it was whatever the physical version of onomatopoeic is – it looked grim

Posted about 1 year ago by SeeSee

Hounsditch. Pile of wet, rotting canine corpses.

Posted about 1 year ago by drunkenbridesmaid

I don’t know why, but I’ve always found the words “Theydon Bois” to be deeply unsettling.

Posted about 1 year ago by mrfrisky