Shitterton is a hamlet that has attracted worldwide attention for its name which dates back at least a thousand years and means farmstead on.

Unusual place names. Accident Maryland Accident is located in Maryland. Alaska may be beautiful but we hear this town is always telling visitors to beat it. Here are some strangely named places and the stories legends and theories about their origins.

It has a population of. Short and medium-length names. Here are some of the worlds most unusual place names.

Rare Place Names Avalon Heart. Also several rivers in Western Europe and when accented properly the rough blocky lava found in the US. Lets look at just a few of our interesting and downright funny place names.

Avalon an island paradise of Celtic myth and Arthurian legend--it was where King Arthur was taken to. Story has it that the name came from a coffee store that a man named LJ Davis opened on this spot in 1870. One of two names for an uninhabited Greek island a bit south of Crete.

Witts End A part of the village of Eversholt Befordshire Witts End is also a leading light among those rare British place names that also moonlight as sayings. The perfect town to escape to when you dont want your mom significant other or boss to know where. Balls Cross Battledykes Bell End Bitchfield Boggy Bottom Butt Hole Road Clitheroe Cockermouth Cockfosters Cocks Crotch Crescent Dicks Mount Ding Dong.

Hot Coffee is not just your morning beverage it is also the name of a place in Covington County in southern Mississippi USA. The sign on the train station platform helps you pronounce this 58-letter-long Welsh town name. Ab Kettleby near Melton Mowbray.