ST&G's Map of Britain's Extremely Lewd, Rude, and Weird Place Names Verges on the NSFW

Fanny Barks, Lickers Lane, Cockplay Hill, and Behind Butts—whoever gave Great Britain its more suggestive place names must have had a fertile imagination. The island has long been known for possessing hundreds of villages, peaks, rivers, and lanes with oddball, even obscene names. Now the British company ST&G Marvellous Maps has compiled them all together on a single, expansive wall map.

The map certainly exposes the more raucous side of Britain’s many improbable place names. Some of the names are so rude they’re scarcely even innuendo anymore. I might blush when asking for directions to Derbyshire’s Lady Hole, Hampshire’s Naked Man or—proof that a verb can also be a noun—Gloucestershire’s Hunting Butts. Cumbria’s Cock Hag and Lincolnshire’s Basic Slag Road sounds like egregious early cases of slut-shaming, while only someone who loved our furry friends a little too much could name a place Badger Dingle. Still, because I have a suggestible mind, I’m actually less disconcerted by all these than the euphemistic ick of Kent’s Bishop’s Ooze.

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