EPIC!! HILARIOUS and Loved all the history behind each one! You really put SO much time into your videos and certainly did on this one! You truly deserve a MILLION Subs and we can't wait until that happens! Cheers for such a great video! Thank you! 🇺🇸♥️🇬🇧
Natasha and Debbie sent me here! Great Rude Tour of Britain video. I live about two miles or so from Pity Me and love the smutty place names. Still have the sense of humour of a 12 year old boy.
Natasha & Debbie sent me here and I discovered I was already subscribed to your channel. I watched and commented on your Tour of the Antonine Walk recently as I live in the area.
Came here from Natasha and Debbie - you missed out the west midlands mate. I live 10 miles away from Lickey End! and the end of another village which has a bell in it... the place is named appropriately! Hope you've recovered by now. looking forward to part 2 - if you dare! ;)
Aw amazing! Thanks so much for that. They contacted me and they're both so lovely!! It was a nice surprise to be featured on their show! Quite a lot of new people watched the video thanks to that 😁
Just saw you on The Natasha and Debbie show!!, My claim to fame is I used to live in Wideopen! you got a new subscriber, thanks for making me laugh till my cheeks hurt!
Nice one Ollie, enjoyed that although I’m now jealous you did all that driving haha 😂 There’s also a Twatt even further north in Shetland! Was hoping to visit it whilst I was up there in the summer but didn’t have time in the end
@@BeeHereNowuk It's good for my head so I sometimes find it difficult to stop haha Shetland is worth a visit but make sure you do it in the summer when it doesn't get dark. I was lucky enough to be there on the longest day.
A really great presentation this is Ollie. Some most unusual village names on this run from the South to the North of Britain. Most enjoyable with some lovely scenery.Many thanks, but I can see why after all that driving, you'd want to get back home to Manchester.
I ve been to Twatt , in Orkney. The reason there are no road signs in Twatt, or at the start of Twatt, is because people kept stealing them. The local council kept having to get them replaced and eventually gave up. As soon as they put a new one up, it was nicked again. A local told me this.
Thanks for doing all the driving, It really was a big effort on your part. Still, it showed us what a lovely and interesting island on which we live. I can remember somewhere in the south, perhaps Lincolnshire? driving past a road called 'Bell End Lane'. (strangely comments have just blanked this name out!). On a Bus once when the next stop announcement was 'Giggly Bottom' Anyhow, thank you once again, Ollie what a great video. J&S
Lovely shot in the intro of what was our village shop/ general store in Wetwang (now a closed pine shop) we bought it in the late eighties when it was an abandoned methodist schoolroom with no roof, for£800! Rebuilt it as a village shop and ran it for a couple of years, then sold it on, it did good business, but was bought and sold in quick succession till the property had become supposedly worth more that the business it actually did! And now once again there is no village store in Wetwang,!or anywhere else for that matter! Really enjoyed the video, you never disappoint Phil, ex Wetwang shopkeeper.!
You notice how Shitterton had it's name on a huge piece of rock? That's because people kept stealing the normal signs. Essex also contains places called: Ugley, Mucking, Messing, and Foulness. Over the Cambridgeshire border, is Six Mile Bottom. East Anglia is flat, simply because it is the result of glacial retreat in the last great Ice Age. We have no strata of rocks here, but clays, gravels, chalk, and flint. Left behind when the glaciers retreated. Anything high in the area (if there ever was), was sanded flat by packed ice, miles thick, dragging stones and grit across the ground.
On the subject of rude street names, the town of Raunds in Northamptonshire has a street called Titty Ho. You'd be forgiven for thinking I'm joking, but I'm not! Oh, and hats off to your dedication to showcasing these Great British place names!
Top work as always Ollie - watch all your videos and I’m useless at commenting…must try harder!! However I’ve just watched this with a smile on my face the whole video and plenty of laughing out loud. Hope you had as much fun making it as I did watching it. I think there might be a series in here you know…🤔
Ha ha, great fun. I can’t believe you missed out Fiddlers Ferry. Where I grew up near Huyton, Liverpool there is a road called Rimmer Avenue. You also missed Ramsbottom. 😁👍
On your way to Twatt, why didn't you pop in to Dyke? It is only about 25 miles from Inverness. And then, on your way back to Manchester you could have diverted off the M6 to take in Cockermouth.
You need to do another trip down the western side of the country. Then you can fit in Minge Lane in Upton-on-Severn. I spent the first year of my life being cared for by my grandparents in Old Heath, Colchester. Visiting them during the school holidays always meant walking to Fingringhoe to see: the whalebone at the pub, the spring which fills the pond (very different in those days) and the churchyard where 'Aunt Zip' was buried. In the same grave as Aunt Zip is her father who died after a fall when working inside Abberton church. So Fingringhoe never seemed anything other than a really nice place to go.
Thanks Ollie...your films are always a great way to spend a happy half hour. When I lived in Launceston, Tasmania, there was a place called ' Deadman's Knob'...I kid you not. It's a lookout above a bend in the river that flowed through a nature reserve at the back of my house. I'm pretty sure this wasn't the Aboriginal name for the place, so maybe the early English settlers carried on with their tradition of giving locations names to remember. Anyway, thanks again for the road trip and the laughs.
There is a mountain in Wales called Lord Hereford's Knob (aka Twmpa). The band Half Man Half Biscuit wrote a song about it. Well worth a listen. th-cam.com/video/xpGedbY9F04/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sSOmQQHaOZy3zMEw
I've flown into Sleap (sleep) airfield in Shropshire and also flown into Little Snoring. There is also a village near Sleap called Knockin where the village shop is called 'The Knockin Shop'. There is also of course a hill in the Black Mountains called (Twmpa) or Lord Hereford's Knob.
Great fun. Talking with your mouth full of banana and crisps - not so fun. And on the topic of place names rather than rude names - there are a few more - which no doubt you will be inundated with people like me writing in. In this lovely country we have: Toronto, Sydney, Palestine, New Zealand, Moscow, Melbourne, Jerusalem, Houston, Hollywood, Holland, The Hague, Gibraltar, Geneva, Florence, Egypt, Dunkirk, Denmark, Dallas, California, California, Canada, Bethlehem, Bermuda, Barcelona, and Babylon - All here in the UK, never need to leave home as the "real ones" are here. Cheers, loved the video, it was great fun. And lastly - your morning look - well you looked a whole lot better than what I have seen mornings produce here. LOL
I was going to ask if it was worth it, but you answered that at the end. Right at the start, I thought it was going to be a complete waste of time and effort, but I watched the whole video, so maybe I was wrong. It was certainly a very long way to go for such thin rewards.
Yep totally agree. But the one good thing was that it was nice to see the whole country in just a few days. Could have been more exciting but hey, you live and learn 😂
That´s so funny! In Germany we have also a lot of towns and villages with ambiguous names. Of course the nowadays meanings are different from the ancient ones 😜
Dick is a common surname in Scotland, so I’d hope the street design is just a coincidence. My mate Richard married a woman with that surname. They’re a pair of Dicks. To be fair though, even the name Manchester is a bit funny, especially when you learn of the origins of the name.
I once took an Ex Girlfriend on a food tour of England. We ate a cornish pastie in cornwall, a bakewell tart in bakewell, a Yorkshire pudding in Yorkshire and a Eccles cake in Eccles. The final stop was Cockermouth, she wasnt impressed.
You missed the gorgeous market hall in Penistone a modern timber roof. When you did West Auckland you could hardly have missed Cockfield or Cockton Hill
Hi Ollie...another great one from leftfield! I live near Penistone at Dunford Bridge at the mouth of the woodhead tunnels. BY the way was Nob End locks too close to the bone?
In Lancashire we are blessed. From Rams Bottom and Lumb, there is Worst Horne. Then from Rib Chest Her there is Little and Great Mitton, and Clit Heroe. Ending at the Worston (in Great Britain). Others: Hor Ton. Brace Well. Meanely. Laycock.
LOL LOL LOL What a great watch Ollie. Question: At 6:24 I'm assuming that "Ballast Quary" was where ballast for the railroads was once quarried? 20:33 The Harry Potter bridge? Don't feel bad, we have family in Fort Worth Texas and when I drive from Redondo Beach I drive 26 hours non-stop, I do a "Gas-Coffee-Go" but the kicker is that I enjoy it.......
Thanks! Yeah good thinking about the name. I'm not sure really. Yes the Harry potter bridge it is! Oh wow, that is a lot of driving!!! I'm glad you enjoy it. 26 hours would kill me I think!
There is a sign to Twatt on Orkney and you can even buy souvenirs of the sign. There is also a Twatt on Shetland. I've been to both and had my photo taken by the signs.
If you don’t live near the sea and your village has a Ship St, the likelihood is that its name was changed by bashful Victorians to conceal the spot where everyone dumped their human waste. I’m looking at you, East Grinstead.
Natasha and Debbie brought me here. Brilliant video mate
EPIC!! HILARIOUS and Loved all the history behind each one! You really put SO much time into your videos and certainly did on this one! You truly deserve a MILLION Subs and we can't wait until that happens! Cheers for such a great video! Thank you! 🇺🇸♥️🇬🇧
found you through The Natasha & Debbie Show love your content
New subscriber here, found you through Natasha and Debbie. If I had a hat I'd take it off to you, fantastic video 👍🏻🙂.
That's so nice, thank you very much!
Natasha and Debbie sent me here! Great Rude Tour of Britain video. I live about two miles or so from Pity Me and love the smutty place names. Still have the sense of humour of a 12 year old boy.
Natasha and Debbie sent me here happy to join your channel
Natasha and Debbie sent me here. Graet job on the video. Thanks for all your effort and humor.
Thanks very much 😊
Natasha & Debbie sent me here and I I now subscribed to your channel
Amazing, thanks very much!
Natasha & Debbie sent me here and I discovered I was already subscribed to your channel. I watched and commented on your Tour of the Antonine Walk recently as I live in the area.
That's amazing, thanks very much! 😁
Here from Natasha and Debbie! I couldn't believe you drove right by Pratts bottom!!
Came here from Natasha and Debbie - you missed out the west midlands mate. I live 10 miles away from Lickey End! and the end of another village which has a bell in it... the place is named appropriately!
Hope you've recovered by now. looking forward to part 2 - if you dare! ;)
Haha yes I'll have to look into it 😁 Thanks very much
Here from Natasha and Debbie too! Thanks for such a great video that made me smile
I've just watched again, absolutely loved it. Btw it was me who suggested this video to Natasha and Debbie, and I am so glad I did.
Aw amazing! Thanks so much for that. They contacted me and they're both so lovely!! It was a nice surprise to be featured on their show! Quite a lot of new people watched the video thanks to that 😁
What a video Oli. You’ve excelled yourself here! Fantastic.
Hilarious and informative! And love your (newish?) van! A great adventure.
Just saw you on The Natasha and Debbie show!!, My claim to fame is I used to live in Wideopen! you got a new subscriber, thanks for making me laugh till my cheeks hurt!
It could be Eye's wide open.
Found your channel through the Natasha & Debbie show.
Amazing, welcome aboard!
Mate, whilst in West Yorkshire you should have headed to Bramley and visited the wonderfully named Cockshott Lane.
I bet nobody has ever flown a drone around a big fanny before 🤣
Lol I hope not
LOL, Really enjoyed your video. @@BeeHereNowuk
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it.
I thought you would have included 'Nob End' near Bolton🙃
Subscribed after Natasha and Debbie show. Fun video.
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing!
Another visitor from Natasha and Debbie, great trip mate 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice one Ollie, enjoyed that although I’m now jealous you did all that driving haha 😂
There’s also a Twatt even further north in Shetland! Was hoping to visit it whilst I was up there in the summer but didn’t have time in the end
The driving was fun until near the end. I must visit Shetland one day 😄
@@BeeHereNowuk It's good for my head so I sometimes find it difficult to stop haha
Shetland is worth a visit but make sure you do it in the summer when it doesn't get dark. I was lucky enough to be there on the longest day.
A really great presentation this is Ollie. Some most unusual village names on this run from the South to the North of Britain. Most enjoyable with some lovely scenery.Many thanks, but I can see why after all that driving, you'd want to get back home to Manchester.
I ve been to Twatt , in Orkney. The reason there are no road signs in Twatt, or at the start of Twatt, is because people kept stealing them. The local council kept having to get them replaced and eventually gave up. As soon as they put a new one up, it was nicked again. A local told me this.
Very fascinating and very funny video. This is epic and so comical.
You should try Knob End or have a drive along Thornydyke Avenue. Both in Bolton!
Excellent! Great fun😊
I always liked saying Crime Lake when I was a kid. Daisy Nook, too, hahaha! Enjoyed this one, Ollie.
i like the picture of you stood next to sign of tw4tt with the arrow pointing at you 😂😂
Thanks for doing all the driving, It really was a big effort on your part. Still, it showed us what a lovely and interesting island on which we live. I can remember somewhere in the south, perhaps Lincolnshire? driving past a road called 'Bell End Lane'. (strangely comments have just blanked this name out!). On a Bus once when the next stop announcement was 'Giggly Bottom' Anyhow, thank you once again, Ollie what a great video. J&S
Thanks for doing this, so we don't have to 😂
Awesome, thanks Ollie!
Thanks 😊
There is a place in Cornwall called Cocks, Seriously!! Couldn't believe it when I saw the sign 🤣
There was a quiz show in the '80's where this bloke had to keep on saying, "I'm from Cockermouth in Cumbria." Even he couldn't keep a straight face!
Lovely shot in the intro of what was our village shop/ general store in Wetwang (now a closed pine shop) we bought it in the late eighties when it was an abandoned methodist schoolroom with no roof, for£800! Rebuilt it as a village shop and ran it for a couple of years, then sold it on, it did good business, but was bought and sold in quick succession till the property had become supposedly worth more that the business it actually did! And now once again there is no village store in Wetwang,!or anywhere else for that matter! Really enjoyed the video, you never disappoint
Phil, ex Wetwang shopkeeper.!
Oh fantastic! Love personal stories like this. Shame about the lack of shops there now buti really liked Wetwang. Thanks for watching 😊
@@BeeHereNowuk i grew up in my mums village store in Langtoft , t’other side of Driffield
You notice how Shitterton had it's name on a huge piece of rock? That's because people kept stealing the normal signs.
Essex also contains places called: Ugley, Mucking, Messing, and Foulness. Over the Cambridgeshire border, is Six Mile Bottom.
East Anglia is flat, simply because it is the result of glacial retreat in the last great Ice Age. We have no strata of rocks here, but clays, gravels, chalk, and flint. Left behind when the glaciers retreated. Anything high in the area (if there ever was), was sanded flat by packed ice, miles thick, dragging stones and grit across the ground.
On the subject of rude street names, the town of Raunds in Northamptonshire has a street called Titty Ho. You'd be forgiven for thinking I'm joking, but I'm not! Oh, and hats off to your dedication to showcasing these Great British place names!
crackin' effort mate! I've even beeb to the TWATT in Shetland. On my most recent trip last year the original sign has inevitably been stolen....
Top work as always Ollie - watch all your videos and I’m useless at commenting…must try harder!!
However I’ve just watched this with a smile on my face the whole video and plenty of laughing out loud.
Hope you had as much fun making it as I did watching it.
I think there might be a series in here you know…🤔
Thanks very much! Yes it was a bit of a laugh and nice to see most of the country in one trip
I don't know about a series though 😬
Ha ha, great fun. I can’t believe you missed out Fiddlers Ferry. Where I grew up near Huyton, Liverpool there is a road called Rimmer Avenue. You also missed Ramsbottom. 😁👍
My great grandad lived in Slutshole lane and my nan was born just round the corner.
My Auntie lives near the River Piddle ..apparently it's nasty when it floods...and I am laughing from the town of Giggleswick..
I thought you had stopped making videos. TH-cam unsubscribed me on several channels. I can catch up now and resubscribe. Thanks for the videos.
You need to go to Bell End, near Rowley Regis. The bus even says "next stop Bell End"!
There's an "Hard end" in West Yorkshire.
Nob End, Greater Manchester is one of my favourites.
On your way to Twatt, why didn't you pop in to Dyke? It is only about 25 miles from Inverness. And then, on your way back to Manchester you could have diverted off the M6 to take in Cockermouth.
You need to do another trip down the western side of the country. Then you can fit in Minge Lane in Upton-on-Severn.
I spent the first year of my life being cared for by my grandparents in Old Heath, Colchester. Visiting them during the school holidays always meant walking to Fingringhoe to see: the whalebone at the pub, the spring which fills the pond (very different in those days) and the churchyard where 'Aunt Zip' was buried. In the same grave as Aunt Zip is her father who died after a fall when working inside Abberton church. So Fingringhoe never seemed anything other than a really nice place to go.
There's a place called California in Norfolk.
There's also Knockin, a village in Shropshire, it has a convenience store known as The Knockin Shop.
There’s also a California in Scotland, near Falkirk. As well as a Moscow, near Kilmarnock.
Thanks Ollie...your films are always a great way to spend a happy half hour. When I lived in Launceston, Tasmania, there was a place called ' Deadman's Knob'...I kid you not. It's a lookout above a bend in the river that flowed through a nature reserve at the back of my house. I'm pretty sure this wasn't the Aboriginal name for the place, so maybe the early English settlers carried on with their tradition of giving locations names to remember. Anyway, thanks again for the road trip and the laughs.
Thanks very much! That is a top drawer place name right there!
There is a mountain in Wales called Lord Hereford's Knob (aka Twmpa). The band Half Man Half Biscuit wrote a song about it. Well worth a listen. th-cam.com/video/xpGedbY9F04/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sSOmQQHaOZy3zMEw
I've flown into Sleap (sleep) airfield in Shropshire and also flown into Little Snoring. There is also a village near Sleap called Knockin where the village shop is called 'The Knockin Shop'. There is also of course a hill in the Black Mountains called (Twmpa) or Lord Hereford's Knob.
to add to your point about the places where men go to solicit, the majority got changed into "Grove Road" or "Grove Lane" or somehting to that effect
so if you live on a Grove Road, congrats mate, you probably live in the old red light district
Great fun.
Talking with your mouth full of banana and crisps - not so fun.
And on the topic of place names rather than rude names - there are a few more - which no doubt you will be inundated with people like me writing in. In this lovely country we have:
Toronto, Sydney, Palestine, New Zealand, Moscow, Melbourne, Jerusalem, Houston, Hollywood, Holland, The Hague, Gibraltar, Geneva, Florence, Egypt, Dunkirk, Denmark, Dallas, California, California, Canada, Bethlehem, Bermuda, Barcelona, and Babylon - All here in the UK, never need to leave home as the "real ones" are here.
Cheers, loved the video, it was great fun. And lastly - your morning look - well you looked a whole lot better than what I have seen mornings produce here. LOL
I used to have to drive through Tittensor in Staffordshire and I couldn’t resist a snigger.
Loved it!
Cos I’m dead big and growed up…
Fnar Fnar!!! 😂😂
I was going to ask if it was worth it, but you answered that at the end. Right at the start, I thought it was going to be a complete waste of time and effort, but I watched the whole video, so maybe I was wrong. It was certainly a very long way to go for such thin rewards.
Yep totally agree. But the one good thing was that it was nice to see the whole country in just a few days. Could have been more exciting but hey, you live and learn 😂
I love your subtitles
You could have visited Jump and Wombwell after Penistone.
Twatt is actually pronounced Twot as in James Watt which would have been a bit of a let down.
That´s so funny! In Germany we have also a lot of towns and villages with ambiguous names. Of course the nowadays meanings are different from the ancient ones 😜
Dick is a common surname in Scotland, so I’d hope the street design is just a coincidence. My mate Richard married a woman with that surname. They’re a pair of Dicks.
To be fair though, even the name Manchester is a bit funny, especially when you learn of the origins of the name.
Ollie, you are a very silly man. I approve. 😆
😁 I am, glad you enjoyed it!
I once took an Ex Girlfriend on a food tour of England. We ate a cornish pastie in cornwall, a bakewell tart in bakewell, a Yorkshire pudding in Yorkshire and a Eccles cake in Eccles. The final stop was Cockermouth, she wasnt impressed.
Hahaha I knew that's where you were going and yet I still laughed out loud 😂😂
BADUMPSH!!!
Thanks for all your efforts. We'll funny. I used to work in lower dicker in e Sussex...and yes there was an upper dicker!
Currently watching this praying that you go to 'Lickey End' and 'Bell End', both near Redditch in the Midlands :)
Ah sadly not. Next time!
You missed the gorgeous market hall in Penistone a modern timber roof. When you did West Auckland you could hardly have missed Cockfield or Cockton Hill
Hi Ollie...another great one from leftfield! I live near Penistone at Dunford Bridge at the mouth of the woodhead tunnels. BY the way was Nob End locks too close to the bone?
Thanks Jimmy. Yeah I've been nob end already and it was too close to home 😄
In Lancashire we are blessed. From Rams Bottom and Lumb, there is Worst Horne. Then from Rib Chest Her there is Little and Great Mitton, and Clit Heroe. Ending at the Worston (in Great Britain).
Others: Hor Ton. Brace Well. Meanely. Laycock.
Clitheroe ? Ya stretching it a bit there, mush.
Had you gone to Kent, you'd have found Badgers Mount and Pratts Bottom.
Very funny😂.Thank you.
Thank you!
LOL LOL LOL What a great watch Ollie. Question: At 6:24 I'm assuming that "Ballast Quary" was where ballast for the railroads was once quarried? 20:33 The Harry Potter bridge? Don't feel bad, we have family in Fort Worth Texas and when I drive from Redondo Beach I drive 26 hours non-stop, I do a "Gas-Coffee-Go" but the kicker is that I enjoy it.......
Thanks! Yeah good thinking about the name. I'm not sure really. Yes the Harry potter bridge it is! Oh wow, that is a lot of driving!!! I'm glad you enjoy it. 26 hours would kill me I think!
How's the Manchester Town Hall Clock Tower coming along???? @@BeeHereNowuk
The sign for Twatt on Orkney was stolen a couple of years ago. FYI there is also a Twatt on Shetland (sign still there). Nice one mate.
I may have to go to Shetland one day
Saw the name place in the bus
There used to be definitely a Twatt sign. People have pictures beside it.
There is a sign to Twatt on Orkney and you can even buy souvenirs of the sign. There is also a Twatt on Shetland. I've been to both and had my photo taken by the signs.
You missed Nob End Bolton and Nickerhole Bridge Radcliffe.
Growing up in South Africa, "bloody" was a swear word, except we used to say "bleedy"...
Yeah it was a swear word in our house when I was a kid
Hilarious.... Loved it 😊
You must know of Peover, Lower Peover, and Over Peover in Knutsford Cheshire? I know it is pronounced "Peever", but my dad always called it Pee-over.🤣
Yes I know it! I call it pee-over too!
How could he miss Bell End and Wyre Piddle both in Worcestershire?
I hope you had fish and chips in Wetwang? Best chippy anywhere 😊
Are you sure that's what that mountain at the start is called? (btw, it's not)
If you don’t live near the sea and your village has a Ship St, the likelihood is that its name was changed by bashful Victorians to conceal the spot where everyone dumped their human waste. I’m looking at you, East Grinstead.
There's this song "a night in Dildo", which is a placename in Newfoundland (I think by the Arrogant Worms?)
There's a New York in Newcastle. Great chanel we'll presented.
Thank you 😊
And another in Ukraine.
..waves from Nob End
There are plenty of places you could have gone to and didn't, like Manchester....
Banana and what? Crisps? Who are you? 😁😁
Hahaha I was desperate
theres a place near me called Gash... (Aberdeenshire)
There's a place on Bodmin Moor called "Brown Willy"
Hahaha
You also missed Scunthorpe ;)
I know people whose postcodes end in FU and BJ. The latter does not live in Cockermouth.
You went to cockermouth !
Dull twinned with boring, tom tit lane Maldon, and nob end Bolton 😂
@17.24, how come you are driving on the wrong side of the road?
that section of his footage is playing backwards
Didn't go to Scunthorpe, then? ;-)
Hahaha I thought about it
Pratts bottom in orpington lol
Haha nice!
Excellent video as always. Very entertaining and informative. A favourite crude place name is near Aberdeen called Gash. Keep up the good work.
When I was in Newfoundland I drove like an hour out of my way so I could get a photo of myself in the village of Dildo. Yes I am that immature lol
Oh wow! Worth it though I bet
There is a Petts bottom in Kent
Do you mean Prats bottom near Orpington ?
@@simonfunwithtrains1572 Pett bottom near Canterbury
Missed Sexhow just off A172 ear Stokesley
to be a massive pedant Fan Y Big would actually be pronounced something like van uh big
Yes true. Pedant away. 😊
Hardon Grove in Manchester
Haha I actually know someone who lives on there 🤣