I’d steal these names in a heartbeat for a D&D campaign map, though. And I wouldn’t feel too bad about using them in a novel or story, either. The creativity it spurs in me is rather like using found pieces for art, imagining what sort of place might get named Stoke of Inch, for example. I see what you’re saying, but don’t really feel the same way, I guess.
That being said, none of these match Neil Stephenson’s invention of the “Qwghlm” archipelago in Cryptonomicon, to be fair.
