Originally published at: Tour the British landscape with a road trip from Shitterton to Twatt | Boing Boing
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There’s a big gap in the North of England. Why aren’t we visiting Penistone? Cockermouth? Great Cockup?
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And many Bottoms have been missed.
And this:
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'taint all that.
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Many have misjudged the turn when heading for Twatt and end up in Shetland
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This is why you wipe from front to back.
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If farms were allowed then Wide Open Dykes near Carlisle would be in the rudest place names.
Here’s a BBC article proving that it does exist, because any search on that name will be NSFW
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I’ve been listening to the podcast History of the English language (which is great if you’re into that sort of stuff, which I am), and learned about the history of naming streets in London back in the 13th century a couple episodes ago:
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You never go Shitterton to Twatt, only Twatt to Shitterton!
C’mon people. It’s just basic knowledge.
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Um, Scunthorpe?
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Exactly! This tour really should go the other direction to avoid infection. 
Doh, @Bobo got there first.
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The closest Taint I can find is in France.
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You don’t really want to go about it half cocked
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What about Bell End?
I read an account of a 19th C English foxhunt during which Reynard led them twice thru a place named Lady Lewkins’ Buttocks.
A dear friend lives in Long Itchington, which, strangely, almost no one else finds as amusing as she and I.
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I don’t think anyone would actually want to visit Scunthorpe.
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It’s not pronounced in a lewd way, protestations of naive obscenity filters notwithstanding
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Does Twatt have ponies too?
Foxy Lady!.. Da dungdung dang, da dungdung dang…
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