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      I think that’s the Tom Scott video where I learned about Penistone

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      I’ve only learned the name “Scunthorpe” recently because I was reading up on a band I really like from there. I remember noting that it was about the ugliest name for a town I could think of that doesn’t actually contain any recognizable words… but I would assume it’s a perfectly lovely place regardless of that

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      “I tried out that shit barber shop, not bad!”

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    The best part about Shitterton is that the name comes from “sewer town.” Not another language, no alternate meaning, it is just as it sounds in modern English.

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      The sign for Shitterton had to be carved out of a big chunk of local stone, because the normal metal ones kept getting nicked. Obviously.

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    Nothing beats, Fucking, Austria:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

    "Fugging (German: [ˈfʊkɪŋ] ⓘ), spelled Fucking until 2021, is an Austrian village (…)

    Augustina Lindlbauer, the manager of an area guesthouse, said that the area had lakes, forests, and vistas worth visiting, but there was an “obsession with Fucking”, and she had to explain to a British tourist “that there were no Fucking postcards”.

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        It was very popular in the mid-2000s but I don’t think I’ve heard anyone use it since then. I’d say somewhere in the middle.

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    Lots of side trips available to places such as Upper and Lower Dicker (East Sussex), Scratchy Bottom (Dorset) and Minge Lane (Worcestershire).

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    If you want a shorter trip you can go from Blue Ball to Paradise. The road goes through Intercourse.

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    I am equally impressed that the journey is over 1k miles, considering the entire island is about 600 miles top to bottom. An extra 400 miles of no straight roads.

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      I heard the phrase, “as the bird flies” recently in reference to the 600 miles type of measurement and thought that was neat

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    They weren’t exactly shy about what places were for in the middle ages. This is where the brothels used to be.

    Also, Shitterton is literally called that because it was downstream from where all the sewage was flowing.

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    I always thought Twatt and Shitterton were so close to each other… Shows what I know

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    Hahaha, such silly names!

    Who would even want to live in a town called Glasgow?

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    Since I’ve seen this route i constantly came