Worst British Place Names To Live: Crapstone, Shitterton, Scratchy Bottom

Shitterton comes on top of list of Britain's worst place names including Pratts Bottom, Crapstone and Slag Lane... but those who live there insist it's still a lovely place to live

The towns and idyllic hamlets of rural Britain have gone head to head in a new survey - to find the UK's most unfortunate place name.

There were many contenders, but the tiny collection of homes known as Shitterton on the edge of the village of Bere Regis , has come out on top.

The tiny settlement between Dorchester and Poole beat the nearby valley of Scratchy Bottom, near Durdle Door in Dorset and Brokenwind in Aberdeenshire in the survey by Research your family tree and family history today | Findmypast.co.uk.

Shitterton comes on top of list of Britain's worst place names including Pratts Bottom, Crapstone and Slag Lane... but those who live there insist it's still a lovely place to live | Mail Online

Lists of Real Places in UK:

Shitterton
Pratts Bottom
Crapstone
Slag Lane
Scratchy Bottom
Brokenwind
Old Sodbury
Back Passage
Ugley
North Piddle
Hooker Road

Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street's function or the economic activity taking place within it. Gropecunt, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230, appears to have been derived as a compound of the words grope and cunt. Streets with that name were often in the busiest parts of medieval towns and cities, and at least one appears to have been an important thoroughfare.
Although the name was once common throughout England, changes in attitude resulted in its replacement by more innocuous versions such as Grape Lane. Gropecunt was last recorded as a street name in 1561.


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