End of the Affair: English Places

If Sarah had been Protestant, she and Bendrix might have met here.

During Saturday's discussion of The End of the Affair, some of the Bookies evinced rather impressive familiarity with London geography.

Let's see if any bells are struck by the list of British place names noted in a New York Times article from January (link below):

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worchestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.

Others evoke images that may conflict with the efforts of residents to appear dignified when, for example, opening bank accounts.

These include Crotch Crescent, Oxford; Titty Ho, Northamptonshire; Slutshole Lane, Norfolk; and Thong, Kent. And, in a country that delights in lavatorial humor, particularly if the word “bottom” is involved, there is Pratts Bottom, in Kent, doubly cursed because “prat” is slang for buffoon.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html?scp=1&sq=crapstone&st=cse