There are a number of ‘cocks’ in Irish place names: Shercok, a town in Co. Cavan, and Kilcock in Co. Kildare, which is about 40 km of the Dublin suburb, Ballsbridge.

Australians love to take the mickey, and place names are no exception. A glance over a detailed map of the country will raise a chuckle … and a few eyebrows. Let’s take a tour of 10 of the ...

There are a few town and place names that leave even Aussies scratching their heads and asking ‘what were they thinking?’ We’ve gone state by state to find the weirdest named places that you ...

The UK is home to a plethora of place names that are, quite frankly, amusing for one reason or another. Imagine the laughs on a road trip visiting each of these places - though it would certainly ...

on which the man painted two bells labeled with their names and wrote “Ding” and “Dong” under the bells, thus setting the place up to be included on every “weird town names” list until ...

Leicestershire has a rich array of other place names whose pronunciation is just lying in wait to trip them up all over again. We have some truly weird and wonderful village names across the ...

But among the long list of things we have to be thankful for, you can find a number of wacky place names. Like many in England, the county is full of odd-sounding names. But perhaps nowhere has so ...

(WHTM) – Pennsylvania is full of weird town names, but some of the Commonwealth ... both Schuylkill and Lebanon in being a county and a place. The city of Lancaster was founded in 1742 and ...