An Old Geezer's Gazetteer

Every book should contain at least one list

and

every blog should have one too.

So...

...here's a list of East Anglian place-names 

that an ageing old fool

finds amusing or interesting...

Ugley, Cold Christmas, Good Easter,

 Pixie Green, Foxearth, Wormegay, Shelfanger,

 Westley Waterless, Stratton Strawless, Winfarthing,

 Blo' Norton, Pudding Norton, Puddledock,

Saddle Bow, Queen Adelaide, Melton Constable

and,

rather unexpectedly,

California.

Onehouse, Bumbles Green,

Margaret Roding, Kenny Hill,

Apes Hall, Bacon End,

Matching Tye, Matching Green,

Manea, (which is unfortunately pronounced Main-ee rather than Mania)

Hoo, Wix, Eyke, Steeple Bumpstead,

Rishangles, Rattlesden, Woolpit, Sweffling, 

Messing, Shellow Bowells,

and the rather tricky to pronounce

Happisburgh (HAZE'bro), Wymondham (WIND'em), Braughing (Braffing),

 Deopham (DEEP'em), and Belaugh (BEE'lo),

not to mention those sign-writers' nightmares,

Wiggenhall St Mary the Virgin 

and 

Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen

 Nasty, Great and Little Snoring, Six Mile Bottom,

Ramsey Forty Foot, Kettlebaston, Prickwillow,

Wangford, Shipmeadow,  

Yelling, Sloley, Seething, Pidley, Three Holes,

as well as the quite beautiful

Walsham Le Willows, Gamlingay, Shingay-Cum-Wendy, 

Saffron Walden, 

Silverley and Layer de la Haye. 

Given a following wind we may visit some of them one day,

until then,

Take care.