The Rude Tour of Britain
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2023
- Shitterton, Cockermouth, Fingringhoe, Wetwang, Twatt, Dick Gardens, Fan Y Big... Yes Great Britain (and Orkney) has some of the rudest placenames around. The question is, can you visit them all in one go? Well, no, there's just too many of them! But you can pick out some of the best and turn that into a road trip. Over a limited number of days I decided to give it a go, looking into the meaning of some of these places. Little did I know it would be an odyssey through history, through the meaning of common British swear words, and would lead me into a deep, unhinged existential crisis. On the way, I saw some of the highlights of the country, including a giant chalk penis.
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Natasha and Debbie brought me here. Brilliant video mate
EPIC!! HILARIOUS and Loved all the history behind each one! You really put SO much time into your videos and certainly did on this one! You truly deserve a MILLION Subs and we can't wait until that happens! Cheers for such a great video! Thank you! 🇺🇸♥️🇬🇧
Here from Natasha and Debbie! I couldn't believe you drove right by Pratts bottom!!
Came here from Natasha and Debbie - you missed out the west midlands mate. I live 10 miles away from Lickey End! and the end of another village which has a bell in it... the place is named appropriately!
Hope you've recovered by now. looking forward to part 2 - if you dare! ;)
Haha yes I'll have to look into it 😁 Thanks very much
Here from Natasha and Debbie too! Thanks for such a great video that made me smile
Natasha and Debbie sent me here! Great Rude Tour of Britain video. I live about two miles or so from Pity Me and love the smutty place names. Still have the sense of humour of a 12 year old boy.
Just saw you on The Natasha and Debbie show!!, My claim to fame is I used to live in Wideopen! you got a new subscriber, thanks for making me laugh till my cheeks hurt!
It could be Eye's wide open.
found you through The Natasha & Debbie Show love your content
Natasha and Debbie sent me here. Graet job on the video. Thanks for all your effort and humor.
Thanks very much 😊
Subscribed after Natasha and Debbie show. Fun video.
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing!
Natasha and Debbie sent me here happy to join your channel
Another visitor from Natasha and Debbie, great trip mate 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Natasha & Debbie sent me here and I discovered I was already subscribed to your channel. I watched and commented on your Tour of the Antonine Walk recently as I live in the area.
That's amazing, thanks very much! 😁
Natasha & Debbie sent me here and I I now subscribed to your channel
Amazing, thanks very much!
Hilarious and informative! And love your (newish?) van! A great adventure.
Mate, whilst in West Yorkshire you should have headed to Bramley and visited the wonderfully named Cockshott Lane.
New subscriber here, found you through Natasha and Debbie. If I had a hat I'd take it off to you, fantastic video 👍🏻🙂.
That's so nice, thank you very much!
What a video Oli. You’ve excelled yourself here! Fantastic.
I've just watched again, absolutely loved it. Btw it was me who suggested this video to Natasha and Debbie, and I am so glad I did.
Aw amazing! Thanks so much for that. They contacted me and they're both so lovely!! It was a nice surprise to be featured on their show! Quite a lot of new people watched the video thanks to that 😁
I bet nobody has ever flown a drone around a big fanny before 🤣
Lol I hope not
LOL, Really enjoyed your video. @@BeeHereNowuk
Found your channel through the Natasha & Debbie show.
Amazing, welcome aboard!
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it.
I thought you would have included 'Nob End' near Bolton🙃
i like the picture of you stood next to sign of tw4tt with the arrow pointing at you 😂😂
There was a quiz show in the '80's where this bloke had to keep on saying, "I'm from Cockermouth in Cumbria." Even he couldn't keep a straight face!
Very fascinating and very funny video. This is epic and so comical.
You should try Knob End or have a drive along Thornydyke Avenue. Both in Bolton!
Excellent! Great fun😊
On the subject of rude street names, the town of Raunds in Northamptonshire has a street called Titty Ho. You'd be forgiven for thinking I'm joking, but I'm not! Oh, and hats off to your dedication to showcasing these Great British place names!
I always liked saying Crime Lake when I was a kid. Daisy Nook, too, hahaha! Enjoyed this one, Ollie.
A really great presentation this is Ollie. Some most unusual village names on this run from the South to the North of Britain. Most enjoyable with some lovely scenery.Many thanks, but I can see why after all that driving, you'd want to get back home to Manchester.
Top work as always Ollie - watch all your videos and I’m useless at commenting…must try harder!!
However I’ve just watched this with a smile on my face the whole video and plenty of laughing out loud.
Hope you had as much fun making it as I did watching it.
I think there might be a series in here you know…🤔
Thanks very much! Yes it was a bit of a laugh and nice to see most of the country in one trip
I don't know about a series though 😬
My great grandad lived in Slutshole lane and my nan was born just round the corner.
to add to your point about the places where men go to solicit, the majority got changed into "Grove Road" or "Grove Lane" or somehting to that effect
so if you live on a Grove Road, congrats mate, you probably live in the old red light district
You need to go to Bell End, near Rowley Regis. The bus even says "next stop Bell End"!
There's an "Hard end" in West Yorkshire.
My Auntie lives near the River Piddle ..apparently it's nasty when it floods...and I am laughing from the town of Giggleswick..
Nice one Ollie, enjoyed that although I’m now jealous you did all that driving haha 😂
There’s also a Twatt even further north in Shetland! Was hoping to visit it whilst I was up there in the summer but didn’t have time in the end
The driving was fun until near the end. I must visit Shetland one day 😄
@@BeeHereNowuk It's good for my head so I sometimes find it difficult to stop haha
Shetland is worth a visit but make sure you do it in the summer when it doesn't get dark. I was lucky enough to be there on the longest day.
crackin' effort mate! I've even beeb to the TWATT in Shetland. On my most recent trip last year the original sign has inevitably been stolen....
Lovely shot in the intro of what was our village shop/ general store in Wetwang (now a closed pine shop) we bought it in the late eighties when it was an abandoned methodist schoolroom with no roof, for£800! Rebuilt it as a village shop and ran it for a couple of years, then sold it on, it did good business, but was bought and sold in quick succession till the property had become supposedly worth more that the business it actually did! And now once again there is no village store in Wetwang,!or anywhere else for that matter! Really enjoyed the video, you never disappoint
Phil, ex Wetwang shopkeeper.!
Oh fantastic! Love personal stories like this. Shame about the lack of shops there now buti really liked Wetwang. Thanks for watching 😊
@@BeeHereNowuk i grew up in my mums village store in Langtoft , t’other side of Driffield
Awesome, thanks Ollie!
Thanks 😊
You notice how Shitterton had it's name on a huge piece of rock? That's because people kept stealing the normal signs.
Essex also contains places called: Ugley, Mucking, Messing, and Foulness. Over the Cambridgeshire border, is Six Mile Bottom.
East Anglia is flat, simply because it is the result of glacial retreat in the last great Ice Age. We have no strata of rocks here, but clays, gravels, chalk, and flint. Left behind when the glaciers retreated. Anything high in the area (if there ever was), was sanded flat by packed ice, miles thick, dragging stones and grit across the ground.
Ha ha, great fun. I can’t believe you missed out Fiddlers Ferry. Where I grew up near Huyton, Liverpool there is a road called Rimmer Avenue. You also missed Ramsbottom. 😁👍
Loved it!
Cos I’m dead big and growed up…
Fnar Fnar!!! 😂😂
There is a place in Cornwall called Cocks, Seriously!! Couldn't believe it when I saw the sign 🤣
There's a place called California in Norfolk.
There's also Knockin, a village in Shropshire, it has a convenience store known as The Knockin Shop.
There’s also a California in Scotland, near Falkirk. As well as a Moscow, near Kilmarnock.
Nob End, Greater Manchester is one of my favourites.
Thanks for doing all the driving, It really was a big effort on your part. Still, it showed us what a lovely and interesting island on which we live. I can remember somewhere in the south, perhaps Lincolnshire? driving past a road called 'Bell End Lane'. (strangely comments have just blanked this name out!). On a Bus once when the next stop announcement was 'Giggly Bottom' Anyhow, thank you once again, Ollie what a great video. J&S
Thanks for doing this, so we don't have to 😂
I thought you had stopped making videos. UA-cam unsubscribed me on several channels. I can catch up now and resubscribe. Thanks for the videos.
I've flown into Sleap (sleep) airfield in Shropshire and also flown into Little Snoring. There is also a village near Sleap called Knockin where the village shop is called 'The Knockin Shop'. There is also of course a hill in the Black Mountains called (Twmpa) or Lord Hereford's Knob.
You could have visited Jump and Wombwell after Penistone.
I used to have to drive through Tittensor in Staffordshire and I couldn’t resist a snigger.
On your way to Twatt, why didn't you pop in to Dyke? It is only about 25 miles from Inverness. And then, on your way back to Manchester you could have diverted off the M6 to take in Cockermouth.
Great fun.
Talking with your mouth full of banana and crisps - not so fun.
And on the topic of place names rather than rude names - there are a few more - which no doubt you will be inundated with people like me writing in. In this lovely country we have:
Toronto, Sydney, Palestine, New Zealand, Moscow, Melbourne, Jerusalem, Houston, Hollywood, Holland, The Hague, Gibraltar, Geneva, Florence, Egypt, Dunkirk, Denmark, Dallas, California, California, Canada, Bethlehem, Bermuda, Barcelona, and Babylon - All here in the UK, never need to leave home as the "real ones" are here.
Cheers, loved the video, it was great fun. And lastly - your morning look - well you looked a whole lot better than what I have seen mornings produce here. LOL
Hilarious.... Loved it 😊
Thanks Ollie...your films are always a great way to spend a happy half hour. When I lived in Launceston, Tasmania, there was a place called ' Deadman's Knob'...I kid you not. It's a lookout above a bend in the river that flowed through a nature reserve at the back of my house. I'm pretty sure this wasn't the Aboriginal name for the place, so maybe the early English settlers carried on with their tradition of giving locations names to remember. Anyway, thanks again for the road trip and the laughs.
Thanks very much! That is a top drawer place name right there!
There is a mountain in Wales called Lord Hereford's Knob (aka Twmpa). The band Half Man Half Biscuit wrote a song about it. Well worth a listen. ua-cam.com/video/xpGedbY9F04/v-deo.htmlsi=sSOmQQHaOZy3zMEw
You need to do another trip down the western side of the country. Then you can fit in Minge Lane in Upton-on-Severn.
I spent the first year of my life being cared for by my grandparents in Old Heath, Colchester. Visiting them during the school holidays always meant walking to Fingringhoe to see: the whalebone at the pub, the spring which fills the pond (very different in those days) and the churchyard where 'Aunt Zip' was buried. In the same grave as Aunt Zip is her father who died after a fall when working inside Abberton church. So Fingringhoe never seemed anything other than a really nice place to go.
Very funny😂.Thank you.
Thank you!
That´s so funny! In Germany we have also a lot of towns and villages with ambiguous names. Of course the nowadays meanings are different from the ancient ones 😜
Twatt is actually pronounced Twot as in James Watt which would have been a bit of a let down.
Ollie, you are a very silly man. I approve. 😆
😁 I am, glad you enjoyed it!
I love your subtitles
Hi Ollie...another great one from leftfield! I live near Penistone at Dunford Bridge at the mouth of the woodhead tunnels. BY the way was Nob End locks too close to the bone?
Thanks Jimmy. Yeah I've been nob end already and it was too close to home 😄
I was going to ask if it was worth it, but you answered that at the end. Right at the start, I thought it was going to be a complete waste of time and effort, but I watched the whole video, so maybe I was wrong. It was certainly a very long way to go for such thin rewards.
Yep totally agree. But the one good thing was that it was nice to see the whole country in just a few days. Could have been more exciting but hey, you live and learn 😂
Thanks for all your efforts. We'll funny. I used to work in lower dicker in e Sussex...and yes there was an upper dicker!
Currently watching this praying that you go to 'Lickey End' and 'Bell End', both near Redditch in the Midlands :)
Ah sadly not. Next time!
Are you sure that's what that mountain at the start is called? (btw, it's not)
In Lancashire we are blessed. From Rams Bottom and Lumb, there is Worst Horne. Then from Rib Chest Her there is Little and Great Mitton, and Clit Heroe. Ending at the Worston (in Great Britain).
Others: Hor Ton. Brace Well. Meanely. Laycock.
Clitheroe ? Ya stretching it a bit there, mush.
The sign for Twatt on Orkney was stolen a couple of years ago. FYI there is also a Twatt on Shetland (sign still there). Nice one mate.
I may have to go to Shetland one day
Saw the name place in the bus
You missed the gorgeous market hall in Penistone a modern timber roof. When you did West Auckland you could hardly have missed Cockfield or Cockton Hill
Had you gone to Kent, you'd have found Badgers Mount and Pratts Bottom.
I hope you had fish and chips in Wetwang? Best chippy anywhere 😊
There used to be definitely a Twatt sign. People have pictures beside it.
There is a sign to Twatt on Orkney and you can even buy souvenirs of the sign. There is also a Twatt on Shetland. I've been to both and had my photo taken by the signs.
LOL LOL LOL What a great watch Ollie. Question: At 6:24 I'm assuming that "Ballast Quary" was where ballast for the railroads was once quarried? 20:33 The Harry Potter bridge? Don't feel bad, we have family in Fort Worth Texas and when I drive from Redondo Beach I drive 26 hours non-stop, I do a "Gas-Coffee-Go" but the kicker is that I enjoy it.......
Thanks! Yeah good thinking about the name. I'm not sure really. Yes the Harry potter bridge it is! Oh wow, that is a lot of driving!!! I'm glad you enjoy it. 26 hours would kill me I think!
How's the Manchester Town Hall Clock Tower coming along???? @@BeeHereNowuk
@17.24, how come you are driving on the wrong side of the road?
that section of his footage is playing backwards
theres a place near me called Gash... (Aberdeenshire)
Growing up in South Africa, "bloody" was a swear word, except we used to say "bleedy"...
Yeah it was a swear word in our house when I was a kid
Dick is a common surname in Scotland, so I’d hope the street design is just a coincidence. My mate Richard married a woman with that surname. They’re a pair of Dicks.
To be fair though, even the name Manchester is a bit funny, especially when you learn of the origins of the name.
..waves from Nob End
You also missed Scunthorpe ;)
There's a New York in Newcastle. Great chanel we'll presented.
Thank you 😊
And another in Ukraine.
You must know of Peover, Lower Peover, and Over Peover in Knutsford Cheshire? I know it is pronounced "Peever", but my dad always called it Pee-over.🤣
Yes I know it! I call it pee-over too!
How could he miss Bell End and Wyre Piddle both in Worcestershire?
I once took an Ex Girlfriend on a food tour of England. We ate a cornish pastie in cornwall, a bakewell tart in bakewell, a Yorkshire pudding in Yorkshire and a Eccles cake in Eccles. The final stop was Cockermouth, she wasnt impressed.
Hahaha I knew that's where you were going and yet I still laughed out loud 😂😂
BADUMPSH!!!
You went to cockermouth !
There are plenty of places you could have gone to and didn't, like Manchester....
Excellent video as always. Very entertaining and informative. A favourite crude place name is near Aberdeen called Gash. Keep up the good work.
If you don’t live near the sea and your village has a Ship St, the likelihood is that its name was changed by bashful Victorians to conceal the spot where everyone dumped their human waste. I’m looking at you, East Grinstead.
I know people whose postcodes end in FU and BJ. The latter does not live in Cockermouth.
There's this song "a night in Dildo", which is a placename in Newfoundland (I think by the Arrogant Worms?)
There is a Petts bottom in Kent
Do you mean Prats bottom near Orpington ?
@@simonfunwithtrains1572 Pett bottom near Canterbury
Pratts bottom in orpington lol
Haha nice!
Banana and what? Crisps? Who are you? 😁😁
Hahaha I was desperate
There's a place on Bodmin Moor called "Brown Willy"
Hahaha
Hardon Grove in Manchester
Haha I actually know someone who lives on there 🤣
Didn't go to Scunthorpe, then? ;-)
Hahaha I thought about it
Missed Sexhow just off A172 ear Stokesley
Poooooo corner 😂
Dull twinned with boring, tom tit lane Maldon, and nob end Bolton 😂
😢😢😂
to be a massive pedant Fan Y Big would actually be pronounced something like van uh big
Yes true. Pedant away. 😊
Hello , you don't look like an Ollie more like a James or Matthew ! .