Booti Booti National Park, Cocking, Cunter, and more places!

I'll bring you the A-L places from this book that Jon and Harmony got me for my birthday. This is from Butt Rot and Bottom Gas: A Glossary of Tragically Misunderstood Words (Eric Groves, Sr.)


Beaver Lick and Bitchfield: A Glossary of Tragically Misunderstood Places

A

Assawoman: a community in Accomack County, Virginia, that is not formally incorporated as a self-governing town, but is chiefly administered by Accomack County

Asse: a municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany


B

Ballsbridge: a suburb of Dublin, Ireland

Barf: a mountainous region in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, that borders Bassenthwaite Lake, the largest of the district's sixteen lakes

Båstad: a municipality in Scania, Sweden

Bastar: a state in India

Beaver: a village in northeastern Alaska

Beaverlick: a city in Boone County, Kentucky

Big Bone Lick State Park: a state park near the town of Big Bone, in Boone County, Kentucky [the word "lick" in the park's name refers to the fact that wild animals gather there to lick the abundant salt found in the park's soil and springs]

Big Hole River: a tributary of the Jefferson River in Montana

Bitchfield: a tiny village in Lincolnshire, England [the village's main street, Dark Lane, separates the two parts of Bitchfield, known as Lower Bitchfield and Bitchfield]

Booti Booti National Park: a national park in New South Wales, Australia

Brest: a seaport in the Finistère area of France

Buckhead: a village in the northern section of Atlanta, Georgia

Bullskin: a township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Bungay: a town in Suffolk, England

Butt Bridge: a bridge and roadway over the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland

Butte: a city in Silver Bow County, Montana

Butt of Lewis: the northernmost point of the isle of Lewis, Scotland

Butztown: a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania


C

Cape Circumcision: a peninsula on Bouvet Island, a sub-Antarctic island discovered by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on January 1, 1739 [because the Catholic holiday known as the Feast of the Circumcision also falls on January 1, Bouvet named his new peninsula Cape Circumcision]

Cellardyke: a village in Fife, Scotland

Climax Springs: a village in Camden County, Missouri

Clit: a village in Arad County, Romania

Cockermouth: a picturesque town in Great Britain, in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, near the Cocker and Derwent Rivers [Cockermouth is internationally famous as the birthplace of the renowned British Romantic poet William Wordsworth]

Cocker River: a river in Cumbria County, England

Cocking: a village and civil parish in West Sussex, England

Condom: a town in Gers, France

Coxhoe: a village in the County of Durham, England

Coxsackie: a town in Greene County, New York

Cumming: a city in Forsyth Country, Georgia

Cummings Park: a park located in Stamford, Connecticut

Coming Street: a street that intersects Seaman Avenue in the Inwood area of upper New York City [Cumming Street can be reached by traveling west on Dyckman Street and turning right onto Seaman]

Cunter: a village in the Albula district of Switzerland


D

Devil's Dyke: a valley on the South Downs Way in England

Devil's Water: a river near Hexham in Northumberland, England

Didling: a hamlet in West Sussex, England

Dildo: a small seaside town in Newfoundland, Canada

Diss: a town in Norfolk, England

Duckhole: a small village in south Gloucestershire, England

Dyke: a hamlet in Lincolnshire, England


F

Fair Head: a rocky headland in Northern Ireland

Fanny: a community in Wyoming County, West Virginia

Fanny Bay: a village in British Columbia, Canada

Fartown: a suburb of Huddersfield, in west Yorkshire County, England

Fingringhoe: a village and civil parish in Colchester, England

Flushing: a neighborhood in the borough of Queens, in New York City

Foulness: an island on the east coast of Essex, England

French Lick: a town in Orange County, Indiana

Frog Buttress: a rock-climbing area near the town of Boonah, Australia

Fucking: a village of about 150 people in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innvietel region of upper Austria, near the border with Bavaria, Germany [the name Fucking comes from an early eleventh-century founder named Focko, and means "the Place of Focko's People"]

Fukien: a province on the Taiwan Strait in southeastern China


G

Gas: a city in Allen County, Kansas

Gassville: a city in Baxter, Arkansas

Gay: a town in Meriwether County, Georgia

Gay Head: a town on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts [Founded in 1699 by English settlers and incorporated in 1870, Gay Head was purportedly named after the island's gaily-colored cliffs. In 1997, residents decided to restore the town's original Native American name, Aquinnah.]

Gays: a village in Moultrie County, Illinois

Gayville: a town in Yankton County, South Dakota

Glasscock: a county in west-central Texas

Grabhair: a village on the shore of Loch Oldhairn in Scotland

Greenhead: a small village in Northumberland, England

Grosse Tête: a village in Iberville Parish, Louisiana


H

Harden: a township in New South Wales, Australia

Hell Corner: a village in Berkshire, England

Hell Hole Gorge: a national park in Queensland, Australia

High Dyke: a village in County Durham, England

Horndean: a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England

Horning: an ancient village in Norfolk, England

Horpit: an agricultural hamlet in Wiltshire County, England

Hose: a village in Leicestershire County, England


I

Intercourse: a village in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania


J

Jackfield: a village in the Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, England


K

Kiester: a city in Faribault County, Minnesota

Knockin: a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England

Krabi: a southern province in Thailand


L

Lago de Poopó: a lake in western Bolivia

Lake Nipissing: the fifth-largest lake in Ontario, Canada

Lake Titicaca: Earth's highest navigable lake, approximately thirteen thousand feet above sea level [Lake Titicaca is located between Bolivia and Peru, and is owned jointly by the two countries. Water flows from the lake into the Desaguadero River and from there to Bolivia's Lake Poopó.]

Le Tampon: a commune on the French island of Réunion

Lickey End: a village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England

Licking: a city in Texas County, Missouri

Love Canal: a community in Niagara Falls, New York

Loveland: a city in Larimer County, Colorado

Lower Bitchfield: part of the village of Bitchfield, in Lincolnshire, England

Lower Tooting: a neighborhood in London, England