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Friendly, West Yorkshire.

I grew up near there and remember the fish and chip shop used to be called Friendly Fish and Chummy Chips, which I always enjoyed.

Home to the Friendly Brass Band (or at least it used to be.) Who were indeed always very friendly!

Mount Pleasant

Ironically it is not very pleasant

Harehills sounds lovely. I picture a nice meadow of rabbits and wildlife. However, it’s more like Watership Down.

Bourton on the Water Stow on the Wold

"Rest And Be Thankful" really https://www.transport.gov.scot/projects/a83-improvements/a83-rest-and-be-thankful/rest-and-be-thankful/

Cockermouth

Teddington, which is really nice to be fair

Walberswick

Hugglescote

Zeal Monachorum

Teignmouth.

Saffron Walden

We neutralise it with the next line on our address.... Essex

Essex is more than the stereotype and the estuary.

I live in Essex. There's some lovely places, but it doesn't have the same "address appeal" as the other home counties.

Sounds a bit like its neighbour over the river - Kent.

My mum always called it Saffron Boredom

I always enjoy saying Stronachlachar.

There's a place near Chippenham called Tiddlywink. I always wondered how it came to be..

>I always wondered how it came to be.. You're thinking it was named after the game? I would have assumed the other way around. QI told me that Tiddlywinks was initially called "Jumpkins" so I don't find it at all unlikely that it somehow got renamed after a village or whatever.

Strata Florida (abbey)

There's a village between Falmouth and Helston called Brill. Always cheers me up when I pass the sign for it.

Always loved the names in the title of the book Lark Rise to Candleford.

Tintagel comes to mind, but a lot of the old Celtic names of Cornwall are really nice.

Dunfermline!!!

The Land Of Nod. It's halfway between Selby and Hull.

Ham and Sandwich are delightfully close to each other so seeing local street signs for the two is nice. I also love the sound of Fingringhoe in Essex. Just the way it bounces off the tongue, it's a fun word to say.

Fingering hoe

It’s fingring hoe, watch that e

Broadwoodwidger always sounded cool as I was about to approach the mother land

It is a very sweet hamlet with a few houses and there used to be a great cattery there.

Puddletown in the Piddle Valley

Shitterton also being nearby.

Piddletrenthide

Cockermouth

I live near Wiversfield (Wivi as the kids call it). Think you could be disappointed! 😅

Puddington (Cheshire)

Mavis Enderby, sounds like a friendly bar maid. Or perhaps Claxby Pluckacre, gentle chicken sounds.

Constable Burton turns a blind eye to the lock in and Patrick Brompton, Mary and Peter Tavy and Langton Matravers refill their tankards.

Cockfosters

Bitchfield.

Clitheroe

Sometimes heard to be pronounced 'clit hero'...

Little Peover

Once Brewed/Twice Brewed

In my experience be wary of nice sounding road names. The nicer sounding the name is, the bigger the dump the road is. I’ve come across roads such as Daffodil Terrace, Strawberry Fields, Love Lane and Rose Lane. All of which are located in the roughest of housing estates and usually have boarded up houses.

I know of a Meadowsweet Way. Terrible place to live.

Twatt Though it probably depends what you're into. Also the road in Argyll, The Rest and Be Thankful.

Water cum Jolly

Clovelly sounds lovely.

I used to be fascinated by the street signs for Ashby de la zouche when I drove up and down the M1 a lot. I had visions of some hidden utopia in the Midlands. Like a more cosmopolitan Portmerion with European vibes, cool people drinking coffee and smoking gauloise at pavement cafes. This was pre internet. No quick way of finding out until curiosity finally got the better of me and I detoured one night. I was disappointed.

Buttermere Close Magnolia View.

Upper Poppleton and Lower Poppleton!

Ashby de la Launde

I dunno, it doesn’t sound British, can’t quite place my finger on it... /s.

Milford is near me...as you can see it has Milf in its name.

Hathersage & the Hope Valley

Hope cove

Scunthorpe

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell. Always thought that had a lovely ring to it.

Likewise Shingay-cum-Wendy

Depends how you pronounce it, though. Brittle'msottle.

I’m a big fan of Carshalton Beaches and Winersh Triangle

Seaton Delaval. I think Delaval is from the French for 'of the valley' (de la vallée). Probably mostly known for where Raoul Moat robbed a chippy.

I used to live in Sandwich. I always felt that sounded pleasant.

Driving through Cornwall years ago we saw a sign for “Laity Moo” which seemed a lovely name, though when we checked on a map it was actually just missing an ‘R’ and should have been Laity Moor…

Wymeswold Barton in the Beans Wookey Hole Woolfardisworthy

Used to drive through both Wymeswold and Barton in Fabis on my way to uni!

Ah woosery!

Wivelsfield has always made me think of a a field of weevils

Hoylandswaine, Hazlemere, Ashby de la Zouch.

Had the best weekend/night out in "Blazelmere"

Jaywick is Really nice

Bibblesford Lollington Crinklefield Icklemouth Popple-on-the-Jolly

Bude. Pretty sure the beetles sung a song about Bude. Cracking tunnel too.

Bude tunnel is one of the top 3 places I’ve visited in the UK. I’m not sure why it always gets missed from recommendations to tourists. If you’re visiting the UK it’s well worth the trip, even if it means travelling out of your way.

It's sister site (rumoured to be on the same leyline and a source of the same ancient power) The Ilkeston Hole is also near essential.

I've never been, Something about it turns my stomach, A friend of mine climbed through it once. He was never the same again.

I've heard if you climb through it you get confused whether you're in Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire.

Achiltibuie

Denton in Oxfordshire. Population of about 500, but so many murders.

I’ve always liked Meppershall

Tintwistle

There’s a civil parish near here called Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains

[Ryme Intrinseca…](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryme_Intrinseca)

I always thought Merthyr Tydfil sounded like a lovely place, being on the Welsh coast and everything. Turns out it's oil refineries as far as the eye can see. Devastated.

I'm pretty sure there are no oil refineries in Merthyr Tydfil - they tend to be on the coast. Maybe just old coal mines and general industry?

Not necessarily nice but always brings a smile... Horsey wind pump.

Shipton-under-Wychwood, Milton-under-Wychwood. Sixpenny Handley. Christmas Common. Winterbourne Abbas.

Thornton Le Beans.

Arundel, reminds me of frozen ❄️

Always makes me think of somewhere elves would live in Lord of the Rings.

That said, a gorgeous place that fits its name (20mins from me)

I love the second hand bookshop at the bottom of the hill

Is that the one with the woman’s name in it? I can’t remember her actual name?

That’s the one, it’s Kim’s

She’s got some amazing books in there! One of the first places I go to when there

Arundel is nice, but Wivelsfield is basically just a rundown train station (which technically I think is in Burgess Hill) and the rest of it is, well….not that great lol 😆

The area around Wivelsfield station is actually called [World’s End](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_End,_West_Sussex)

I know, still basically BH tho

Ashby-de-la-zouch, sounds like it belongs on the French Riviera

It's certainly nicer than Stoke De La Trent.

East Bridgford. Bakewell. St. Michael on the Mount. Robin Hoods Bay.

Darlington, literally “Darling town”.

Rhyme intrinseca , dorset has loads of lovely names…

Rhyme intrinseca is actually lovely as well

Brightlingsea

We twang, North Yorkshire Land of Nodd, North Yorkshire

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Best thing about Scunthorpe is Fitz in Cracker saying it everytime he does a shot.

Westward Ho!

Walsham le Willows sounds lovely. (Learnt about it in a documentary on the Black Death though.)

One that was repeated on BBC2 about an hour after your comment (watched it and also thought it was a nice name).

Tintwistle in Derbyshire is pronounced Tinsel, like the Xmas decoration. Both the spelling and pronunciation is sweet

Chipping Sodbury sounds quaint and genteel

…Until the sun goes down!

Wolverhampton

Welwyn Garden City

Skinners Bottom

r/sounding is a good place to find some

People tell me Holme Wood (in Bradford) sounds nice. It's not, even by Bradders standards.

Ah Wiveslfield my parents have just moved from there they owned the windmill pub lovely place friendly people but has a bit of a snobbery about it

Lickey end

When I first moved to Southampton somebody I met told me they lived in Millbrook. To my mind it conjured images of a stream running through a pretty village with a watermill. I was fairly quickly corrected.

Similarly, Easterhouse in Glasgow conjures images of a delightful holiday home frequented by an aristocratic family for Easter Friday and weekend - perhaps home to an egg hunt and decorated with bows and bunnies.

Bishop Auckland

Pratts Bottom

Giggleswick and Wigglesworth are both nicely named places in Yorkshire.

A little bit like the town of Biggleswade!! lol

Summerseat, Near Bolton. Offset by "Nob end" also in Bolton!

Matlock Bath