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28 Nov 16 - 09:46 PM (#3823391) Subject: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Bee-dubya-ell It's pretty common for highway exit signs in rural areas to include the names of two towns, often one if you exit right and another if you exit left. Occasionally, those two town names will accidentally create a first-and-last-name combination that would be a possible name for a real person Here are a few I've come across in recent travels: On Interstate 65 in Alabama: Grace Garland* Georgiana Starlington** Hope Hull Jemison Thorsby On Interstate 10 in Florida: Madison Perry * Grace Garland is a real actress/singer's name. Whether she was named for the exit sign, I have no idea. ** Georgiana Starlington is the name of a band and also the name of a lovely waltz by Alabama fiddler Tom Morley. I'm 100% certain both owe their names to the exit sign. Please add any you've come across. |
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28 Nov 16 - 10:00 PM (#3823394) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Rapparee Rose Firth. About 35 miles north of here. When visitors ask I tell them that Rose and her sister, Shelley (also about the same distance away), used to treat local cowboys really, really nice. |
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29 Nov 16 - 03:59 AM (#3823413) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Mr Red I always remember: south of Birmingham (UK) in an area called Hollywood. " Pink Green only " (a farm). It still says " Pink Green ". & on the A38 approaching this city a sign used to say " Derby Littleover 4 " and there are plenty of things like "Old Sodbury" and "Old Sarum" |
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29 Nov 16 - 04:32 AM (#3823419) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Senoufou In Cambridgeshire (UK) while prison visiting, I used to pass a sign saying The Wilbrahams'. It actually refers to two villages, Great Wilbraham and Little Wilbraham, but I always imagined a very popular couple who had lots of visitors and helpfully signposted their residence! |
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29 Nov 16 - 01:41 PM (#3823526) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Bee-dubya-ell In southern Indiana, Seymour is to the west of I65 and Fleming is to the east. I've driven past that exit many times but I don't remember the sign saying "Seymour Fleming", just "Seymour". A missed opportunity IMHO. |
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29 Nov 16 - 02:26 PM (#3823528) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Mrrzy Deaf child. Blind driveway. Warning signs next to each other on a road I was on once... |
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29 Nov 16 - 04:23 PM (#3823540) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Jon Freeman Can't think of any round here but thinking of place names reasonably close by rather than actual signposts I know, perhaps we could have a 3 way one and a Mr Trunch Gimingham-Trimingham - seems to have a ring to it. |
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29 Nov 16 - 04:50 PM (#3823543) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Senoufou Ha Jon, you must live near Cromer! |
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29 Nov 16 - 05:11 PM (#3823544) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Jon Freeman I do. Trying to think of one from N Wales now. I think this misses an 'a' that the name would probably have but I think you would find Conwy Chester or alternatively Chester Conwy on a road sign. |
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29 Nov 16 - 06:06 PM (#3823555) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Senoufou Very near us, one could set up a sign saying 'Elsing Fustyweed'. (a village and an adjacent hamlet in Norfolk) It sounds to me like a character from a Harry Potter film. (Fustyweed are always getting their sign nicked. People can't believe it's a real name.) |
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29 Nov 16 - 06:55 PM (#3823561) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Jon Freeman I guess between you and Aylsham, we could have a Salle (pronounced Saul) Cawston. |
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30 Nov 16 - 03:56 AM (#3823590) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: BobL A road sign off the A418 near Aylesbury points to two villages, Dinton and Ford. I sometimes wonder if this, slightly modified, inspired the stage name of singer Clinton Ford. Undeniably true: about a mile south of the town of Sandwich, in the county of Kent, there's a village by the name of Ham. About a mile-and-a-quarter south of Sandwich there is a road sign... |
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30 Nov 16 - 04:35 AM (#3823600) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Senoufou Haha Jon. Or Saul Heydon. There's a sign saying 'The Snorings' near Thursford in N Norfolk. It refers to the villages of Little Snoring and Great Snoring. The ancient church there is called 'St Mary The Virgin Great Snoring'. She must be having a lovely long sleep. |
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30 Nov 16 - 05:57 AM (#3823611) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Mr Red "Seymour Fleming", just "Seymour". A missed opportunity IMHO. Just my associations but was that a case of missing the (cough cough) spittoons? I always remember a sign in Kings Heath district of Birmingham that pointed to "BPAS" (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) above "Ace Tube Manipulators". Ooer, missus! FWIW I collect Street names that have curious juxtapositions. Too many to mention but town planners have a sense of humour that goes un-noticed sometimes. |
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30 Nov 16 - 06:13 AM (#3823613) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Jon Freeman I think I've been in that church, at least I seem to remember being told we were going to Great Snoring. We used to visit my grandfather in Norwich during parts of school holidays and my parents liked to visit Norfolk churches so even if I can't remember them, I was taken round a few. Salle, mentioned above possibly was my mother's favourite church - I believe quite a magnificent building. |
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30 Nov 16 - 04:16 PM (#3823720) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Mike in Brunswick On U.S. Route 1, approaching the Belfast, Maine turnoff, there is a sign proclaiming Belfast Brooks Freedom It sounds like some kind of political statement, but actually refers to three towns in the area. Mike |
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30 Nov 16 - 04:33 PM (#3823725) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: JennieG Not an exit sign, but a small gully an hour or two south of here which probably has water flowing through after heavy rain - "Willy Wally Gully". |
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01 Dec 16 - 12:14 PM (#3823879) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: David C. Carter Driving through Germany,the first sign we passed read "AUSFAHRT",My son who was driving,nearly left the road. Near the border of Slovenia there"s a town called "FAAKERSEE",we always remember that place. |
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01 Dec 16 - 03:36 PM (#3823915) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Jack Campin A bit after the bridge from the mainland onto the island of Krk in Croatia you pass a big sign marking two of its towns - Krk one way, Vrh the other. There oughta be one saying "last vowel for 50 km". |
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01 Dec 16 - 05:12 PM (#3823938) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Senoufou I've always thought it a shame that Split and Bled are in two different E European countries. It would make such a nice road sign if they were one or two kilometres apart. (And the shortest accident report ever) |
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02 Dec 16 - 06:14 AM (#3824040) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Mr Red Cockermouth has a road called The Mount, though which is a Belle Vue is a moot point! |
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02 Dec 16 - 07:08 AM (#3824050) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Senoufou Total thread drift (apologies) but aren't some house names daft? There's a small bungalow near us, pretentiously called 'Farm View'. It looks onto a huge brick wall. True, behind the wall is an old barn, but it hasn't been 'viewable' for hundreds of years, and the 'farm' was built over with modern housing. There's also a house facing an abattoir in another village; they can watch the lorries coming in with condemned-for-slaughter animals, and hear their squeals (I couldn't live there if you paid me.) The house is cheerfully called 'Sunny Days'!!! |
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02 Dec 16 - 07:44 AM (#3824054) Subject: RE: BS: Highway Exit 'Name' Game From: Tootler Place names in Co. Durham, UK Snods End Pity Me No Place Wallish Walls |