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........also near Bradford is Idle - and it does have an Idle Working Men's Club.

There's Slepe near Poole, Dorset.

Shitterton, Nob End and Twatt, to name but a few . Check out Huffington Post.

Think I'll give the Huff Post a miss, Albie.
Why Chipping Norton, or Drayton in the Clay?
You can pass an interesting hour browsing through an atlas of Britain.
Many places end in -ham?
Elle, try not to fall into St Katherine's Dock and ruin the boys' streed cred!

When I lived in South London, I used regularly to drive through, in quick succession, Badgers Mount Pratt's Bottom.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch?
Up here, in Glendevon, there are two neighbouring villages. Pool of Muckhart and Yetts o' Muckhart.
A yett is an old word for a gate.
In the Borders there is Kirk Yetholm.
Kirk being church, yet/t being gate, unsure of holm, though holm is in many place names.
Anyway, off out for a wee while!

Goodness, Chris!
Exploring an atlas on a rainy afternoon takes a bit of beating!
I vaguely remember off the A1 in the Newcastle Southish area seeing a signpost to "Something"-next-to-the-Sea.
I have forgotten what the "something" was.
I thought that "next-to-the Sea" was a very quaint name. Sounded to me like somewhere Postman Pat would go his holidays to!

Moving south, Piddletrenthide in Dorset.

They are less wordy in Norfolk..................Wells next the sea.

I like that one, Rossim!
Do you know the origin?