A suitable place to build a tree house.

Farleigh Wallop

Farleigh Wallop (pr. farly wollup) To hit a cricket ball a bloody long way Piddlehinton

Sorry

Piddlehinton

Having parked in a lay-by, to walk inordinately far through the bushes in search of a place to take a leak where you will not be observed from the road.

Cranstackie

A small building which appears to consist entirely of corners, whether viewed from inside or outside, and generally resembles a cottage for the more architecturally challenged kind of witch.

Mallaig

An old Lancashire dish - a luxurious pudding made of milk, lard, and slightly off eggs. Utterly revolting.

Bloxham

A pharmaceutical trade name, ca. 1950. When you went abroad in those days you always took these little pills with you. You know what the water's like in those places.

Leatherhead

A slang term which is to football what "punch-drunk" is to boxing: minor brain damage inflicted by repeated blows to the head, in this case incurred particularly by aging centre-forwards from heading the ball too often. Particularly prevalent three or four decades ago, when the football was generally (a) heavier, and more importantly (b) more absorbent of water, therefore heavier still in rainy conditions, which was (and remains) most of the football season. Less prevalent now, for obvious reasons, and Gascoigne is *not* an example (almost never headed a ball in his life, he really *is* that dumb naturally.

Istanbul

a sort of hissed expletive made sotto voce when someone in your company is talking utter bollocks [eg. lunch with the boss and his wife] but it wouldn't be prudent to say so.

Strabane

(pron. St. Ra-barney.) The patron saint of punch-ups.

Hever

A particularly attractive lady, from the expression "Wouldn't 'hever' out of bed!"

Torlundy

Was a small settlement established in the year 894ad by two viking invaders, Tor and Lundy. They agreed to name it after the both of them and Tor won the arm wrestle, giving him the right to have his name first.

Tipton

The experience of suddenly finding oneself under a great big pile of something.

Foots Cray

Ronnie & Reggie's personal cobbler.

Fitzpaine

The discomfort endured by a woman who is convinced that her size 8 feet will go into size 6 shoes.

Sgiogarstaigh

The feeling you get when taking over half an hour to wake up following a night out on the piss.

Clovelly

Attractively overspiced.

Snoqualmie

Some mothers do 'ave 'em. Try Crowborough

An alternative for 'coven'

Pimlico

When the viking town of TorLundy became a thriving metropolis, the founding fathers were continually arguing over who should be King. Yet again Lundy lost the arm wrestle and Tor stayed as King of TorLundy, which was then renamed Torlundy. Lundy took his friends and family and set off in search of somewhere new to build a settlement. They found a large open space and, upon seeing this, Lundy exclaimed "There's northing there, a whole ton of northing." The name stuck and the town of Northington was founded.

Tadcaster

[Deek] I don't think you've quite grasped the idea of this game

Tadcaster

A person who fishes for tadpoles.

Wroclaw

The ancient right to ignore laws when they obviously don't apply to you.

Anglesey

What a Tadcaster aspires to do some day.

Malvern

[LotUS] Not at all.

A person who lives in a shopping mall. (that's better, but the Viking stuff was quite good.)

Skegness

Description of the amount of incrustation on the gusset of well used underpants. (Deek) The viking stuff made me chuckle. However, I think you may have invented the whole new game of "How places got their names".

Alpe Duez

The money owed for use of a mountain in Europe

[Bigsmith]I agree, next time there's a game slot available, we should try it for real

Verbier

A person who uses too many verbs in conversation or writing. verby, verbier, verbiest.

[Bigsmith & Gusset] There is always Tor and Lundy's brothers, Lon and Don.

Catterick

Something that started out life as a cat basket and has been unravelled, most probably but not necessarily by the cat, enough that it now resembles an extremely disorganised bundlle of straw.

Wagga Wagga

A dog whose enthusiasm exceeds his coordination, to the point where he will fall over from over-vigorous tail wagging.

Walla Walla

Exclamation of French origin, uttered on completion of numerous tasks (walla, walla). Popularised by waiters in East London hotels.

Stoke Bruerne

A commercial colour palette consisting of shades of brick, mud, charcoal, steel, slate, stone, and dark smoke, giving a feeling of old-fashioned industrial vigour and nostalgia for grinding poverty, and a turning away from modern technology. Matching motifs are belching smokestacks, minehead machinery, cobbled streets, and muted brass bands in the distance. Stoke Bruerne has been scheduled to be the fashionable colour scheme for clothes, home furnishings, and mobile phones in Autumn 2006.

Deopham (pron. Deef'm)

(This is the link I meant to use, not the ICC.)