The home-run boundary in the film Field of Dreams, which would have been shot partly in southwestern England if the local lobby that had the region renamed had been successful. Not specifically mentioned in the film because of the obvious irrelevance of any part of the field more than five feet ahead while Kevin Costner is batting; cf. "Irrigationditchdugout," "Cowdroppingshomeplate," "Nameyourownagriculturalimplementpairedwithbaseballterm," and the particularly ornery "Bullpen."

Leeds

Old English term meaning the meeting place of sheep.

Sandbach

A small Welsh bricklayer's mate.

Borrowash

To recycle the bath water, ie putting multiple children in the same bath then using the water to wash the pots afterwards. Also a slang term used for those dodgy memebers of society that pinch ladies underware from washing lines!!

Laxey

The state of the "Ais Gill" (qv.) after six pints of Winter Warmer and a Dansak Madras.

Biblins

Multiple chins.

Pomerania

Australian fascination with all things British, verging on the obsessive.

Down Hatherley

Non-clinical depression, Yorkshire style, as in " . . .tha's lookin reet Down 'Atherley". There's been some good stuff here recently, ignoring this one. :-)

Sole Street

A thoroughfare in which most businesses are shoe markers or shoe repairers.

Cobblers

Support band for Blur Folkstone

Sorry - (one day I shall leave HTMHell)

Folkstone

The average pitch of the human voice.

Stroud

A noisy walking movement

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch

Medical term: speech impediment.

Pontefract

A bridge that has become unsuitable for HGVs ever since one tried to drive over it.

Wenlock Edge

A nervious time at my local pub Wenlock Arms [Sir Henry] Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch is one word, no hyphen.

Crowlands

The secret stash of nasal crumblies (Crows/Bogies) that children often collect under school-desks when a sleeve or handkerchief is not to hand!!

Bolton

Attached by a mechanical device

[Major Dennis]'tis on the railway sign!

Wirral

A squirrel with a heavy cold.

[Sir Henry] It may be now, but my 3d (3 old pence) "Souvenir Platform Ticket" (148mm x 50mm) has it as one word. Also I seem to remember that the Guiness Book of Records, (Longest place name in the UK,) has it as one word.

Liskeard

Adj., descriptive of a beard that is impregnated with saliva, food, and drink, due to its impractical voluminousness and the messy eating habits of its wearer.

Gdansk

A badly perfomed galloping polka with a man who doesn't realise his own strength. Usually results in a sprained wrist.

Skegness

The state of being skeggy

[Major Dennis] Aha - but go back a little more in time and it was called simply "Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll"

Devil's Dyke

A really nasty dam

[Sir H] on some cheap maps it appears as "Llanfair PG"

Writtle

Only used as the past participle, writtled, meaning old and decayed, like dried leaves etc.

Yeovil (Bloodnok) Llanfair PG is what the locals call it.

Where all the cool dudes live.

Ashton Keyhes

The result of burning wooden door keys.

Little Dunmow

Not got very far with cutting the grass.

Wookey Hole

1. The longest par five on any golf course in Somerset
2. Intimate part of large hairy lady alien's anatomy (coat!)

[Major D/Sir H] LPG?

[Softers] Best one for a while!

Widdenhill

RP reference to the stairs: 'tyme to clymb thee widdenhill to bedforsharr'.

[Bigsmith] no no no no NO!

Walcot

The proper term for a type of space-saving storage consisting of a curtain of fabric to be hung on a wall, into which are sewn many pockets for storing shoes and the like.

Bere Regis

A more potent and tasty version of Lager-and-Lyme Regis. Er, sorry about that.

Fawkham

Bernard Mathews latest TV dinner gimmick in the form of "under" Boiled Ham complete with plastic fork layed to rest in a styrafoam tray on a bed of dodgy cheese. The slogan runs along the lines of " If you can't be botherd with grilling and microwaving is not so thrilling then Fawkham!"............its bootifullllllllllllllllllllll

Denton

As in 'the Den-ton precedent' - procedural point of law involving cast members of TV soaps and exceeding the speed limit.

Worthing

Geordie for "Cosa Nostra".

Bootle

"Expenses" paid to rugby players in days gone by. (Raak) Top drawer!

Horwich

A female Wizard that makes more money by selling her body than she does casting spells and making potions!

Diggle

Dance involving shovels. [Raak] Bravo!

Dorking

Trainspotter hunting.

Sleaford

Edsel

Gomshall

A dramatic announcement made by a ventriloquist

Chagford

A river crossing guarded by a fierce ugly female troll.

Fukuoka

To hell with your yellow pigment!

Woolfardisworthy

Clothing material put aside for a particular and well deserved recipient.

Bristol

A town built especially to stop trains running into the River Seven.

Islington

The weight-throwing competition in The World's Strongest Man

Tissington

One of the two sides (the other being called Tissnington) in a dispute that has degenerated into exchanges of "Tis!" and "Tisn't!" Hansard, 6 December 1878: "Uproar in the House, followed by Tissington-Tissnington that continued for fully twenty minutes."

Poznan

Asserting the affermative to noe's grandmother.

Purton

Trade jargon, referring to the price of bulk industrial chemicals, eg methanol is about £200 Purton. (Softers) 'Oo's this noe, then? Noe needs to know. :-)

Mortlake

Yorkshire dialect meaning: "There is still a considerable amount of time before the final whistle." [Rosie] it were just a tpyo, mate.

Blunsdon

A cock-up, a hash, a pig's breakfast, as in, "You made a right Blunsdon of that, didn't you?" Also, the act of removing with extreme prejudice the person responsible for such an event, or a person marked for such removal. The word comes from Viscount Blunsdon, eldest son of Lord Cox-Bramley, who, rightly fearing that his heir lacked the business acumen to manage the family estates at such time as he might inherit, attempted to train him up by setting him to such tasks as managing the piggery, inspecting the drains, and collecting rent from the tenant farmers, but he displayed a complete lack of competence and initiative at everything his hand was set to. It was during the last of these appointments that he met an untimely end at the bottom of a well. Foul play was never proved, Lord Cox-Bramley's more industrious second son took his place in the line of succession, and everyone was satisfied.

Riveaulx

Norman word - the acts of removing permissions

Horsted Keynes

A new development of small fields built on a grid layout for race horses which will be available as soon as the unsightly houses on the site can be demolished

Lambeth

Affectionately named ewe. Chesterfield

Named after the famous revolutionary meaning "The place where terrorism is carried out" The final truncation being largely due to the slurring applied by George Dubya

Westonbirt

Someone who gives directions in terms of compass points, disregarding the existence of walls, buildings, railway lines, rivers, oceans, and all the other obstructions in the places where the roads aren't, that make it a physical impossibility to "go west for a few miles, then bear north, and you can't miss it".

Trabzon

Expression uttered by northeners whenever Rab is seen posting here.

Blakedown

The Japanese equivalent of the AA.

Leighton Buzzard

University Challenge contestant with slow reactions.

Louth

A gum disease of horses.

Snape

Very simple quick-fire upper-class card game. (Raak) Horrible, but good. :-)

Stoke Mandeville

The position accorded to new arrivals in Hell which involves keeping the fires burning.

Hindhead

A comic jape which involves thrusting the victim's head into the fundament of a horse.

Ploufragan

Corruption of Plough for a Gran, 18th Century Agricultural competition in which first prize was an elderly relative.

Wyre Piddle

Molten plastic found inside overheated electrical equipment.

Bothenhampton

A town-twinning arrangement that absolutely nobody cares about, not even the town councillors who performed the ritual. (From Böthen, a stereotypical name of a small village in Germany, and Hampton, the same in England.)

Abruzzi

A nasty/painful dark mark under the skin.

Medellin