Pink road signs and funny place names

Great Snoring and Little Snoring are two other towns who possess curious names despite their relatively mundane appearance.

Set in the backdrop of Norfolk in south-east of England the two towns sit near the edge of the coastline.

The strange and curiously titled village of Wetwang sits at the northern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds in England. Like Lower Slaughter there are several suggestions to the origin of the places name.

One of the more popular theories is that Wetwang gained its name from the Viking word Vaettvangrr which means the 'field of summons'.

But despite its bizarre name Wetwang knows how to draw in the tourists. The town was subtly featured in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy under the fictional name of 'Nidalf'.

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