HAPPY BOTTOM, DORSET
No person gets here
by sitting around all day.
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Note: To explore these unusual place names, I urge readers to visit Google Earth to see where on earth they are situated and then to visit Wikipedia for expanded historical information. All of this is difficult to convey in just 17 syllables.
LYCHETT MATRAVERS
Lichett means grey Wood
Feudal Lord Hugh Maltravers
Name from Brittonic
Note: To explore these unusual place names, I urge readers to visit Google Earth to see where on earth they are situated and then to visit Wikipedia for expanded historical information. All of this is difficult to convey in just 17 syllables.
SPOONERISM
Letters are transposed
Blushing crow for crushing blow
name from Miss Spooner
CRICKET ST. THOMAS
In the Domesday book
Near Yeovil, south Somerset
To the manor born
ULCEBY SKITTER
Lincolnshire Wolds place
Northeast near River Humber
Just a small hamlet
Fa - the Green Dragon 
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