14.11.10

English Place Names

I'm about to wrap up my first visit to England.  I absolutely cannot get OVER the whimsical oddities that pass for real names here in London! 

Some favorites:

Swiss Cottage (the neighborhood where my hostel is located)
Frognal Lane
Parsifal Road
Elephant and Castle
St. Pancras (my new favorite train station)
Ickenham
Tottenham Court Road
Jubilee
Piccadilly Circus (Circus?! Really?!)
Crutched Friars
Totteridge & Whetstone
Goodge Street
Tooting Bec
Wapping
Petty France (tell us how you really feel, England)
Ave Maria Lane
Allsaints Spitalfields (a store in Portabello Road)

Charmed,
Maria

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