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Jack Longstaff & Sian David

Brothers visit West Country spots with naughty names on rude road trip of UK

If you've ever sat sniggering in the back row of a geography classroom, you might want to follow in the footsteps of two brothers who've just completed a rude place names tour of the UK - including two places in the West Country.

Andy and Magnus Tait embarked on their epic 'Rude Trip' of Britain last Friday and paid a visit to two West Country spots on their mission to visit as many naughtily-named places as possible.

Butcombe and Old Sodbury near Bristol, as well as Lower Swell just up the road in Cheltenham, were just three of the pitstops the brothers made on their 2,000-mile journey, which took them on a loop from Edinburgh down the west coast, along the south coast and back up the east coast of England.

Andy and Magnus in Butcombe, a village in Somerset near to Bristol (Andy Tait / SWNS)

They stopped off at Cumwhinton, Fanny Street, Upperthong, Butthole Lane, Willey, Titty Ho and Sandyballs.

They also visited Bellenden Gardens, Poundbottom, Cockermouth, Penistone, Butthole Bell End, The Knob, Lower Swell, Old Sodbury, Butcombe and Shaftesbury.

The pair also took in Shitterton, Lickfold, Fingringhoe, Slutshole Lane, Feltwell, Fanny Hands Lane, Scunthorpe, Rimswell and Wetwang.

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But if they'd hung around a bit longer in the West Country they could have added a few more snort-inducing place names to their itinerary.

Here in Bristol alone we've also got Belland Drive in Whitchurch, Bigwood Lane in St George,  Clay Bottom in Eastville, Cock Road in Kingswood and King Dick Lane, also in St George.

Andy and Magnus spent six years planning their journey, which included streets, villages and towns with naughty titles.

The lads spent four days on their road trip and took a selfie at 34 road, town or village signs.

Their remarkable blue tour of Britain saw them trek through at least 25 counties on each of the north, east, south and west coasts.

The trip took six years for 34-year-old Andy, from Aberdeen, to meticulously map out.

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He dreamed up the idea after he drove past a place called South Gash, in Northern Scotland in 2013 with his brother Magnus, 32, from Edinburgh.

Andy says he couldn’t help but laugh at a South Gash signpost and ever since that day has researched the location of other hilariously named places.

He then went on to painstakingly map out a route, incorporating 34 stops in almost every corner of Britain.

The brothers in Old Sodbury, which is near Yate (Andy Tait / SWNS)

“I always enjoy going out of my way to have fun and to take things too far”, said audio engineer Andy.

“It was a lot of fun and we actually saw a lot of interesting places.

“It was a bit of a slog towards the end and it was dark when we got to some places. But never at any point did we get bored.

“I’d say it’s definitely an alternative was to see Britain. We just found it hilarious.

“We laughed our a**es off at each place and that says a lot about us.”

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Andy and software developer Magnus set off on their journey from Bellenden Gardens, in Edinburgh, on the morning of Friday, April 27.

They arrived back in the same street at 1.30am on Tuesday, April 30.

He says it took him six years to convince his brother to join him on the trip after constant pestering ever since the pair passed South Gash together in 2013.

Andy chipped away at planning his route on a monthly basis over the six years, before finally packing up a few belongings, snacks for the road and wads of cash for fuel.

The route Andy and Magnus took on their tour of rude names (Google Maps / SWNS)

He says the trip saw them visit some of the country’s prettiest places.

The most picturesque places for him were Poundbottom and Sandyballs in the New Forest.

But his favourite out of the whole lot was Wilsford Cum Lake.

Andy said: “I’ve had the idea for six years now. I insisted we stopped at South Gash to take a photo but Magnus didn’t fancy it.

“That led to an obsession for places with funny names and six years later Magnus decided to make it up to me.

“He saw the funny side of it eventually.”

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Andy’s route is so well mapped out that it only took the pair between 60 and 90 minutes to drive between each stop.

He said: “We went right down the west coast, along the south coast and up the east coast of England.

“We have got a childish and immature sense of humour.

“This is something we can tick off our bucket list.”

The places the brothers visited:

From north to south, starting in Bellenden Gardens, Cumwhinton, Cocklakes Cotehill, Cockermouth, Clithero, Fanny Street, Slack Bottom Road, Upperthong, Penistone, Butthole Lane, Willey, Titty Ho, Bell End, The Knob, Lower Swell, Old Sodbury, Butcombe, Shaftesbury, Shitterton, Sandyballs, Pound Bottom landfill, Cocking, Lickfold, S. Harting, Wilsford Cum Lake, Fingringhoe, Slutshole Lane, Feltwell, Fanny Hands Lane, Scunthorpe, Rimswell, Wetwang, Coxhoe and back to Bellenden Gardens.

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