Best nicknames for towns

[Ozzie Osmond]

Prompted by some great names seen in other threads, what are the most "appropriate" nicknames for UK towns? Some similar ones which have cropped up recently to start us off are,

Basildon - Bas Vegas

Basingstoke - Basingrad

Bristol - Drizzle

[ezi]

Sheffield - st

[lazyitus]

Stalybridge - Staly Vegas

[Rude-boy]

Tooting Becistan.

[Asterix]

Not in the UK but one of the posh estates in Dubai was instantly christened 'Hilton Keynes'.

[Matt Evans]

Huddersfield - The Hudd

[jamieboy]

Not exactly an 'appropriate' nickname, but:

Yabba-dabba-bingdon



edit - that's Abingdon, just in case...

Edited by jamieboy on Thursday 18th February 15:54

[standfree93]

There's a small coastal town just north of Aberdeen, called Balmedie, and alot of pupils to my school come from there, so some of us name it 'The Med'.

Edited by standfree93 on Thursday 18th February 15:54

[elster]

Castleford - Cas Vegas

With the other locality

Pontefract - Ponte carlo

[Justayellowbadge]

Littlehampton, on account of it's locals dropping the 'h' was always known as LA.

[sleep envy]

Padstein on account that he owns the entire fking town

[Plotloss]

Slough = Slug

I've always been a big fan of St. Ockwell too.

[BIST0]

Toon.

Nuff said.

[Justayellowbadge]

Sluff, I thought?

Clahm.

[sleep envy]

Blahm

Nam - tottenham/cheltenham

[Groober]

Bradford - Bradistan

[Plotloss]

Sluff too, prefer Slug though.

There's an area of Cardiff called Splott

Henceforth referred to as Splo'

[mybrainhurts]

ezi said:

Sheffield - st

I find that offensive, please delete it...






Rotherham -sthole

[The Prophet]

Ipswich = Ipst.

Very accurate.

[Dupont666]

Hell... I will leave you to work it out where it is and it should be easy.

Lungs of the north