Place names, what were they thinking?

There is a place called Nob End in Bolton:


Nob End is the site of a former waste tip, and now a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near Kearsley, Bolton, England.

Standing at the confluence of the River Irwell and River Croal it was used around 1850-70 as a tip for alkaline waste from the production of sodium carbonate (soda ash) by the Leblanc process. The waste was known as 'galligu' and was a blue sludge (from reduced iron compounds) dominated by calcium sulphide and smelling of bad eggs. The toxicity of the calcium waste has subsided and calcicolous vegetation has colonised the site. The 8.8 hectare site became an SSSI in 1988 and a Local Nature Reserve (LNR) in 2000.

In 1936 a major breach in the now defunct Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal occurred east of the Nob End locks which was never repaired.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nob_End

And there are also these place and street names scattered around Britain:



Minge Lane, Worcester (see photo above)
Twatt, Orkney
Bell End, Birmingham
Titley Close, London
Crapstone, Devon
Penistone, South Yorkshire
Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, Worcestershire
Scratchy Bottom, Dorset
North Piddle, Worcestershire
Golden Balls, Oxfordshire
Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
Wetwang, East Yorkshire
Boysack, Angus
Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire
Bachelors Bump, Essex
Hope, Derbyshire
Clowne, Derbyshire
Westward Ho!, Devon
Lost, Aberdeenshire
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Anglesey. The name is Welsh. It means: [St] Mary's Church (Llanfair) [in] the hollow (pwll) of the white hazel (gwyngyll) near (goger) the rapid whirlpool (y chwyrndrobwll) [and] the church of [St] Tysilio (llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo goch).
No Place, County Durham
Cockup, Cumbria
Upper Dicker, East Sussex
Pity Me, County Durham
Nasty, Hertfordshire


Also, the Bank of England in the City of London is on Threadneedle Street, which leads from Bishopsgate to a junction with Poultry, Cornhill, King William Street and Lombard Street. The street used to be known as Gropecunt Lane because it was a favourite haunt of prostitutes.