What places in the UK have the roughest-sounding names? – 22 destinations that sound even grimmer than Grimsby

Some places in the UK are considered to be nice, and have names that reflect that, like Belgravia or Houghton-le-Spring or Royal Leamington Spa. And at the other end of the scale, there are towns with undeniably prickly names.

They’ve been chewing over the UK’s most tough-sounding areas on the AskUK subreddit after PuzzleheadedCarob921 asked this:

What’s the roughest place in the UK, that also has a rough sounding name?

And if a place name could duff you up and steal your dinner money, it would be one of these…

1.

‘Grimsby sounds like something you need to get a cream for.’
–upinsmoke28

2.

‘Scunthorpe.’
–richard-bingham

3.

‘I used to be on a play by email football game website that automatically corrected this place to S****horpe.’
–topher2604

4.

‘Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough, it isn’t fit for humans now.’
–Fragrant-Prize-966

5.

‘I’ve always thought Wormwood Scrubs sounds like something out of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids.’
–Key-Cardiologist5882

6.

‘The UK had a flair for naming prisons – see also Strangeways and Barlinnie.’
–size_matters_not

7.

‘Grimesthorpe.’
–Round_Engineer8047

8.

‘The Gorbals sounds like Temu ‘The Wombles’.’
–NuclearMaterial

9.

‘Murdishaw, Runcorn.’
–SISCP25

10.

‘Downhill, Sunderland. It’s a name and description.’
–CameronFuckedmyPig

11.

‘MiddlesbROUGH.’
–ashleypenny