I had a little look on Google and found these.
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# Abington Pigotts near Cambridge.
# Ab Kettleby near Melton Mowbray.
# Ae near Dumfries. The shortest place name in Britain.
# Affpuddle near Dorchester.
# Agglethorpe in Coverdale, North Yorkshire.
# Arpafeelie north of Inverness.
# Badger's Mount near Farnborough.
# Balls Cross, West Sussex.
# Barton in the Beans, west of Leicester.
# Beeswing near Dumfries.
# Blackadder near Berwick upon Tweed.
# Blindcrake near Cockermouth, Cumbria.
# Blubberhouses near Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire.
# Blue Anchor on the Somerset coast.
# Botusfleming near Saltash, Cornwall.
# Brawl near Thurso at the top of Scotland.
# Briantspuddle near Dorchester.
# Brill east of Oxford.
# Broadwoodwidger near Launceston.
# Burton-le-Coggles near Grantham.
# Cargo Fleet Middlesborough.
# Catbrain near Cribb's Causeway, north of Bristol.
# Chaldron Herring near Lulworth Cove.
# Chignall Smeally near Chelmsford, Essex.
# Chipping Sodbury east of Bristol.
# Clatter west of Newtown, Powys.
# Cleckheaton West Yorkshire.
# Clenchwarton near King's Lynn, Norfolk.
# Clock Face near St. Helen's, Merseyside.
# Compton Pauncefoot near Yeovil.
# Court Henry near Carmarthen.
# Crank near St. Helens, Merseyside.
# Coffinswell near Torquay, Devon.
# Dent near Sedbergh, North Yorkshire.
# Dog Village near Exeter.
# Diggle east of Oldham, Greater Manchester.
# Dukinfield, Tameside, Greater Manchester.
# Dull near Pitlochry.
# Duntisbourne Leer near Cirencester.
# Easter Kinkell near Dingwall, Inverness.
# Eccup north of Leeds.
# Ferwig, Cardigan.
# Fogo near Coldstream in the Borders.
# Frenchbeer on Dartmoor.
# Four Throws near Sandhurst, Kent.
# Germansweek near Launceston.
# George Nympton near Barnstaple.
# Giggleswick near Settle, North Yorkshire.
# Glossop, Derbyshire. What a nice word.
# Good Easter near Chelmsford, Essex.
# Goole, East Yorkshire. (Just for the sound of it.)
# Goonbell near Redruth, Cornwall.
# Goosnargh north of Preston.
# Green Street Green near Farnborough.
# Grike near Egremont, Cumbria.
# Grimness on South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
# Great Snoring near Walsingham, Norfolk.
# Grumbla near Lands End.
# Gussage St. Michael near Blandford Forum, Dorset.
# Hamsterley near Bishop Auckland (also Consett) Durham.
# Haselbury Plucknett near Yeovil.
# Heanton Punchardon near Barnstaple.
# Heckmondwike east of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
# Heglibister on the Mainland of Shetland.
# Helions Bumpstead near Saffron Walden.
# Hinton Blewett between Bath and Weston super Mare.
# Hinton-in-the-Hedges near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
# Hole in the Wall near Ross-on-Wye.
# Hopton Wafers east of Ludlow.
# Howle north of Telford, Shropshire.
# Hoyland Swaine west of Barnsley.
# Huish Episcopi near Langport, Somerset.
# Idle near Bradford. (Idle Working Men's Club?)
# Indian Queens near Newquay, Cornwall.
# Inkpen near Newbury, Berkshire.
# Kemeys Commander near Pontypool, Gwent.
# Kettlesing Bottom west of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
# Killiecrankie near Pitlochrie.
# Kirkby Overblow south of Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
# Kitty Brewster, Aberdeen.
# Landshipping near Pembroke. (Rival to Manchester Ship Canal?)
# Leake Hurn's End near Boston, west of the Wash.
# Leaves Green near Biggin Hill. (Except in Autumn?)
# Leonard Stanley near Stroud.
# Leysdown on Sea Isle of Sheppey, Kent (like on the Dead Sea?).
# Loggerheads between Stoke and Shrewsbury (also near Mold).
# Long Load near Yeovil.
# Loudwater near High Wickham.
# Lower Slaughter near Bourton on the Water.
# Mabe Burnthouse, Falmouth, Cornwall.
# Mankinholes near Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
# Mappowder near Dorchester.
# Melbury Bubb near Yeovil.
# Muggleswick near Consett, Durham.
# Mumbles, Swansea.
# Nasty near Stevenage. (Nasty Women's Institute?)
# Nempnett Thrubwell between Bath and Weston super Mare.
# Netherthong near Huddersfield.
# Nether Wallop near Andover.
# New Invention near Walsall, W. Midlands. (also in Shropshire)
# Old Wives Lees near Canterbury.
# Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn.
# Piddlehinton near Dorchester.
# Pity Me north of Durham.
# Polyphant near Launceston.
# Potto south of Stockton-on-Tees.
# Pratt's Bottom near Farnborough.
# Praze-an-Beeble near Cambourne.
# Queen Camel near Yeovil, Somerset.
# Ramsbottom north of Bury, Greater Manchester.
# Ratcliffe in the Wreake north of Leicester.
# Raw near Whitby. (naked or half-baked?)
# Ruyton-XI-Towns Shropshire.
# Ryme Intrinsica near Yeovil.
# Scagglethorpe near Malton, North Yorkshire.
# Sheepy Parva near Nuneaton.
# Shellow Bowells near Chelmsford, Essex.
# Six Mile Bottom near Cambridge.
# Sixpenny Handley near Blandford Forum.
# Throcking near Stevenage.
# Thrupp near Stroud (also one near Oxford)
# Thwing near Bridlington.
# Tincleton near Dorchester.
# Trull near Taunton.
# Trunch near Cromer.
# Turner's Puddle near Dorchester.
# idiott on the Mainland of Orkney.
# Twenty near Spalding, Lincs.
# Twerton, Bath.
# Twelveheads near Redruth, Cornwall.
# Ugglebarnby near Whitby.
# Ugley near Bishop's Stortford. (Home of the Ugley Women's Institute?)
# Upend near Newmarket.
# Up Sydling near Dorchester.
# Upton Snodsbury near Worcester. (Borsetshire)
# Wendens Ambo near Saffron Walden.
# Wendy near Cambridge.
# Wergs, Wolverhampton.
# Westley Waterless near Cambridge.
# Westonzoyland near Bridgewater, Somerset.
# Westward Ho! Devon. The place with the pling!
# Wetwang near Bridlington.
# Wide Open, north of Newcastle upon Tyne.
# Wigan, Greater Manchester. How could it escape?
# Wildboarclough near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
# Wincle near Macclesfield.
# Wittering near Peterborough.
# World's End west of Birmingham, also near Newbury.
# Wormiehills on the coast, east of Dundee.
# Wrangle near Boston, west of the Wash.
# Yarkhill east of Hereford.
# Yarrow Feus south of Edinburgh.
# Yetts O'Muckhart east of Stirling.
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