What affectionate/derogatory nicknames have you heard for places in the UK?

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1. Skeg Vegas (Skegness), Scunny (Scunthorpe), B-town (Brighton).

2. Pontefract = Ponte Carlo

   Castleford = Cas Vegas

   Manchester = Manchattan

3. Bas Vegas (Basildon)

   Shatfield (Hatfield)

4. Chippy norton

5. Chavenage. I’ll let you work out what it’s referring to.
   Cuntingdon is Huntingdon

6. Swansea

   “Ugly, lovely town” – Dylan Thomas (poet)

   “Pretty shitty city” – Terry (Twin Town)

7. Scarbados for Scarborough

8. Scumdee for Dundee

9. Christ I mean I think some may be a tad offensive and I know Reddit criers like to cry but Bradi-Stan for Bradford use to amuse me…..I’m from Birmingham and grew up around a big South Asia community, remember my Uncle Zab (not by blood Lol) use to find that hilarious!

10. Mudflat on Ditch for Swindon as several nearby Cotswolds towns have the “on Thames” or “on Water” suffix.

11. Chez-vegas for Chesterfield
    Skeg-Vegas for Skegness

12. Trowvegas (Trowbridge)

13. Depreston for Preston. Skummersdale for Skelmersdale

14. Have-a-hole for Haverhill in Suffolk.

15. Ashington has always been Ashganistan as long as i remember

16. Sunny hunny for Hunstanton

17. Monkey Hangers – Hartlepool

    I think most of the locals hate being called one though! xD Especially by some out of towner like me 😛

18. Aberdoom.

    The [town near where I come from](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Douglas) is often just known as ‘CD’, and I always find it really poignant to hear it called that way, and feel kind of homesick.

19. Basingrad.

20. My German friends said the UK was known as Inselaffe in Germany – which translates to Island of Monkeys

21. Scunthorpe

22. Ipshit = Ipswich

    (I say this as a norfolkian and ncfc supporter!)

23. Rochdale has been crochdale for quite a long time. Following our famous gromming gang I’m not sure we’re allowed to use it anymore.

24. Pecknam was a funny one

25. Bradley Stoke in Bristol is known by locals as Sadly Broke

26. We live in West Yorkshire, close to:

    Cas Vegas
    Ponte Carlo
    Methlehem

27. Oh and Cleckhuddersfax for anywhere in that general area

28. Little Hampton is known as LA, because the locals are all so chavy and rough they don’t pronounce their Hs – lil ampton in it

29. Port Toilet instead of Port Talbot

30. Abu Derby

31. Live in a town called Bideford, its split by a river. The east side of Bideford is called East of the Water. We call it Bogside…. I’m not sure if historically there was a bog there or because it’s renowned for its Council houses (and in general slightly rundown).

    Keeping on the Devon theme, Torbay is obviously known as Torbados.

32. Weston super mud

33. I’m from a town called Congleton, its often referred to as Mongleton to the point someone actually changed one of the road signs as you enter.

34. Barrybados.