Scratchy Bottom
Scratchy Bottom (or Scratchy's Bottom) is a clifftop valley between Durdle Door and Swyre Head in Dorset. A dry valley in the chalk, it is surrounded by farmland at its sides and landward end, with cliffs at the seaward end.
The name is thought to refer to a rough hollow.[1] The location came second in a 2012 poll for "Britain's worst place name" carried out by the genealogy website Find My Past.[2]
Scratchy Bottom was the location for the opening of the 1967 film Far from the Madding Crowd, in a scene in which Gabriel Oak's sheep are driven over a cliff by his sheepdog.[3]
Outside links
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- Durdle Door, Dorset – University of Southampton
- Rude Britain: The 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain by Ed Hurst and Rob Bailey ISBN 0-7522-2581-2
Coordinates: 50°37′25″N 02°16′52″W / 50.62361°N 2.28111°W
References
- ↑ "'Rude' English streets defended". BBC News. 7 January 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7812254.stm. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
- ↑ "Scratchy Bottom beats Brokenwind, but Shitterton takes the prize... for unfortunate place names". London Evening Standard. 15 August 2012. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/scratchy-bottom-beats-brokenwind-but-shitterton-takes-the-prize-for-unfortunate-place-names-8049392.html. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ↑ Far from the Madding Crowd - locations on the Internet Movie Database