When I saw this tweet asking for help creating fake placenames:
I need your help. I need fake town, city and county names please. Caveat: they must be realistic sounding and not offensive. Thanks!
— Christine Townsend (@ceetownsend) August 7, 2013
My inner Stinson couldn’t resist…
Pick a word from the Prefix Column, and one from the Suffix Column. If the placename doesn’t feel fancy enough, try adding a PrePrefix, or a SuffSuffix for added class!
| PrePrefix | Prefix | Suffix | SuffSuffix |
| Bishop’s | Ashe | Borough | Bottom |
| East | Bar | Bridge | de la Prefix |
| Great | Barble | Chester | Heron |
| High | Birch | Den | Hill |
| Lesser | Bracking | Dene | Ho! |
| Lower | Braff | Don | Market |
| Mid | Brig | Eaton | On Prefix |
| Middle | Carf | Folk | Park |
| New | Caver | Ford | Under Prefix |
| North | Doar | Glade | Upon Prefix |
| Old | Dud | Ham | Wood |
| South | Elm | Hampton | |
| Upper | Elmer | Ing | |
| West | Ex | Ington | |
| Ford | Ley | ||
| Fram | Market | ||
| Frappl | Mead | ||
| Free | Mere | ||
| Frent | Mont | ||
| Fromer | More | ||
| Fuller | Set | ||
| Gar | Setshire | ||
| Goose | Sex | ||
| Grassi | Shire | ||
| Keple | Ted | ||
| Kings | Thorne | ||
| Larch | Ton | ||
| Laurel | Town | ||
| Marting | Vale | ||
| Milden | Wharfe | ||
| Missen | Wick | ||
| Moare | Wood | ||
| Monks | Worth | ||
| Oak | |||
| Ox | |||
| Pars | |||
| Ponti | |||
| Priest | |||
| Rump | |||
| Rush | |||
| Russ | |||
| Snittering | |||
| Sum | |||
| Thef | |||
| Treesle | |||
| Trenn | |||
| Trumple | |||
| Weaser | |||
| Wimple | |||
| Wooth |
I am sure that, with a bit of code, you could randomly generate these placenames at the press of a button – but it’s kinda good fun just doing it by hand.