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.