Shitterton

Ok folks, for everone who enjoyed the Scratchy Bottom post, here is another to amuse and delight.  This heavyweight sign in Purbeck stone is a recent instalment that has replaced the usual metal signs which were regularly stolen for some strange reason!  The name is probably derived from a river called Shiter, "a brook used as a privy", but we can assure you the brook is crystal clear these days! 

Shitterton itself is charming; a tiny hamlet filled with lovely thatched cottages. One house is even appropriately named Pooh Corner! The place is sometimes referred to as Sitterton, so as not to offend those of a more delicate disposition...