Ways to use this list
- Tabletop campaigns: when the players wander off your map, spin a fantasy village and describe its inn, its oddest resident and its one strange local rule.
- Novel settings: a made-up town lets you invent the bakery, the school and all the gossip without upsetting anyone who lives in a real one.
- Geography lessons: show how English names are built from parts like -bury, -ford and -combe, then pupils spin a town and explain what its name suggests.
- Model railways and toy towns: name the station, the village on the hill and the next stop down the line.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (60 entries)
- Puddlecombe
- Thistlewick
- Mossbury Vale
- Hollowdene
- Brackenhythe
- Owlsbarrow
- Candlecross
- Fernwhistle
- Little Wimble
- Goosefoot Hollow
- Lanternmoss
- Dewberry End
- Wickerfold
- Toadstool Green
- Starwell
- Kettlebury
- Upper Wendle
- Market Draycombe
- Stowerby
- Haddleton
- Fennick-on-Wend
- Boddingham
- Pellingford
- Nether Cobley
- Great Mumbleby
- Wrexley Cross
- Chiddlecombe
- Ottering
- Long Fadsley
- Brindle Hatch
- Copper Junction
- Pinecrest Hollow
- Fort Halvorsen
- New Ellisport
- Bluebonnet Springs
- Silver Mesa
- Elk Ridge Crossing
- Prairie Lantern
- Port Calloway
- Hickory Bluffs
- Owl Creek Bend
- Granite Fork
- Juniper Wells
- Cottonwood Gap
- Mason's Landing
- Kookaburra Flat
- Saltbush Springs
- Bluegum Crossing
- Coolabah Wells
- Galah Hill
- Wattlebrook
- Lyrebird Point
- Bottlebrush Bay
- Quandong Creek
- Port Mallee
- Yabby Springs
- Ironbark Ridge
- Possum Rise
- Sandstone Bluff
- Echidna Flat
Questions people ask
Are these real towns?
They were invented in the style of each country. A tiny real place may share a name by coincidence, so check a map if your story needs the town to be completely fictional.
What do endings like -ford, -bury and -combe mean?
They come from Old English: -ford was a river crossing, -bury a fortified place, -combe a small valley, -ham a homestead and -wick a farm or settlement. That is why Pellingford sounds as if it sits beside a river.
How are Australian town names different?
Many describe the land, with words like creek, flat, gully and springs, and many come from Aboriginal languages. We used only English words for trees and birds, such as ironbark and galah, rather than invent Aboriginal-sounding names.
Can I name a whole region in one go?
Set Winners to 6 for six towns at once, then spin the kingdom name generator for the land that holds them all.
Why do so many English towns end in -by?
The ending comes from an Old Norse word for a farm or village, and it is common in northern and eastern England, where Viking settlers lived over a thousand years ago. Stowerby and Great Mumbleby borrow that pattern, while words like Upper and Nether (meaning lower) tell two neighbouring villages apart.