Placenames not to conjure with

hmg

Victory lap
I've always wondered, is Billericay an Irish colony in Essex?

Drax
Corby
Haggerston
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Why are these names not to conjure with?

Is it anything to do with the names or is it just we know that e.g. Skegness is supposed to be a bit shit?
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Like 'Swindon' doesn't sound any worse than 'London' as a word, we just think of Swindon as this godforsaken provincial outpost
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
It would be interesting to run some of these English placenames by a foreigner and see which strike them as being prosaic and which glamorous
 
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