10 of Scotland's rudest and most unusual place names

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There are many oddly named towns, villages, and streets across the world - and Scotland is no exception. When it comes to having bizarre - and often rude - monikers for locations, we more than meet the quota.From having two islands with villages called Twatt, to having neighbouring sites named Hell and Purgatory - there's a wee bit of everything.Here we look at 10 of the strangest place names across our country and delve into their possible origins. Assloss, Ayrshire The mysterious Assloss lends its name to both a street and a region in Ayrshire.

While the origins of the moniker appear to have been lost to history, the area was previously known as Aslois, Sloss, or Asloace.And from Assloss to just plain... Lost, Aberdeenshire The Cairngorms village of Lost has inspired many puns down the years.

Its name is an Anglicised version of the Gaelic phrase 'taigh-osta', which means 'inn' or 'hotel'.The hamlet's road sign is regularly stolen by those who find the name amusing and this is seen as anything but funny by the local council, who have to pay to replace it each time it goes missing. The Bastard, Argyll More hard-hitting than most of the other names on this list, The Bastard is a hill at the south end of the Mull of Kintyre.

Could the difficulty of the climb play a part in its name... Hell and Purgatory, Orkney From rude names to evil names, the titles of these abandoned farmsteads in Orkney have an amusing history.