Commonly mispronounced Yorkshire place names

We asked people in Bradford for commonly mispronounced place names in Yorkshire.

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00:00 I like to say it's actually Slawik.

00:04 Ilklymur is Ilklymur.

00:08 I'm very proud of it and Bradford's Bradford.

00:11 I know that people like to call it from Harrogate, call it Harrogate.

00:16 Harrogate, but we call it Harrogate. So I'm very proud to Yorkshire.

00:22 People can mimic but there's no one more honest and passionate than Yorkshire people.

00:26 Are there any mispronounced place names you hear regularly?

00:33 Oh yeah there's loads from around here.

00:37 Heckman Wyke,

00:40 Keithley, we used to get that all the time on the radio station people calling

00:44 it Keeley. Slawit and Slathwaite, the list is

00:49 endless. There's so many places in Yorkshire where

00:51 people don't know how to pronounce the name properly.

00:55 Are there any commonly mispronounced place names you know of?

00:59 No, off the top of my head.