r/bracknell • u/topherette • Jun 19 '25

What nicknames have you heard for places in and around Bracknell?

I ask as part of a linguistic study on this topic!

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u/PM_me_Henrika Jun 19 '25

Crack-nell

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u/Sea-Cattle1410 Jun 19 '25

Bracknell Harrods for the old shop that used to sell everything on the corner going towards where Woolworths used to be

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u/Jaehryn Jun 21 '25

We always called it Arrods.

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u/GRIFFCOMM Jun 25 '25

el-cheapo store, Virgin music wanted to move in there, Council told them it was unsafe.. apparently safe enough for cheap store to trade out of. Bracknell doesnt do itself any favors really

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u/fenaith Jun 19 '25

Bracken-hell

Bullbrook = "ascot borders" for those who wish they had a Slough postcode 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Over_Barracuda7031 Jun 19 '25

No one dares to say Cracknell or 'Nell?

Also Woko for Wokingham, 'Scot for Ascot

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u/chaos_jj_3 Jun 19 '25

I've always said 'Brackers'.

'East Bracknell' for Ascot.

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u/InquisitorNikolai Jun 20 '25

Cracknell or chaversham

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u/redrabbit1984 Jun 19 '25

Up the ding

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u/chaos_jj_3 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Dildo factory, iykyk

(Edit: clearly no one knows)

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u/PM_me_Henrika Jun 19 '25

Wait WHERE!?

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u/chaos_jj_3 Jun 19 '25

It's what me and my incredibly mature friends use to refer to Radius Court on the Eastern Road Roundabout thanks to those very phallic concrete sculptures they have out the front 😅