Companion website for The Great British Limerick Book
A small selection of filthy limericks from the book
Click on any of the images below to see the complete limerick. The left and right arrows can then be used to scroll through and read all the limericks in the gallery.
There are hundreds more in the book. The Great British Limerick Book has a filthy limerick for (nearly) every town in the UK - including your home town!
List of limericks currently featured in the gallery and their first lines
Ashington, Northumberland
In Ashington there was a miner
Bath, Somerset
There was a professor from Bath
Cheadle, Greater Manchester
To his girlfriend, a young man from Cheadle
Hackney, Greater London
As a chemist I worked once in Hackney
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Anglesey, Wales
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Nuneaton, Warwickshire
There was a young man from Nuneaton
The Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland
When I was on the Isle of Skye
Waltham Abbey, Essex
A young lady from Waltham Abbey
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