List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom

This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names.

These common suffixes have these regular pronunciations, yet would be counterintuitive (irregular) in normal English. This means that their modern pronunciation might be regarded as counter-intuitive to their spelling, which is not counterintuitive as it is historic, regular, well-established, and etymologically consistent.
 * -b(o)rough and -burgh –
 * -bury –
 * -cester –
 * -combe, -coombe, -comb and -cambe – . When stand-alone: always (including in place names such as Castle Combe and Coombe Bissett)
 * -ford –
 * -gh – silent (usually as 'f' in a considerable minority of northern English place names and in Woughton, Milton Keynes)
 * -ham –
 * -holm(e) – ,
 * -mouth –
 * -shire –, , (esp. in Scotland)
 * -wich - ,
 * -wick –

Prefixes:
 * Al- –, ; with very few exceptions such as Alba, Alperton.
 * Saint- –, for most speakers.

Other:
 * -on- – as first syllable is usually as in London, Coningsby or Tonbridge (see Middle English handwriting preventing 'un' and 'um'); excludes a few such as Lonsdale