Thought it could be interesting to see what places/words we have where the spelling and pronunciation differ 
Things like place names that are easily mangled and potentially other ‘localisms’.
There are the semi-obvious like Leicester, Gloucester and Towcester (Lester, Gloster and Toaster)… what else can we come up with?
So you mean wonderful places like
Ecclefechan - eh·kuhl·feh·kn
Bedworth is Bedurf haha
Darlington gets darlo
West cornforth gets doggy …. possibly from dog iron
coxhoe gets. Coxa.. unless your posh and say it properly
chester-le-street gets chester
Newcastle - toon
Althorpe pronounced Altrup or Althrup irritates me, as does Belvoir pronounced Beaver!
My o’h comes from a rural area in Northumberland, in the old days when people used to stop to ask directions, they used to have great fun with ‘spot the tourist’
A nearly village spelled Pauperhaugh is Pepperhalf, another spelled Ulgham is pronounced Uffem.
The main town of Alnwick is fairly famous, but don’t say the L or W or people laugh out loud apparently 
We had tourists saying they were going on to 10NA - Iona 
Leominster pronounced Lemster! 
Bicester , Worcester ( Bister , Wuster), I lived in the States and Worcestershire was a doozy I love listen to Americans butcher that one …
I admit that is the worst word for us Americans @BrokenEye ! But still Heyyyyyy!
Being dyslexic I am a terrible speller and with a midwestern accent it doesn’t help trying to spell as I pronounce words. I spent years spelling wash as warsh because that is the way I grew up pronouncing the word.
There are quite a lot of Scottish place names that derive from Gaelic. Milngavie, Kirkcudbright, Berwick, Dumfries, Strathaven etc.
Also anything with Cockburn in it.
Featherstonhaugh is pronounced Fanshaw, chew on that one 
No thanks!
Correct.