Thanks Rootschat

[Andrew Tarr]

Many people have probably done a double take at first seeing part of north Liverpool described on census records as Scotland

Or on a slightly more mundane note, part of east Manchester as Bradford.

[CarolA3]

Jericho and Mesopotamia are both in Oxford, England.

Carol

[kiwihalfpint]

There is also New Zealand in Wiltshire, England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand,_Wiltshire

Came across that by accident when helping someone on a thread a few years ago.


Cheers
KHP

[andrewalston]

I grew up knowing that New York was just past Deane church on the way out of Bolton.

Of course not everyone believes that there can be two places with the same name. One of my relatives was put down in the 1861 census as being from Halifax, Yorkshire. It was really Halifax, Nova Scotia!

There's always a surreal quality about seeing signposts to places abroad which have the same names as those at home. Newcastle, Hexham and West Wallsend are near neighbours in New South Wales as well as north east England, but when the distance sign also mentions a place with an aboriginal name...

[Andrew Tarr]

EDIT  -  Just look at a decent map of Massachusetts around Boston.  Littered with English place-names all in completely unfamiliar arrangement !

[Geoff-E]

Jerusalem and New York in Lincs

[Treetotal]

There is a Hull in Massachusetts and a Halifax in Nova Scotia.
Carol

[larkspur]

Wales, near Rotherham, Yorkshire
Rhodesia, Nottinghamshire.( Named after a MR Rhodes)

[*Sandra*]

Locations in the United States with an English name - Index by State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_in_the_United_States_with_an_English_name

Sandra