UK places with well known foreign place names

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PitPony
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UK places with well known foreign place names

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New York to Boston is an easy ride ( both in Lincs.)
I’m also aware of
New York ...Tyneside
Washington ...Sunderland, W.Sussex
Moscow ...E.Ayrshire
Alexandria ...W.Dunbartonshire
Melbourne...Derbys., E.Yorks.
Quebec ...Durham

Any more ?
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cycleruk
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London - Paris.
You'll never know if you don't try it.
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This one will run and run...

California, Norfolk always make me smile.

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Waterloo, North Lanarkshire. The name presumably dating from sometime after 1815.
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Yes, there's a lot of those.

As opposed to Portaloo, Kent. There's going to be a lot those too, although probably not enough:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... of-england

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How big to qualify?
Quebec, West Sussex is about 2 houses big.
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Nazareth.
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Post by backnotes »

There's an area of Ipswich in Suffolk that's called California, as it was developed around the time of the 1851 gold rush.

The Route 66 bus motors west into Ipswich along a route that passes through California. Someone at the bus company was obviously a Chuck Berry fan.
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The number of places abroad, with British place names is bordering on endless.

There are fewer well-known foreign place names in the UK. When I had an ice-cream round in Bradford there were places out towards Haworth called Egypt and Moscow but neither seems to be on google Earth
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There is a California near Falkirk out near Slamanan
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California on the Bath road from the M4 .....

California means Mill Stream in England ....
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Be more Mike.
The road goes on forever.
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New England is just south-east of Haverhill, on the border between Essex and Suffolk.
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If you travel on the A46 North of Bath you go through, Pennsylvannia, Petty France and Dunkirk.
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landsurfer wrote:California means Mill Stream in England ....

The derivation is disputed, but I've never seen that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_name_California
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/California

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There's a sign on the A30 in Cornwall that reads
Helland Bodmin. If I was the sign writer I would have been tempted to leave a space between the l and the a.
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