Names of places that are the same as another place.

[superchamp]

AFAIK there's only one Swindon. Thank fuck.

[DastardlyDick]

Where?

One is near Burnham Beeches, and the other is near Stone

[daviemac]

You are not to be outdone Davie are you? What was the gradient/variance at Roker.
I haven't got that copy of "Shoot" magazine

Never had an interest in Roker Park, didn't even know there was a slope? 

Newcastle have just spent £10m on a new pitch but the north to south slope is still there with the team preferring to play 'down the hill' in the second half.

[mancsguy1975]

Newport: Wales, Isle of Wight, Shropshire, Essex, and Pembrokeshire
Bangor: Wales and Northern Ireland
Hillsborough: Sheffield and County Down
Whitchurch: Shropshire, Hampshire, Cardiff, and Bristol
Preston: Lancashire, Brighton, Dorset, and Kent
Newcastle: Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and Newcastle in County Down
Richmond: London and North Yorkshire
Ripley: Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Surrey
Rochester: Kent and Northumberland
Ashford: Kent and Surrey
Alton: Hampshire and Staffordshire
Stanley: County Durham, West Yorkshire, and Perthshire
Eccles: Greater Manchester, Kent, Norfolk, and the Scottish Borders
Clifton: Bristol, Nottingham, and Manchester
Cambridge: Cambridgeshire and a village in Gloucestershire
Warwick: Warwickshire and a village near Carlisle

[mr.bluesky]

Christchurch -Dorset
Christchurch- New Zealand
Canterbury - Kent
Canterbury- New Zealand

[puntingking]

Southend - Essex
Southend - Oxfordshire
Southend - Berkshire
Southend - Hamshire
Southend - Scotland
Southend - Canada
Southend - Queensland, Australia

[Nomerzypuntr]

Bangor - North Wales, Northern Ireland
Kensington - Liverpool, West London
Royal Albert Dock - Liverpool, London City Airport
Walton and Everton have multiples here in UK


Crosby - Merseyside, Texas (USA)
Runcorn - Cheshire, Brisbane (Aus)
Warrington - Cheshire, US


Chester :
 Manchester (Greater Manchester)
 Winchester (Hampshire)
 Colchester (Essex)
 Chichester (West Sussex)
 Chesterfield (Derbyshire)
 Rochester (Kent)
 Dorchester (Dorset)
 Godmanchester (Cambridgeshire)
 Ilchester (Somerset)
 Ribchester (Lancashire)

Caster :
 Lancaster (Lancashire)
 Doncaster (South Yorkshire)
 Tadcaster (North Yorkshire)
 Ancaster (Lincolnshire)
 Muncaster (Cumbria)
 Caistor (Lincolnshire)
 Caistor St Edmund (Norfolk)

Cester :
 Gloucester (Gloucestershire)
 Worcester (Worcestershire)
 Leicester (Leicestershire)
 Bicester (Oxfordshire)
 Cirencester (Gloucestershire)
 Alcester (Warwickshire)
 Towcester (Northamptonshire)

[Snipper]

Sawley - Ripon
Sawley - Clitheroe. (The latter should be twinned with Scunthorpe)

Many places names in West Yorkshire ending "ley", which means a clearing in woodland.

Several places names in Northumberland which are sufficiently similar to cause confusion.
Tritlington and Titlington.
Ellingham, Eglingham and Edlingham which, to confuse visitors even more, are pronounced with a "j" unlike the Ellinghams in Norfolk and Hampshire.
There is also a Bradford and and Bolton.
Warkworths near Morpeth and Auckland NZ

Slightly off topic perhaps but Puntland is the name of a travel agent in East London and an uninviting region of Somalia.

[daviemac]

Warkworths near Morpeth and Auckland NZ

Take no notice of Google maps or postcodes mate, Warkworth's nearly 20 miles away from Morpeth.   

[timsussex]

Take no notice of Google maps or postcodes mate, Warkworth's nearly 20 miles away from Morpeth.   

to be fair there isnt a lot of human habitation nearby - reminds me of the Yank whose hire car broke down in that area of Northumberland and reported to the AA that he was about 300 miles north of London

[daviemac]

to be fair there isnt a lot of human habitation nearby - reminds me of the Yank whose hire car broke down in that area of Northumberland and reported to the AA that he was about 300 miles north of London

Got some nice coastal villages though, Amble, Cresswell  and the like we won't mention Lynemouth though, the eat their young there. 

[Snipper]

Good point dm.I should have described Warkworth as being next to Amble. Mint places both.

Lynemouth makes Ashington seem welcoming and up - market.

[timsussex]

Got some nice coastal villages though, Amble, Cresswell  and the like we won't mention Lynemouth though, the eat their young there. 

Spent many Sunday afternoons  (65+ years ago) at Alnmouth where they allowed cars onto the Golf course links after the golfers had their morning and Craster to buy some fresh crabs

[puntingking]

There are almost 30 other places around the world with "london" as their name too. 

[foreverchanges]

There's a Toronto and Quebec in Co Durham and a New York in Tyne & Wear.

[Mr Garmin]

This could go on forever, there can't be many places in the world that don't have a doppelganger somewhere else*.  The Brits in particular had a habit of naming places they conquered/discovered/colonised after towns and cities back home.

Probably much more difficult to find places with unique names

*Excluding Asia and the far east

[Jock D]

Off the top of my head:
Hamilton -  Scotland - Canada - New Zealand - Australia.
Aberdeen - Scotland - USA - Canada.
Moscow - Scotland (village in East Ayrshire) - Russia.

[Darren101]

When I went to Sydney, Australia, I went around by train.  They have a lot of places with the same name as London place names which I thought was amusing.  They got Hyde Park, Haymarket, Waterloo, Kings Cross, Lewisham, Greenwich to name a few. This was in the CBD area (Central Business District).

They also got a Newcastle somewhere

[Snipper]

Londonderry is in North Yorkshire, between the A1 and RAF Leeming.

[Thephoenix]

When I went to Sydney, Australia, I went around by train.  They have a lot of places with the same name as London place names which I thought was amusing.  They got Hyde Park, Haymarket, Waterloo, Kings Cross, Lewisham, Greenwich to name a few. This was in the CBD area (Central Business District).

They also got a Newcastle somewhere

......and a Liverpool.

[Thephoenix]

As well as Brighton, there are a least 15 New Brightons across the world:

UK 5
USA 4
NZ 1
Aust 1
S Afr 2
Canada 2

[GCAS9]

Hayes, London Borough of Hillingdon (West London)
Hayes, London Borough of Bromley (South-East London)

New York, New York State, USA
New York, Lincolnshire
New York, Ukraine

Farnborough, Hampshire, with Farnborough Airport
Farnborough, Kent, with Biggin Hill airport nearby

[daviemac]

New York, New York State, USA
New York, Lincolnshire
New York, Ukraine

New York Tyne and Wear


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[Mr Garmin]

New York, New York, so good they named it 14 times.

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[Nomerzypuntr]

......and a Liverpool.

 

[GCAS9]

There's a couple of Twatts in the UK: one in Orkney and the other in Shetland

 

[mr.bluesky]

New York, New York, so good they named it 14 times.

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And it was originally called New Amsterdam 

[Stevelondon]

to be fair there isnt a lot of human habitation nearby - reminds me of the Yank whose hire car broke down in that area of Northumberland and reported to the AA that he was about 300 miles north of London

The AA lass asked what the problem was and he said the car was over heating.

The AA girl on the other end of the phone said “I didn’t ask ye where ya were pet”

You’d probably need to be a Geordie to know what am on aboot 😂

[timsussex]

And it was originally called New Amsterdam 

I suspect it had a name well before the Dutch arrived 

[sparkus]

There's a Northumberland Park in Tottneham and one up in Tyneside  The one in London is by all accounts (TikTok, so it must be true) the worst estate in London for crime (it's not nice but you do get a decent percentage of Latina brothels there, plus the new Spurs ground) and from a quick look now the one in Geordieland isn't much better. 

[Thephoenix]

I suspect it had a name well before the Dutch arrived 

It was originally called Manna-hatta by the local indigenous people. 

[maxxblue]

AFAIK there's only one Swindon. Thank fuck.

There's one in Australia