Names of places that are the same as another place.

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Newcastle - North East England
Newcastle - Northern Ireland

Rainham - Kent
Rainham - East London/Essex

Paris - France
Paris - Texas, USA

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California, Birmingham and California USA

Hollywood, near Birmingham and Hollywood USA

Shirley, Solihull and Shirley, Southampton

West Heath, Birmingham and West Heath, Congleton

[mr.bluesky]

Boston- Lincolnshire
Boston - Massachusetts
Newcastle - tyne and wear
Newcastle- New South Wales
Birmingham- West Midlands
Birmingham - Alabama
Newport - Gwent
Newport- Rhode Island
Plymouth - Devon
Plymouth - Massachusetts
Windsor- near London
Windsor- Connecticut
Kingston- Ontario
Kingston- Jamaica
Kingston upon Thames UK
Aberdeen- Scotland
Aberdeen harbour - Hong Kong
Manchester- North West England
Manchester- New Hampshire
A lot of settlements in the USA and Commonwealth countries named after their English counterparts

There must be hundreds of places that share the same name, thats just the ones I can think off. 

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Perth, Australia
Perth, Scotland
Perth, Canada
Washington, USA
Washington, Tyne and Wear

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Just thought of another very obvious one.

Leeds, Yorkshire
Leeds, Kent

Can't believe I didn't say that one first.

[WASA38]

Reading these brings to my mind a telephone call made onks years ago by a work colleague via a telephone operator  (who remembers those ?). We were visiting a customer in Gloucester and he needed to ring his wife back in East Anglia. When he declared his wish to make a call to a Cambridge number the operator asked in lovely soft west country brogue, 'Would that be Cambridge, Cambridgeshire or Cambridge, Gloucestershire dear ?'.

[daviemac]

Newcastle - North East England
Newcastle - Northern Ireland

There's over 100 places called Newcastle worldwide including multiples in. -

England
Ireland
Wales
Australia
Canada
Jamaica
St Kitts
South Africa
USA.

[timsussex]

Didnt Joe Lycett just do a road trip to all the Birminghams in USa ?

These things only cause trouble if they are close together eg Ashford in Kent or the one in Middlesex so they are in the same punting region

Anyone who has worked in the NHS will know the old adage that its not the Smiths or Jones that get confused because people are careful, its the unusual ones

Another  example  is High street  just about every town has one, so people are careful to get the right one; but not far from me there are two entirely different Clovelly Rds about 2 miles apart  - not linked, two different towns in fact two different counties  The problem is one is a narrow leafy road with expensive houses the other is an industrial estate The former does not appreciate the artic drivers driving up and down looking for a factory

[timsussex]

There's over 100 places called Newcastle worldwide including multiples in. -

England
Ireland
Wales
Australia
Canada
Jamaica
St Kitts
South Africa
USA.

but do they all have crap football teams 

back in the day when we had a real summer break so Vernons & Littlewoods ran Aussie football pools to fill the gap my father always selected Newcastle

[RandomGuy99]

There's over 100 places called Newcastle worldwide including multiples in. -

England
Ireland
Wales
Australia
Canada
Jamaica
St Kitts
South Africa
USA.

Possibly because people who left the UK settled all round the world.

Manchester, England
Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

Hampshire, England
New Hampshire, USA

Essex county, England
Essex county, Massachusetts

Shrewsbury, England
Shrewsbury, MA, USA

Worcester, England
Worcester, MA, USA

Plymouth, England
Plymouth, MA, USA

England
New England, USA

[Bertiebeenthere]

California, Derbyshire, UK
Dunquerque, Cheshire, UK
Brighton, Barbados,
Brighton, Cornwall, UK
Melbourne, Leicestershire, UK
London, Ontario, actually on the River Thames

[PilotMan]

It's the ones that are in close proximity to each other that create problems.

There are two Molehill Greens in Essex, they're just 9 miles apart or 20 mins in a car.

Or that sound the same, but are spelt different.

Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells in Kent that are just a few miles apart.

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From memory
Purley, Surrey
Purley, Reading

Worlds End, London
Worlds End, Berkshire
Worlds End, Hampshire
Worlds End, Suffolk


I found a database of them
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[mr.bluesky]

Stratford London
Stratford ( upon Avon) Warwickshire.

[RandomGuy99]

Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells in Kent that are just a few miles apart.

Until 1870, the town's name was spelt Tunbridge, as shown on old maps including the 1871 Ordnance Survey map and contemporary issues of the Bradshaw railway guide. In 1870, this was changed to Tonbridge by the GPO[4] due to confusion with nearby Tunbridge Wells, despite Tonbridge being a much older settlement. Tunbridge Wells has always maintained the same spelling

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Perth, Australia
Perth, Scotland
Perth, Canada

How did I forget about Perth, that was an obvious one that I obviously mistakenly missed.
Although, I was not aware that there is a Perth in Canada.

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There's over 100 places called Newcastle worldwide including multiples in. -

England
Ireland
Wales
Australia
Canada
Jamaica
St Kitts
South Africa
USA.

I did not know that. 

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but do they all have crap football teams 

back in the day when we had a real summer break so Vernons & Littlewoods ran Aussie football pools to fill the gap my father always selected Newcastle

Maybe they all should come together for a bit of fun and do a Newcastle football competition 

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Stratford London
Stratford ( upon Avon) Warwickshire.

One is home to the London Stadium and one is the birthplace of William Shakespeare. 

[mr.bluesky]

One is home to the London Stadium and one is the birthplace of William Shakespeare. 

I've been to both  although I prefer the latter

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This thread is God's gift to pedants and insomniacs.

But well done & thank you!

[mr.bluesky]

This thread is God's gift to pedants and insomniacs.

But well done & thank you!

This is bound to pop up in future pub quiz's 

[timsussex]

Did you know that 2 football league clubs have St James Park as their home stadium ?

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This is bound to pop up in future pub quiz's 

With apologies to pedants
It's, quizzes.
I'm sorry but got my coat before I posted this!

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Did you know that 2 football league clubs have St James Park as their home stadium ?

You've started something here

Exeter and 'Sunderland'?

[webpunter]

Didnt Joe Lycett just do a road trip to all the Birminghams in USa ?

Yep
Worth a watch
It was hilarious the 'yanks' especially in the midwest didn't know what to make of him

[mr.bluesky]

Did you know that 2 football league clubs have St James Park as their home stadium ?

Did you know there are two football teams called " the magpies"
Newcastle and Notts County, I think it because of their black and white kit 

[mr.bluesky]

You've started something here

Exeter and 'Sunderland'?

Exeter and Newcastle, Sunderland play in the stadium of light , a name pinched from Benfica's stadium 

[timsussex]

You've started something here

Exeter and 'Sunderland'?

now YOU are trying to start something !

[Munter84]

There's plenty of place name oddities

Hampton (Greater London) isn't central to Northampton and Southampton. Easthampton manages to be West of both of those, and Westhampton? That's so far West that it's in the USA.

The Saxons gave us Middlesex, Wessex, Sussex and Essex, but apparently never travelled North. Where's Nosex? At home with the missus, but that's something different.

Walkers may be familiar with the North Downs, which always struck me as contradictory on at least a couple of levels. North is "up" on a map, and they're bloody great hills, they're at LEAST as many ups as they are downs!

[toon972]

Maybe they all should come together for a bit of fun and do a Newcastle football competition 

Newcastle might win. 

[mr.bluesky]

There's plenty of place name oddities

Hampton (Greater London) isn't central to Northampton and Southampton. Easthampton manages to be West of both of those, and Westhampton? That's so far West that it's in the USA.

The Saxons gave us Middlesex, Wessex, Sussex and Essex, but apparently never travelled North. Where's Nosex? At home with the missus, but that's something different.

Walkers may be familiar with the North Downs, which always struck me as contradictory on at least a couple of levels. North is "up" on a map, and they're bloody great hills, they're at LEAST as many ups as they are downs!

Northampton isn't in the north and Southport isn't in the south 

[timsussex]

North of Chichester there are a set of villages

North Marden, East Marden, West Marden 

and of course

Up Marden,!

[PilotMan]

Hampton (Greater London) isn't central to Northampton and Southampton. Easthampton manages to be West of both of those, and Westhampton? That's so far West that it's in the USA.

So where does Wolverhampton fit in?

[daviemac]

Did you know that 2 football league clubs have St James Park as their home stadium ?

Newcastle and Exeter.

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Exeter and Newcastle, Sunderland play in the stadium of light , a name pinched from Benfica's stadium 

Why do you think I put Sunderland in speech marks?

Funny that and there was me thinking Sunderland play at Roker park on the hillside!

[mr.bluesky]

Why do you think I put Sunderland in speech marks?

Funny that and there was me thinking Sunderland play at Roker park on the hillside!

Now your getting confused with "middlesbrough" 

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Now your getting confused with "middlesbrough" 

Never.

Still musing over the Throstles at the Hawthorns 

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Newcastle and Exeter.

It would be a bit confusing if when these two clubs play each other.

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Newcastle might win. 

 

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I've been to both  although I prefer the latter

 

[mr.bluesky]

Never.

Still musing over the Throstles at the Hawthorns 

I can't understand how the Hawtthorns is the highest ground above sea level in the country, it's not as though West Bromwich is a town built on top of a mountain 

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I can't understand how the Hawtthorns is the highest ground above sea level in the country, it's not as though West Bromwich is a town built on top of a mountain 

If walsall moved their ground to Barr beacon they could see all the way to the jurals
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[Vice Admiral]

Walkers may be familiar with the North Downs, which always struck me as contradictory on at least a couple of levels. North is "up" on a map, and they're bloody great hills, they're at LEAST as many ups as they are downs!

Curious as to why “ups” are indeed called “downs”, I asked Google AI.  Here is her answer:

The word "downs" (referring to rolling chalk hills like the South Downs) comes from the Old English word dūn, which means "hill" or "mountain".

The Old English dūn was borrowed from an older Celtic word (dun) that meant "hill fort," because ancient tribes often built their protective forts on high ground.

Despite sounding like the opposite of "up," the name has nothing to do with going downward. Over centuries, dūn shifted in pronunciation and spelling to "down," specifically coming to describe broad, elevated, treeless chalk downland.

The word is also closely related to modern sand "dunes", which share a similar rolling, elevated landform shape.

[daviemac]

Funny that and there was me thinking Sunderland play at Roker park on the hillside!

Newcastle's St James' Park has a slope on the pitch, the Gallowgate end is nearly a metre lower than the Leases end.

[Bertiebeenthere]

Did you know that 2 football league clubs have St James Park as their home stadium ?

Actually, one is St James Park and the other is St James' Park

[puntingking]

Only can men turn a non football related thread into a football related thread 

[DastardlyDick]

There are hamlets called Egypt and Gibraltar in Bckinghamshire.

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Where?

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Newcastle's St James' Park has a slope on the pitch, the Gallowgate end is nearly a metre lower than the Leases end.

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