random geographic wondering

[castiron]

How many English cities/towns/other municipalities founded before 1775 do *not* have a U.S. city/town/other municipality named after them?

(I was originally going to ask about British cities, but I suspect there are a bunch of towns in Wales that do not have American namesakes.)

Comments

[legionseagle]

Dunno, but there ought to be at least one "Warton" given that the village in question (which is about ten miles from my home town of Lancaster, which has about *seven* US cities and towns named after it) is where one set of George Washington's ancestors come from and where, to note the fact, we named a pub after him ). The other lot of ancestors came from Washington, Tyne & Wear, via Essex.

[green_knight]

I don't know, but I just went past a turnoff for Boston this morning, and felt rather disillusioned.

[antisoppist]

*googles* Good heavens, you've got a Taunton in Massachusetts.

My major problem when searching online for things like hairdressers in Wellington, the other small local market town, is that they all turn out to be in New Zealand.

[castiron]

Huh, you may actually have one there. I find a Wharton (here in Texas, in fact), but so far, not a Warton.

(I'll have to send that link to my dad; one of his family lines links up with the Washington line, and George is a third or fourth cousin several times removed.)

[castiron]

Heh!

[castiron]

That'd be another exercise -- finding towns in New England that *aren't* named for UK cities (and don't have names derived from Native American languages).

Then there's Taunton Press, which is not anywhere near Taunton, MA (well, it's in Connecticut, so by US standards it's very close, but I don't think the publisher is named for either the US or UK city).

And yes, I can see that being a search challenge!