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.

[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.)