Place | Namesake | Notes |
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Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire | Abingdon, Maryland | [38] |
Acton, London | Acton, Maine | [10] |
Alton, Hampshire | Alton, New Hampshire | [10] |
Amesbury, Wiltshire | Amesbury, Massachusetts | [10] |
Great and Little Amwell, Hertfordshire | East Amwell Township, New Jersey | [9] |
Andover, Hampshire | Andover, Massachusetts | [10] |
Ashburnham, East Sussex | Ashburnham, Massachusetts | [9] |
Ashton | Ashton, South Dakota | [61] needs disambiguation |
Aston, Oxfordshire | Aston Township, Pennsylvania | |
Attleborough, Norfolk | Attleboro, Massachusetts | [10] |
Barnstaple, Devon | Barnstable, Massachusetts | [10] |
Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire | Barton, Maryland | [38] |
Bath, Somerset | Bath, Maine | [10] |
Battle, East Sussex | Battle, Maryland [142] | [38] |
Beddington, Greater London | Beddington, Maine | [88] |
Bedminster, Bristol | Bedminster, New Jersey | [82] |
Beenham, Berkshire | Beenham, New Mexico [143] | [40] |
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland | Berwick, Maine | [10] |
Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire | Beverly, Massachusetts | [10] |
Bexley, Greater London | Bexley, Ohio | [47] |
Bideford, Devon | Biddeford, Maine | [10] |
Billericay, Essex | Billerica, Massachusetts | [10] |
Birmingham, West Midlands | Birmingham, Alabama | [10] |
Birmingham, Iowa | |
Birmingham, Michigan | |
Birmingham, Missouri | |
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire | Blenheim, South Carolina | [9] |
Boothby, Lincolnshire | Boothbay, Maine | |
Boston, Lincolnshire | Boston, Massachusetts | There are several towns and cities named Boston in the US, but this is the only one named after the one in England. All the others were named after this city or a person named Boston. [10] |
Bowdon, Greater Manchester | Bowdon, North Dakota | [22] |
Boxford, Suffolk | Boxford, Massachusetts | [10] |
Bradford, West Yorkshire | Bradford, Massachusetts | [10] |
Braintree, Essex | Braintree, Massachusetts | [10] |
Brampton, Carlisle, Cumbria | Brampton, Michigan | [8] |
Brentford, Greater London | Branford, Connecticut | [10] |
Brentwood, Essex | Brentwood, California | [10] |
Brentwood, New Hampshire | |
Brentwood, New York | |
Bridgwater, Somerset | Bridgewater Township, New Jersey | [82] |
Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire | Burlington, New Jersey | [10] |
Brighton, East Sussex | Brighton, Alabama | [10] |
New Brighton, Pennsylvania | |
Brimfield, Herefordshire | Brimfield, Massachusetts | [9] |
Brinklow, Warwickshire | Brinklow, Maryland | [38] |
Bristol | Bristol, Tennessee | [10] |
Bristol, Indiana |
Bromley, Greater London | Bromley, Kentucky | [7] |
Broseley, Shropshire | Broseley, Missouri | [2] |
Brunswick (Hove), East Sussex | Brunswick, Missouri | [2] [72] |
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire | Buckingham, Pennsylvania | |
Bude, Cornwall | Bude, Mississippi | |
Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire | Burton, Illinois | [19] |
Bury, Greater Manchester | Woodbury, New Jersey | |
Buxton, Norfolk | Buxton, Maine | [88] |
Calne, Wiltshire | Caln Township, Pennsylvania | [55] : 331 |
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire | Cambridge, Massachusetts | [10] |
Canterbury, Kent | Canterbury, Connecticut | [10] |
Carlisle, Cumbria | Carlisle, Pennsylvania | [10] |
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire | Chalfont, Pennsylvania | [55] : 307 |
Chatham, Kent | Chatham, Massachusetts | |
Chatsworth, Derbyshire | Chatsworth, Illinois | [19] |
Chelmsford, Essex | Chelmsford, Massachusetts | [10] |
Chelsea, London | Chelsea, Massachusetts | [10] |
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire | Cheltenham, Maryland | |
Chester, Cheshire | Chester, Illinois | [19] |
Chesterfield, Derbyshire | Chesterfield Township, New Jersey | [82] |
Chichester, West Sussex | Upper Chichester Township, Pennsylvania | [55] : 331 |
Chilham/Chilham Castle, Kent | Chillum, Maryland | [38] |
Chilmark, Wiltshire | Chilmark, Massachusetts | [10] |
Chipping Barnet, Greater London | Barnet, Vermont | [10] |
Claremont (country house), Surrey | Claremont, Virginia | [93] : 200 |
Clifton, Bristol | Clifton, North Dakota [144] | [22] |
Coalville, Leicestershire | Coalville, Utah | [60] |
Cobham, Surrey | Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia | [93] : 25 |
Colchester, Essex | Colchester, Connecticut | [10] |
Coventry, West Midlands | Coventry, Connecticut | [10] |
Crewe, Cheshire | Crewe, Virginia | [93] : 152 |
Croydon, Greater London | Croydon, New Hampshire | [10] |
Danbury, Essex | Danbury, Connecticut | [10] |
Danby, North Yorkshire | Danby, Vermont | [10] |
Darlington, County Durham | Darlington, Indiana | [15] |
Dartmouth, Devon | Dartmouth, Massachusetts | [10] |
Deal, Kent | Deal, New Jersey | [10] |
Dedham, Essex | Dedham, Massachusetts | [10] |
Deptford, Greater London | Deptford Township, New Jersey | [10] |
Derby, Derbyshire | Derby, Connecticut | [10] |
Dorchester, Dorset | Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts | [10] |
Dover, Kent | Dover, Delaware | [10] |
Dover, New Jersey | |
Dunstable, Bedfordshire | Dunstable, Massachusetts | [10] |
Durham, County Durham | Durham, Connecticut | [10] |
Duxbury Hall, Lancashire | Duxbury, Massachusetts | [9] |
East Ardsley, West Yorkshire | Ardsley, New York | [57] |
Easton Neston, Northamptonshire | Easton, Pennsylvania | [55] : 47 |
Easton, Massachusetts | |
East Raynham, Norfolk | Raynham, Massachusetts | |
Edgeley, Greater Manchester | Edgeley, North Dakota | [22] |
Edgmond, Shropshire | Edgmont Township, Pennsylvania | [55] : 331 |
Enfield Town, Greater London | Enfield, Connecticut | |
Epping, Essex | Epping, New Hampshire | [10] |
Epsom, Surrey | Epsom, New Hampshire | [10] |
Epworth, Lincolnshire | Epworth, Iowa | [49] |
Eton, Berkshire | Eton, Georgia | [3] |
Evesham, Worcestershire | Evesham Township, New Jersey | [82] |
Exeter, Devon | Exeter, New Hampshire | [10] |
Falmouth, Cornwall | Falmouth, Massachusetts | |
Farmington, Gloucestershire | Farmington, Connecticut | [10] |
Farnham, Surrey | Farnham, Virginia | [93] : 173 |
Foxhall, Suffolk | Foxton, Colorado | [39] |
Framlingham, Suffolk | Framingham, Massachusetts | [10] |
Glastonbury, Somerset | Glastonbury, Connecticut | [10] |
Gloucester, Gloucestershire | Gloucester, Massachusetts | [10] |
Gravesend, Kent | Gravesend, New York | [57] see also 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands |
Great Barrington, Gloucestershire | Great Barrington, Massachusetts | |
Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire | Wilbraham, Massachusetts | |
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk | Yarmouth, Massachusetts | [10] |
Greenwich, Greater London | Greenwich, Connecticut | [10] |
Groton, Suffolk | Groton, Massachusetts | [8] |
Guildford, Surrey | Guilford, Connecticut | [10] |
Much Hadham and Little Hadham, Hertfordshire | Haddam, Connecticut | [9] |
Hadleigh, Suffolk | Hadley, Massachusetts | |
Halifax, West Yorkshire | Halifax, Massachusetts | |
Hampstead, Greater London | Hampstead, New Hampshire | [10] |
Hampton, London | Hampton, New Hampshire | [10] |
Harpswell, Lincolnshire | Harpswell, Maine | [10] |
Harrogate, North Yorkshire | Harrogate, Tennessee | [9] |
Harwich, Essex | Harwich Port, Massachusetts | [10] |
Hastings, East Sussex | Hastings-on-Hudson, New York | [57] |
Hatfield, Hertfordshire | Hatfield, Massachusetts | [10] needs disambiguation |
Haverhill, Suffolk | Haverhill, Massachusetts | [10] |
Haworth, West Yorkshire | Haworth, New Jersey | [82] |
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire | Hempstead, New York | [10] |
Hereford, Herefordshire | Hereford, South Dakota | [61] named for the breed of cattle, which originated in Herefordshire |
Hertford, Hertfordshire | Hartford, Connecticut | [10] |
Highgate, Greater London | Highgate, Vermont | [10] |
Hillington, Norfolk | Hillington, Wisconsin | neighborhood in Madison, Wisconsin [23] |
Hingham, Norfolk | Hingham, Massachusetts | [10] |
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire | Huntingdon, Pennsylvania | |
Ilchester, Somerset | Ilchester, Maryland | [38] |
Ipswich, Suffolk | Ipswich, Massachusetts | [10] |
Islip, Northamptonshire | Islip, New York | [10] |
Kennett, Cambridgeshire | Kennett Square, Pennsylvania | [10] |
Kenilworth, Warwickshire | Killingworth, Connecticut | |
Kensington, Greater London | Kensington, Maryland | |
Keswick, Cumbria | Keswick, California | [10] |
Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire | Kimbolton, Ohio | [10] |
King's Lynn, Norfolk | Lynn, Massachusetts | [10] |
Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire | Hull, Massachusetts | [10] |
Lancaster, Lancashire | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | [10] |
Langley, Berkshire | Langley, South Carolina | [19] |
Laxton, Nottinghamshire | Lexington, Massachusetts | [10] |
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire | Leamington, Utah | [60] |
Leeds, West Yorkshire | Leeds, Alabama | [10] |
Leominster, Herefordshire | Leominster, Massachusetts | [10] |
Lewes, East Sussex | Lewes, Delaware | [77] |
Limington, Somerset | Limington, Maine | [88] |
Lincoln, Lincolnshire | Lincoln, Massachusetts | [10] |
Lichfield, Staffordshire | Litchfield, Connecticut | [10] |
Liverpool, Merseyside | Liverpool, New York | [10] |
London | New London, Connecticut | |
London, Kentucky | [10] |
New London, Missouri | |
New London, Wisconsin | |
Longton, Staffordshire | Longton, Kansas | [31] |
Ludlow, Shropshire | Ludlow, Massachusetts | [10] |
Lyme Regis, Dorset | Lyme, Connecticut | [10] |
Maidstone, Kent | Maidstone, Vermont | [10] |
Maldon, Essex | Malden, Massachusetts | [10] |
Malvern, Worcestershire | Malverne, New York | |
Malvern Hill, Virginia | Site of The Battle of Malvern Hill, an American Civil war battle |
Malvern, Pennsylvania | |
Manchester | North Manchester, Indiana | |
Manchester, Missouri | |
Manchester, New Hampshire | [10] |
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire | Mansfield Township, New Jersey | [82] |
Margate, Kent | Margate City, New Jersey | [82] |
Marlborough, Wiltshire | Marlborough, Massachusetts | [10] |
Marlow, Buckinghamshire | Marlow, New Hampshire | [10] |
Matfield, Kent | Matfield Green, Kansas | [31] |
Matlock, Derbyshire | Matlock, Iowa | [49] |
Mendham, Suffolk | Mendon, Massachusetts | [10] |
Meriden, West Midlands | Meriden, Connecticut | |
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire | Middlesboro, Kentucky | [7] |
Middlesex, London | West Middlesex, Pennsylvania | |
Milford | Milford, Connecticut | [10] needs disambiguation |
Modbury, Devon | Madbury, New Hampshire | |
Needham Market, Suffolk | Needham, Massachusetts | [10] |
Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire | Winchendon, Massachusetts | |
Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire | Newark, New Jersey | [10] |
Newbury, Berkshire | Newbury, Massachusetts | [10] |
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear | Newcastle, Texas | [10] |
New Castle, Pennsylvania | |
Newmarket, Suffolk | Newmarket, New Hampshire | [10] |
Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire | Newstead, New York | |
Northampton, Northamptonshire | Northampton, Massachusetts | [10] |
Norton, Oxfordshire | Norton, Massachusetts | [10] needs disambiguation |
Norwich, Norfolk | Norwich, Connecticut | [10] |
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | Nottingham, New Jersey | |
Oakham, Rutland | Oakham, Massachusetts | [10] |
Oldham, Greater Manchester | Oldham, South Dakota | [61] |
Olney, Buckinghamshire | Olney, Maryland | [38] |
Oxford, Oxfordshire | Oxford, Mississippi | [145] |
Oxford, Ohio | [47] |
Penn, Buckinghamshire | Penn, North Dakota | [22] |
Petersham, London | Petersham, Massachusetts | [9] |
Plaistow | Plaistow, New Hampshire | needs disambiguation [9] |
Plymouth, Devon | Plymouth, Massachusetts | [10] |
Plymouth, Indiana |
Plymouth, Minnesota |
Pontefract, West Yorkshire | Pomfret, Connecticut | [10] |
Portsmouth, Hampshire | Portsmouth, Virginia | [10] |
Preston, Lancashire | Preston, Connecticut | |
Raynham, Norfolk | Raynham, Massachusetts | |
Reading, Berkshire | Reading, Pennsylvania | [10] |
Reigate, Surrey | Ryegate, Vermont | [9] |
Reydon, Suffolk | Reydon, Oklahoma | [84] |
Richmond, London | Richmond, Virginia | [93] : 227 |
Ridley, Cheshire | Ridley Park, Pennsylvania | [10] |
Ripon, North Yorkshire | Ripon, Wisconsin | [10] |
Rochdale, Greater Manchester | Rochdale Village, Queens New York | [57] |
Rochester, Kent | Rochester, Massachusetts | [10] |
Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire | Rowley, Massachusetts | [10] |
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent | Tunbridge, North Dakota [146] | [22] |
Rugby, Warwickshire | Rugby, North Dakota | [9] |
Runnymede, Surrey | Runnymede, Kansas | [31] |
Ryde, Isle of Wight | Ryde, California | [9] |
Rye, East Sussex | Rye, New Hampshire | [10] |
St Albans, Hertfordshire | St. Albans, Vermont | |
Salisbury, Wiltshire | Salisbury, Maryland | [38] |
Sandown, Isle of Wight | Sandown, New Hampshire | |
Sandwich, Kent | Sandwich, Massachusetts | [10] |
Scarborough, North Yorkshire | Scarborough, Maine | [10] |
Shadwell, Greater London | Shadwell, Virginia | |
Sheffield, South Yorkshire | Sheffield, Massachusetts | [10] |
Shrewsbury, Shropshire | Shrewsbury, Massachusetts | [10] |
Skelton | Skelton, West Virginia | [81] needs disambiguation |
Smithfield, London | Smithfield, Rhode Island | |
Somerset | Somerset County, Pennsylvania | |
Sotterley, Suffolk | Sotterley (Hollywood, Maryland) | [38] |
Southampton, Hampshire | Southampton, New York | [10] |
South Norwood, Greater London | Norwood, Massachusetts | [10] |
Southwark, London | Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | [55] : 33 |
Springfield, Essex | Springfield, Massachusetts | [10] |
Stamford, Lincolnshire | Stamford, Connecticut | |
Staplehurst, Kent | Staplehurst, Nebraska | [34] |
Stockbridge, Hampshire | Stockbridge, Massachusetts | [10] |
Stockport, Greater Manchester | Stockport, Ohio | [10] |
Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham | Stockton Springs, Maine | [88] |
Stourbridge, West Midlands | Sturbridge, Massachusetts | [10] |
Stow | Stow, Massachusetts | needs disambiguation [9] |
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire | Stratford, Connecticut | |
Sudbury, Suffolk | Sudbury, Massachusetts | [10] |
Sunbury-on-Thames, Greater London | Sunbury, Pennsylvania | [55] : 49 |
Sutton Scarsdale, Derbyshire | Scarsdale, New York | [10] |
Taunton, Somerset | Taunton, Massachusetts | [10] |
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire | Tewksbury, Massachusetts | [10] |
Thornbury, Gloucestershire | Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania | [55] : 331 |
Teignmouth, Devon | Tinmouth, Vermont | [9] |
Tisbury, Wiltshire | Tisbury, Massachusetts | [10] |
Tolland, Somerset | Tolland, Connecticut | [10] |
Toppesfield, Essex | Topsfield, Massachusetts | [10] |
Topsham, Devon | Topsham, Maine | [10] |
Trafford, Greater Manchester | Trafford, Pennsylvania | [147] |
Truro, Cornwall | Truro, Massachusetts | [10] |
Turton, Lancashire | Turton, South Dakota | [61] |
Ventnor, Isle of Wight | Ventnor City, New Jersey | [82] |
Wakefield, West Yorkshire | Wakefield, New Hampshire | |
Wallingford, Oxfordshire | Wallingford, Pennsylvania | [9] |
Wantage, Oxfordshire | Wantage Township, New Jersey | [82] |
Wareham, Dorset | Wareham, Massachusetts | [10] |
Warminster, Wiltshire | Warminster, Pennsylvania | |
Warwick, Warwickshire | Warwick, Pennsylvania | [55] : 244 |
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire | Willingboro Township, New Jersey | [82] |
Wells, Somerset | Wells, Maine | [10] |
Wenham Magna, Suffolk | Wenham, Massachusetts | [10] |
Westminster, Greater London | Westminster, California | [5] named for the Westminster Assembly |
Weymouth, Dorset | Weymouth, Massachusetts | [10] |
Wickford, Essex | Wickford, Rhode Island | |
Willoughby, Lincolnshire | Williba, Kentucky | [7] |
Wilmington, Kent | New Wilmington, Pennsylvania | |
Wilmington, North Carolina | [148] |
Wilton, Wiltshire | Wilton, New Hampshire | [10] |
Wimbledon, London | Wimbledon, North Dakota | [22] |
Winchester, Hampshire | Winchester, Virginia | [93] : 89 |
Windsor, Berkshire | Windsor, Maine | [10] |
Woburn, Bedfordshire | Woburn, Massachusetts | [9] |
Woodstock, Oxfordshire | Woodstock, Alabama | [106] |
Woolwich, London | Woolwich, Maine | [10] |
Worcester, Worcestershire | Worcester, Massachusetts | [10] |
Wrentham, Suffolk | Wrentham, Massachusetts | [10] |
Wylam, Northumberland | Wylam, Alabama | neighbourhood of Birmingham, AL, also named after a place in England [9] |
Wymondham, Norfolk | Windham, Maine | [88] |
York, North Yorkshire | York, Pennsylvania | |