But one would hope that an MP would take care when researching a town in their constituency before they opened a community event there. Newport is one of the most common names found in Britain with at least 10 decent-sized towns sharing this name.
The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Burns Down! Mason, who specialises in compiling British trivia, adds: "Until mass communication and train travel, most people in Britain never moved more than six miles away from their home, so they had no knowledge of what was going on in other counties, which partly explains why there are so many place names that are repeated." they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. "We're guessing tourism isn't exactly booming in this unappetizingly-named town.We're all about omega-3s, but this is taking things a bit far.
Ah, the old Sat Nav excuse... St Ives in Cornwall, on the north coast of the county and just up the road from Land's End, is a sun-kissed tourist resort, with tremendous beaches and a branch of the Tate, which showcases much of the St Ives school of painting, including works by Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, who settled in the town. ")The United States is known as "the land of the free." To make matters even more confusing, St Ivo was Cornish. This week's top 10 was suggested by Citizen Sane, one of the great assumed identities of the internet, which allows people to be both anonymous and completely traceable. Ripley, North Yorkshire is such a rural idyll of unrequited niceness that chickens run around the village green, it has some of the best ice cream in England, sold from a twee little old-fashioned sweet shop. But honestly, "the land of the weirdly named" might be more accurate. According to this Wikipedia article, which derives its data from the US GEOnet database, the ten most popular city names, in order are: 1. Bacon Level! Victoria Road.
try again, the name must be uniquePlease Here’s a list of the UK’s 50 most popular street names. Founders of these cities must have liked the scenery around their location and realized that the name Greenville was already taken.Of the 26 Salems in the country, the one in Massachusetts is where the infamous Known for his work on US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, fourth president Being that Washington is tops, it's no surprise that George Cities with … Set your kid apart from the sea of Emmas and Aidans. Please Ingleton in North Yorkshire, not Ingleton in Co Durham New research from identity data intelligence specialists GBG has found that just 17 of the top 100 names are female, The Telegraph reports. There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts
The Dorset one would like to think itself as a cut above its Kent namesake, pronouncing its name with a hard first 'G', in contrast to the soft G in Kent. Bestlifeonline.com is part of the Meredith Health Group It just goes to show that weird town names are perhaps rooted in some basis of truth.Probably not a great place to live if you're trying to cut your car insurance payments.We never imagined the underworld would be so far north.We've got our minds on this Mississippi town and this Mississippi town on our minds.Lollipop and ice cream sales here are through the roof, or so we hear.This state, containing one of the few truly cool town names, sounds equal parts dangerous and adorable.Well, at least he got something out of his relationship with The part of the room with the bed/a town in New Hampshire.This town got so excited about the prospect of having the radio show of the same name aired from here that the town changed its name to make it happen.Apparently, Slapout's unusual name comes from the local store having low inventory, or being "slap out" of whatever customers wanted.This Oregon town (and one of the truly cool town names) is named after a river that—you guessed it—zigzags through the land.If this South Carolina town was going for something If you're looking for the opposite of the Big Easy, we may have found it with this funny town name.Yet another town named for a radio show, this town took the name of the store on A town that captured the United States' two greatest passions: patriotism and This is what happens when you let people name towns after a With a population of just about 1,000, we're guessing this Washington town isn't the all-night rave the name makes it out to be.We're going to go ahead and guess that Recluse residents aren't exactly the partying type.These states won't follow the White House's guidance.© 2020 Galvanized Media. High Street. In some ways it is not that surprising so many place names are similar, because quite a few owe their origins to first Celtic, then Norse and eventually Norman naming conventions. try again, the name must be uniquePlease
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