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CrazyUSA Sun 05-Jul-26 14:29:18

Bangor in Northern Ireland and Wales

Skye17 Sun 05-Jul-26 14:36:48

St Ives, Cornwall and St Ives, Cambridgeshire.

25Avalon Sun 05-Jul-26 14:36:52

Newport in Wales, Shropshire, Essex and I.O.W

25Avalon Sun 05-Jul-26 14:38:25

Gillingham in Dorset and Kent but pronounced differently

Casdon Sun 05-Jul-26 14:41:27

I’m going to New Quay in West Wales (not Newquay, Cornwall) next weekend,

Beechnut Sun 05-Jul-26 15:05:10

Lots of Little London’s

JamesandJon33 Sun 05-Jul-26 15:39:59

Abertridwr Caerphilly…Abertridwr Powys

OldFrill Sun 05-Jul-26 15:42:12

California, Norfolk

Magenta8 Sun 05-Jul-26 15:45:22

Birmingham, West Midlands UK - Birmingham, Alabama USA

Scribbles Sun 05-Jul-26 17:44:44

Jerusalem, Lincolnshire
Jerusalem, Israel

Beechnut Sun 05-Jul-26 19:37:46

Jericho Middle East
Jericho Oxford

Reading Berkshire
Reading Michigan

Grandmagrotbags Sun 05-Jul-26 19:41:48

Newburgh, Fife, Newburgh, Lancashire

seacliff Sun 05-Jul-26 19:42:05

Ipswich Queensland Australia
Ipswich Suffolk

Fradders Sun 05-Jul-26 19:44:09

Launceston Cornwall.

Launceston.Tasmania.

Cressida Sun 05-Jul-26 20:05:29

Boston, New York, Lincoln in Lincolnshire & USA
And there's a Grimsby in Canada.
Caister, Norfolk & Caistor, N.E. Lincolnshire.

Casdon Sun 05-Jul-26 20:15:48

On the subject of places starting with new, there is Newtown in Powys, and Newtown on the Isle of Wight - and probably more I don’t know of.

Magenta8 Sun 05-Jul-26 20:23:00

Perth - Scotland

Perth - Australia

Georgesgran Sun 05-Jul-26 20:31:35

Durham - North East England
Durham - North Carolina, USA

denbylover Sun 05-Jul-26 20:36:52

Christchurch - Dorset, England
Christchurch - Canterbury, NZ