Many places in America were named after locations in England because of the English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies. According to historians, British settlers in the US wanted to ...

A visitor to Britain can drop by New York (there’s even a takeout place called The Bronx), Philadelphia (named after ... England, was one of the first industrialized cities in the world.

The author of North East cookery book Stotty ’n’ Spice Cake has launched a competition to help him uncover local recipes named after regional towns and villages ... email er.books@northumbria.ac.uk or ...

Here are five places in New England named after actual locations from Austen’s life and books. The state was named after Hampshire county on the southern coast of England. Austen lived most of ...