TRIVIA: Places in the UK with a namesake (or similar sounding place name) in mainland Europe

[WestCoast]

I used to spend time in a town called Herford in Germany, which looks and sound quite similar to Hereford in England.

 

[Calthrop]

I used to spend time in a town called Herford in Germany, which looks and sound quite similar to Hereford in England.

Off-topic for the thread; but Herford was once the hub of a rather charming metre-gauge electric light railway system (last section closed 1966).

 

[AY1975]

I used to spend time in a town called Herford in Germany, which looks and sound quite similar to Hereford in England.

Or Hertford (which is pronounced "Hartford", though, and there's also Hartford between Crewe and Liverpool).

 

[AY1975]

Tilbury, Essex and Tilburg, Netherlands.

 

[Halish Railway]

There’s the tram stops in Cologne called Heumarkt and Neumarkt.

 

[reb0118]

There is a Croy in Dunbartonshire (Det.) and in Vaud, Switzerland.

 

[Sad Sprinter]

Balham? There's one in France.

 

[John Hunt]

Surprised that Hollywood, Birmingham hasn't been mentioned yet.
(edit) scrub Hollywood

 

[CW2]

Peterborough = St Petersburg (Russia)
Troon = Torun (Poland)

 

[Jamesrob637]

Szentendre is St Andrew's in Magyar.

 

[John Hunt]

St Pauls (cathedral, London) and Sankt Pauli (district of Hamburg)

 

[Jamesrob637]

Temple is a station on both the London Underground and the Paris Métro.

 

[PaulMc7]

The most random one I can think of is the fact there's Blantyre in Scotland, Lanarkshire and then a Blantyre in Malawi

Also Hamilton just along from Blantyre in Scotland and then Hamilton in New Zealand

 

[Calthrop]

The most random one I can think of is the fact there's Blantyre in Scotland, Lanarkshire and then a Blantyre in Malawi

At the risk of being a "know-all": as I understand it, the Malawi Blantyre is named after the Scottish one: because of the latter's being the birthplace of David Livingstone the explorer and missionary -- who operated in those parts, and has since been a hero to many people thereabouts, of all races.

 

[Westcountryman]

I'm really surprised that no-one has mentioned Dresden, Stoke-on Trent, and the more well known one in Germany. My daughter once did a Dresden to Dresden band tour.

 

[Jamesrob637]

Porrentruy in Switzerland sounds vaguely like Coventry.