A large number of places in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies.
Some names were carried over directly and are found throughout the country (such as Manchester, Birmingham and Rochester). Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, the largest city in the US, New York, was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II). Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic spelling of an English place (in this case Hertford).
Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the U.S., is named after the first U.S. President George Washington, whose surname was due to his family holding land in Washington, Tyne and Wear.
Alabama Ashford Avon Birmingham. Brent Brighton Chelsea Leeds"History", Leeds, Alabama website. Retrieved 2001-Jan-11. New London Oxford Sheffield Woodstock, Town of Woodstock, Alabama website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11. York Manchester
Alaska Sutton
Arizona Douglas Winslow
Arkansas Bradford Camden Chester Carlisle Dover England Everton Hampton Hartford Hatfield Haynes Lincoln (Named after Abraham Lincoln, whose last name originates from the city of Lincoln in England) London Melbourne Newark Newcastle Oxford Shirley
California BrentwoodGudde, Erwin and Bright, William. California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. University of California Press, 2004. Chatsworth Chester Exeter"History", City of Exeter website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11. Hollywood Kensington Lancasterl Manchester Newcastle Richmond Ryde Westminster Windsor
Colorado Arlington Avon Brighton Bristol Hereford Wellington Westminster Windsor
Connecticut
Andover Ashford Avon"Avon Facts in Brief", Avon, Connecticut website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11. Berkshire Bolton"Bolton History Summary", Bolton, Connecticut website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11. BristolNorton, Milo Leon. "Bristol", The Connecticut magazine: an illustrated monthly, Volume 5. The Connecticut Magazine Co., 1899, p.4 Canterbury Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Colchester"About Colchester", Colchester, Connecticut website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11. ColebrookEno, Joel N. "Connecticut Towns in the Order of their Establishment; with the Origin of Their Names", Connecticut State register and manual. Connecticut Secretary of State, Hartford, 1917, pp.422–427. Cornwall Coventry Danbury Derby Durham East Hampton East Windsor Easton Ellington Enfield Essex Farmington Glastonbury Granby Greenwich Guilford Hampton Hartford"City of Hartford History", City of Hartford website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-12. Kent Killingworth Litchfield Manchester Mansfield Marlborough Meriden Middlesex County Milford New Britain New London Newington Norfolk Norwich Oxford Plymouth Portland Preston Salisbury Stafford Stamford Stratford Tolland Torrington Wallingford Waterford Weston Westport Willington Wilton Winchester Windsor Windsor Locks Woodstock
Delaware Arden Camden Canterbury DoverCapace, Nancy. "Dictionary of Places", Encyclopedia of Delaware, North American Book Dist LLC, 2001, p.331. Harrington Kent County Lancashire Lewes Lincoln Middletown Milford Milton Newark Seaford Sussex County Townsend Warwick Wilmington
Florida
Acton Aldrige Alford Alton Amesbury Circle Amelia Island Andover Arlington Ashbourne Drive Ashbury Lane Avon Park Banbury Bath Lane Baxter Beauclerc Bedford Road Beechwood Berkshire Lakes Beresford Beverly Beach Birmingham Drive Bloxham Boston Street Brentwood Bridgewater Brighton Bay Bristol Buckingham Burlington Heights Burlington Oaks Caldwell Terrace Cambridge Road Camden Square Canterbury Carlisle Carlton, Pinellas County Carlton, St. Lucie County Charlotte Beach Charlotte County Charlotte Harbor Charlotte Park Charlotte Square Chatham Chelmsford Chelsea Chelsea Place Cheshire Drive Chester Chesterfield Heights Chichester Colchester Court Concord, Gadsden County Concord, Leon County Cornwall Cornwell Covington Park Crawford Cumberland Cuxham Drive Darlington Davenport Denham Derbyshire Road Derby Woods Devon Devonshire Dorset Dorchester Dover Dovercourt Lane Dunsford Terrace Durham Eastbrook Eastgate, Orange County Eastgate, Manatee County Eastgate, Sarasota County East Hill Effingham Road Essington Lane Essex Lane Essex Street Ewell Exeter Falmouth Faringdon Drive Faversham Circle Flamborough Drive Fordham Drive Fort Pierce Glastonbury Circle Gloucester Court Gotham Court Grantham Drive Greenacres Greenfield, Columbia County Greenfield, Duval County Greenfield, Pasco County Greenhead Greenwich Grimsby Lane Guilford Halifax River Hampshire Hampshire Hills Hampstead Lane Hampton Harpswell Drive Harrington Harrington Lake Harwich Circle Hastings Haverhill Hawkesbury Way Haynes Heathrow Hillsboro Beach Hillsborough County Hillsborough River Holly Hill Hollywood Horton Shores Huntington, Marion County Huntington, Putnam County Hutton Court Hyde Park Inglewood Inwood Kensington Park Kent Keswick Kingsford Kingsland Kingsley Plantation King Charles Circle King Edward Drive King George Estates King Henry Avenue King Henry Road King Richard Lane Kingston Lake George Lancaster Langdon Beach Lavenham Circle Layton Lexington Lincoln Liverpool Liverpool Island Lockwood, Levy County Lockwood, Orange County London Drive Longwood Lundy Lymington Circle Manchester Manchester Lakes Mansfield Heights Margate Marlborough Melbourne Middlesex Road Mulberry Newberry Newburn Newcastle New London Street Newmarket New River, Broward County Norfolk Street Northumberland Avenue Northwood, Alachua County Northwood, Palm Beach County Norwich Circle Notting Hill Nottingham Nottingham Street Oxford Parham Heights Pembridge Avenue PlymouthMorris, Allen Covington and Morris, Joan Perry. Florida Place Names: Alachua to Zolfo Springs. Pineapple Press Inc, 1995, p.198. Port Charlotte Portland Portsmouth Lane Prince Albert Court Prince John Lane Prince Michael Lane Queen Anne Boulevard Queen Anne Court Queen Anne Road Queen Elizabeth Court Queen Elizabeth Way Queen Victoria Avenue Queen Victoria Drive Queens Park Queensway Road Ramsey Beach Reading Road Richmond Ridgewood Royston Bend Riverdale Runnymede Rutland Salisbury Road Sandringham Road Saxton Scarborough Sheffield Circle Sherwood Forest Shrewsbury Lane Shrewsbury Road Somerset Southbank Southend Southgate Southminster Circle Southport Southside Springfield St. Catherine Staffordshire Drive Sudbury Lane Sunbury Drive Sunderland Road Suffolk Road Surrey Avenue Sussex Sussex Place Templeton Lane Tewkesbury Trace Thornbury Court Thornton Park Tilbury Court Tisbury Lane Upshire Path Uxbridge Lane Walsingham Warrington Warwick Hills Washington County Watergate Wellington Wembley Way Westbury Westchester Westminster Westmoreland Westside Whitby Road Wickham Park Winchester Estates WindermereMorris, Allen Covington and Morris, Joan Perry. Florida Place Names: Alachua to Zolfo Springs. Pineapple Press Inc, 1995, p.256. Windlesham Court Windsor, Alachua County Windsor, Indian River County Woodburn Woodstock Worthington Springs Victoria Park York Yorkshire
Georgia
Bainbridge Barwick Boston Chatsworth Claxton Covington Hull Manchester Mansfield Oxford Preston Putney Royston Warwick Washington Winchester
Hawaii Whitmore Village
Idaho New Plymouth
Illinois Birmingham Township Chester"A Bit of a Chester History Lesson", City of Chester website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-12. Chesterfield Colchester Cumberland County Enfield Hull Huntley Manchester Truro Township Winchester Woodstock
Indiana Avon Bedford Bristol Carlisle Cumberland Darlington Manchester Manchester Township New Carlisle New London Oxford Plymouth Washington Winchester Worthington
Iowa Abingdon Ackworth Alton Bedford BirminghamSavage, Tom. A dictionary of Iowa place-names. University of Iowa Press, 2007. Brighton Cambridge Carlisle Chatsworth Chelsea Cumberland Derby Dorchester Epworth Essex Hampton Hull Keswick Leeds Manchester Matlock New London Otley Oxford Radcliffe Sheffield Stockport Washington Waterloo
Kansas Alton Bentley Berwick Buxton Clayton Derby Devon Effingham Farlington Kensington Lancaster Lincoln Manchester Oxford Richmond Stafford Wakefield Washington Westmoreland Winchester
Kentucky Barnsley Birmingham. Boston, Louisville Boston, Nelson County BromleyNamed after Bromley, the birthplace of Charles Collins, a pharmacist who laid out the town in Kentucky in 1848. . Cambridge Carlisle Cumberland County Cumberland Falls Cumberland Gap Cumberland Plateau
Cumberland River DoverPossibly named after Dover, believed to be the birthplace of the founder's father. . Falmouth London. ManchesterManchester's founders envisioned it would become a large industrial city like Manchester, England.. Middlesboro Richmond Somerset WillibaBelieved to have been originally named after Willoughby, England, from where the ancestors of the area's settler's were thought to have emigrated; the name "Williba" was supposedly a corruption adopted by its first postmaster to fit the name on a rubber stamp. . Winchester
Louisiana
Maine
Acton Alton Andover Avon Bath. Beddington Berwick Biddeford BoothbayNamed after Old Boothby in Lincolnshire. . Bradford Bristol. Buxton. CambridgeHistory of Cambridge, Maine. Chelsea Cumberland Cumberland County Durham. Exeter Falmouth Harpswell KitteryNamed after the manor of Kittery Court, located on Kittery Point in Kingswear, the birthplace of founder Alexander Shapleigh. . Leeds Limington Manchester New Gloucester Oxford Portland Scarborough. Waltham Wells Yarmouth York. York County.
Maryland
Abingdon Barton Bristol Cambridge Cheltenham Chester Cumberland Doncaster Essex Hampstead Hillsborough Kensington Kent Manchester Millington Nottingham Olney Oxford Salisbury Sunderland Warwick Westminster
Massachusetts
Abington Acton Amesbury Andover Arlington Attleboro Avon Barnstable Bedford Beverly Billerica Blandford Bolton Boston Boxford Bradford Braintree Bridgewater Bridgewater (CDP) East Bridgewater West Bridgewater Brighton Brimfield Bristol Burlington (Bridlington) Cambridge Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Chelsea Chester Chesterfield Chilmark Concord Dartmouth Dedham Dorchester Dover Dunstable Duxbury Duxbury (CDP) South Duxbury Essex Essex County Falmouth Falmouth (CDP) East Falmouth North Falmouth West Falmouth Framingham Gloucester Grafton Great Barrington Groton Hadley Halifax Harwich Hardwick Hatfield Haverhill Hingham Hingham (CDP) Hull Hyde Park Ipswich Islington Kingston Leeds Lancaster Leicester Leominster Lexington Lincoln Ludlow Lynn Malden Manchester Mansfield Marlborough Marshfield Medford Medway Middleborough Middlesex County Milford Milton Needham Newbury New Ashford New Bedford Newton Norfolk Norfolk County Northampton Norton Norwood Oakham Oxford Petersham Plymouth Plymouth Beach Plymouth Center Plymouth County North Plymouth South Plymouth West Plymouth Plympton Raynham Reading Rochester Rowley Rutland Salisbury Sandwich Sheffield Shrewsbury Somerset Southampton Springfield Stockbridge Stoneham Stoughton Stow (Stowe) Sturbridge (Stourbridge) Sudbury Suffolk County Sunderland Sutton Taunton Templeton Tewksbury Tisbury West Tisbury Topsfield Truro North Truro Upton Uxbridge Wakefield Waltham Wareham Wareham Center