Where is Wales?

[andrewalston]

There are also place names which were intended to confuse for commercial purposes, such as Dresden, which is a part of Stoke-on-Trent.

[Viktoria]

That could be handy,China stamped “Dresden “ might be mistaken for the genuine article !
Viktoria.

[patmo]

Not too mention the number of Stratfords around the world!!!

[Annie65115]

I was looking at a map of the England/Wales border tonight and spotted Botany Bay, with Barbadoes only a couple of miles away 

[Gadget]

A 4 x grt uncle of mine  (Thomas Burgess)  named Bala, Muskokas, Ontario after Bala, Wales.

[DianaCanada]

There is a London, Ontario, Canada. So anyone born there will be a Londoner. Canada style.

I live in London, Ontario.  Not born here though.  The river running through it is the Thames, and our county is Middlesex.  Parts of the city are called Westminster and Lambeth.  The city of Windsor is west of us and Stratford is to the east.
The local hockey team is the Lunnonites…actually the London Knights, but that is the local pronunciation. 

[a chesters]

Years ago, when OH and I were on a holiday trip, we stayed at Kingston in South Australia twice.

Once was in the Riverland district, not far from the Victorian border.

The other one was on the coast, south of Victor Harbor

The first one is correctly Kingston on Murray, and the second one is Kingston SE, or South East.

Very confusing when referring to them in the book or on photos

[andrewalston]

There are plenty of multiple occurrences of place names in the same area.

I live not far from Eccleston in Lancashire. The origin of the name is quite simple - a settlement with a church - so it is easy to see why Lancashire also has an Eccleston in Prescot, and a Great Eccleston and Little Eccleston in the Fylde.

Hale, Lancashire, Hale, Westmorland and Hale, Cheshire cause confusion in Ancestry's searches.

Close to Runcorn in Cheshire is the town of Halton. Across the Mersey, only a couple of miles away, part of Widnes is also called Halton. With reorganisations, both these places are now under the same  local government. 

[DianaCanada]

There are quite a few places in Canada with the name Richmond (something to do with the Duke of Richmond in the early 1800’s): Richmond, Quebec; New Richmond, Quebec: Richmond, Ont., Richmond Hill, Ont., and Richmond, BC.  There are probably more, those are the ones I can think of.