Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

[Tubby Isaacs]

No, Denver, Norfolk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver,_Norfolk

I've got a "Radio Four 6.30 whimsical quiz" fondness for places like this. Any others?

[Stumpy Pepys]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

There's Hollywood, near Birmingham.

[The Exploding Vole]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Dallas in Morayshire. They may even have a Miss Ellie, I dunno.

[Guest]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

California, Stirlingshire

[Hofzinser]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Moscow, East Ayrshire.

[Wyatt Earp]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Montréal en Ardèche. Nice little town. My son, who was six or seven at the time, loved the blacksmiths at the castle.

[Gangster Octopus]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Zimbabwe. Sorry Rhodesia...

[Wyatt Earp]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Baltimore, co. Cork. Lovely, though very touristy, little SW Irish harbour town; Ireland's answer to Tintagel or somewhere. Not a member of the Barksdale crew in sight, you feel me?

[Gangster Octopus]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Every time we play this game, I mention Pennsylvania. And the fact that every time I pass through there, I say "I hadn't realised that we'd gone so far west". I am a wag.

[Wyatt Earp]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Our old friend ad hoc failed by one letter to grown up in an example of this: Melbourn, Cambs.

[Gangster Octopus]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

I've finally been able to get that Arctic Monkeys quote on a map.

[longeared]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

There's a Melbourne in Derbyshire

[Ginger Yellow]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Paris, Texas. Of course.

There are lots of Moscows in the US as well, including in Texas. I'm kind of surprised they didn't change their names during the Cold War.

[Cavalry Trouser Tips]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Egypt, Bradford

[evilC]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Gatwick, Surrey.

(I hope that link works.)

[Incandenza]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

London, California: population 1,848.

[Bruno]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Versailles, Kentucky (pronounced 'ver-sails')

and

Cairo, Illinois (Care-o, though you also hear cay-ro)

[Wyatt Earp]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

I thought we were doing little Old World places with the same name as big New World places. There are surely too many the other way round.

[Sean of the Shed]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

New York in Lincolnshire, more Crab apple than Big Apple. So shit they named it once.

[Wyatt Earp]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Not far from Boston, I see.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Menlo park, the new jersey home town of thomas edison, and confusingly also home to stanford university, and about half of fleetwood mac is just outside galway city on the dublin road.

There's a boston very near the father ted house on the burren. Baltimore in cork, and by extension in maryland is actually named after a townsland on the leitrim/longford border.

[Sean of the Shed]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

longeared wrote:

There's a Melbourne in Derbyshire

This is the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Not quite the same capacity. It's situated on Cockshut Lane. (fnarr)

[Bruno]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Why on Earth... wrote:

I thought we were doing little Old World places with the same name as big New World places. There are surely too many the other way round.

There are, that's why I took care to select only the two best examples.

[Jimmy Bignutz]

Do you mean Denver, Colorado?

Why on Earth... wrote:

Baltimore, co. Cork. Lovely, though very touristy, little SW Irish harbour town; Ireland's answer to Tintagel or somewhere. Not a member of the Barksdale crew in sight, you feel me?

Only because they were all forced out by Marl O'Stanfield