# How many towns and cities named after saints in the UK?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 28, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-towns-and-cities-named-after-saints-in-the-uk/617088 "2012-03-28T21:49:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-towns-and-cities-named-after-saints-in-the-uk/617088/21 "2012-03-30T12:00:14Z")

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I wonder if you could pull something like this out of DbPedia or Wolfram Alpha. I haven’t got the skills for it, thats for sure, but perhaps it could be done?

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**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-towns-and-cities-named-after-saints-in-the-uk/617088/22 "2012-03-31T01:59:47Z")

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Isn’t “Kil” as in Kildonan or Kilkenny named after a church?

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