New Towns

[smoneybags]

Does anyone know when new towns drop the 'new' part of their names please?

[woofgang]

when they want to....there is no policy or guideline.

[heathfield]

Newbury was built as a new town by the Normans in the 11th century. They've still not dropped the "New".

[EDDIE51]

New Amsterdam calls itself New York now !

[FredPuli43]

Don't know whether Newcastle ever became not a new castle . Newmarket is still a new market in the context of when it became a royally granted market, hundreds of year ago. But there are old towns and villages called Newton and, I think, Newtown. A strange example of this is the 'new bridge', the Pont Neuf, in Paris. Naturally, it is the oldest bridge in the city.

[FredPuli43]

More seriously, Harlow New Town incorporated what became known as Old Harlow, but appears to have become simply Harlow in 1955 when there was a change in local government whereby the old parish of Harlow became an urban district and that included the new and old parts.

[smoneybags]

Thanks for all your answers, some of which didn't help! I think FredPuli43 is wrong because I moved to Harlow in 1960 and it was called Harlow New Town for some years after that.