Posted by Robert Hill on January 07, 2007 at 20:19:22 from 195.92.168.170 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Summary - Re: Britain posted by Prue Eckett on January 06, 2007 at 20:59:46:
New Zealand certainly isn't part of Zeeland
There are at least two places called New Britain, neither of which is in Britain, though one of them is in New England.
A lot of rather old places and things in Britain have 'new' in their names, most famously New College, Oxford (founded 1379), Newcastle upon Tyne (so called since 1080) and the New Forest (so called since 1079).