New York, Lincolnshire
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New York is a hamlet in East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated in the Lincolnshire Fens, on the B1192 road 18 km north of Boston. grid reference TF245555. After the September 11, 2001 attacks it decorated its road signs with flowers out of respect for those killed in the terrorist attacks in the United States of America.
The hamlet was named after the city of York in Yorkshire - unlike New York City in the USA, which was named after the 17th-century Duke of York, James Stuart, the future James II.
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