as 'The Stump', the largest parish church in England, which is visible from miles away across the flat lands of Lincolnshire. Residents of Boston are known as Bostonians. Emigrants from Boston named several other settlements around the world after the town--most notably Boston, Massachusetts, then an English colony and now part of the United States.

Toponymy

The name Boston is said to be a contraction of "Saint Botolph's

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