Twelve Placenames of Christmas: Partridge in a Pear Tree

Merry Christmas everyone!

This is my attempt to find towns and cities across the world with the words from the song The Twelve Days of Christmas in the names. We’re on Day One, and the song eases us in gently with “a partridge in a pear tree”.

A great start, as I found two places called Partridge, and surprisingly both were in the United States of America. There is one in Kentucky and the other is in Kansas. One presumes these are places which have (or had) large partridge populations at one point in history.

There appears to only be one placename of Pear in the whole world - and that is a village in Serbia. This surprised me, as I suspected there would also be areas of the world which had an abundance of pear trees growing natively, but apparently not. Pear, Serbia, is not a large village, having only a population of 537 in the 2002 census. A good target for a One-Place Study perhaps!

I also quite enjoyed the fact that there is also a Partridge Green in West Sussex, England, as it’s almost like it's a partridge sitting in a green tree… No? Just me then?

Tune in tomorrow for Day Two!

Know any Partridge or Pear places I've missed? Drop them in the comments!

Karen Bailey
Marketing Manager