Richmond
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The place-name Richmond can be ambiguous in the UK. There are many name-sakes in countries of the formner British Empire, of which the most important is the state capital of Virginia. (There are over twenty Richmonds in the USA.)
- The oldest Richmond is that in North Yorkshire, which was founded in 1071 (after the Norman Conquest) by Alan Rufus, one of the Conqueror's Breton companions, lord of Richemont in Normandy.
