2006-10-08 04:30:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
no
2006-10-08 04:42:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No - only the US & Canada - but they refer to Americans as the 'English' I believe.
The Amish started in Europe but are now mainly based in America.
They live in 24 states of the United States (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York, Maine, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana and Washington) and the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Have a look at the film Witness starring Harrison Ford for a Hollywood idea of the way they live.
PS dcronieuk - the recent murders of Amish children were in the US...not the UK.
2006-10-08 04:45:13 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Crusty 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't say for sure there are none, but is isn't very likely, as the Amish are descended from Germanic immigrants to the US in the early 1700s and still speak German. They were one of several strongly religious groups that left Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries seeking a more tolerant society, their religious tradition would definitely not have found a welcome in Britain during that period (for example, Anabaptists, to whom the Amish are closely allied, were burned at the stake in Elizabethan England). So far as I am aware they live primarily in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Iowa, although I believe there are some in Canada too. So there is no historical link to Britain, and, given their lifestyle, no reason to think that they would have migrated to Britain more recently.
2006-10-08 05:02:02 · answer #3 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amish, Mennonites, and other Anabaptist groups left Europe to avoid religious perception. The Amish,to my knowledge, are settled in groups primarily in the USA.l For more info checkout the link below.
2006-10-08 04:41:44 · answer #4 · answered by shapsjo 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Originally, and I'm telling you houndreds of years ago, they came from Europe to settle down in a free country/new country like USA.
2006-10-13 09:33:43 · answer #5 · answered by Ariale 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because a story is featured on the times or the guardian does not mean it happened in England....
2006-10-08 04:40:30 · answer #6 · answered by tyrian&eustas(the puffin) 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. I only know of the ones that settled down in the now U. S.
2006-10-13 16:02:43 · answer #7 · answered by rollodecriente 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The U.K. and places like that is where they escaped from in order to get there religious freedom.
2006-10-08 07:03:36 · answer #8 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there's one in my street...oh no, sorry i was mistaking catholics for amishers...
before you report me, am a catholic...an anglo catholic, my roman catholic neybor told me i was. we got on very well until he tried to "seduce" me.
we've also got a very nice jewish contingent in our street too...and lgbts...what a cultured street i live in.
2006-10-08 12:18:03 · answer #9 · answered by swot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None that I know of.
2006-10-08 08:46:19 · answer #10 · answered by marizani 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,but there should be, they have a good way of life.
2006-10-08 04:44:34 · answer #11 · answered by pageys 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋