What's the biggest UK city you've neve been to?

[AndyRM]

Did they just make up those figures? Because Sunderland isn't that big according to the 2011 census, and Newcastle isn't that small.

Anyway, I've never been to Leeds.

 

[raleighnut]

Went there a few weeks ago-first visit.
Very enjoyable.

No doubt, just never been.

 

[Colin_P]

I've been to most of the cities listed except Ireland and the North East of England.

It would be interesting if we could put the clock back 50, 100 and 200 years and ask the same question. Going back 200 years there would be people answering that they have onlyonce been to the next village.

 

[palinurus]

I didn't get far down the list, never been to Bradford.

 

[Venod]

I don't know where the list originates from but it looks as if the Wakefield figures include all Wakefield Metropolitan District Council areas, this includes a lot of towns that are quite separate from Wakefield and wouldn't identify themselves as being Wakefield, how many of the other places listed suffer the same anomaly,

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It would be interesting if we could put the clock back 50, 100 and 200 years and ask the same question. Going back 200 years there would be people answering that they have onlyonce been to the next village.

 

[DaveReading]

I've been to Bangor (County Down) but not to Bangor (Gwynedd). Which one did you mean?

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Ive been to most , the only;y ones i haven't are Belfast and Aberdeen

 

[marknotgeorge]

I don't know where the list originates from but it looks as if the Wakefield figures include all Wakefield Metropolitan District Council areas, this includes a lot of towns that are quite separate from Wakefield and wouldn't identify themselves as being Wakefield, how many of the other places listed suffer the same anomaly,

I think that Nottingham's the other way around. There's a lot of bits of the Nottingham urban area, such as Beeston, that aren't in Nottingham City Council's area.

 

[srw]

City Population
London 7.2 Million
[...]
Westminster 190000

On a point of order. If the City of Westiminster is on the list with a poopulation of 190,000, then the City of London should be second from bottom with a population of 7,000, not at the top with a population 1000 times bigger.

 

[srw]

Anyway, if you'll let me have "passed through on a train", then I suspect the only ones on the list I've not been to are the Northern Irish ones, Aberdeen, Dundee and Stirling.

 

[MontyVeda]

City Population
...
Lancaster 135000
...

Where's that list from? The population for Lancaster seems way off the mark.

 

[nickyboy]

Where's that list from? The population for Lancaster seems way off the mark.

I think it sorta based on municipal boundaries. So presumably including Morecambe and the thriving metropolis of Carnforth

Here's the source http://www.ukcities.co.uk/populations/

And here's the answer to the eternal conundrum; what is a city?

According to the part of the British government known as the Department for Constitutional Affairs:

"City status is a rare mark of distinction granted by the Sovereign and conferred by Letters Patent. It is granted by personal Command of The Queen, on the advice of Her Ministers. It is for Her Majesty The Queen to decide when a competition for city status should be held. Competitions are usually held on occasions such as important Royal anniversaries."

 

[srw]

Did the train stop?

I'm not still on it, and haven't got off a moving train, so yes it did.

I think most of the train journeys concerned included stops at the stations in the cities concerned.

I reckon I've also probably cycled in or to a good dozen of the cities in the list as well.

 

[srw]

On a point of order. If the City of Westiminster is on the list with a poopulation of 190,000, then the City of London should be second from bottom with a population of 7,000, not at the top with a population 1000 times bigger.

And come to think of it, it's not the City of Brighton, it's the City of Brighton and Hove.