In the UK, city status isn't automatically granted to a community meeting any particular criteria. Nowadays, it is conferred at the discretion of the Sovereign. However some British cities predate the historical monarchy and have been regarded as cities since "time immemorial". These older cities, such as Chester, tend to have been based at military or religious centres.
A general rule of thumb used to be that any community with an Ancient University (a "university city"), a Diocesan Cathedral (a "cathedral city") or more than 1 million inhabitants was a city. However with the general growth in population, the 1 million inhabitants rule is no longer reliable.
There are currently 66 cities in the UK. 50 in England, 5 in Wales, 6 in Scotland and 5 in Northern Ireland.
English Cities
- Bath (cathedral city)
- Birmingham (cathedral city)
- Bradford (cathedral city)
- Brighton & Hove awarded in 2000
- Bristol (cathedral city)
- Cambridge (university city)
- Canterbury (cathedral city)
- Carlisle (cathedral city)
- Chester (cathedral city)
- Chichester (cathedral city)
- Coventry (cathedral city)
- Derby (cathedral city)
- Durham (cathedral city)
- Ely (cathedral city)
- Exeter (cathedral city)
- Gloucester (cathedral city)
- Hereford (cathedral city)
- Kingston-upon-Hull awarded in 1299
- Lancaster awarded in 1937
- Leeds (cathedral city)
- Leicester (cathedral city)
- Lichfield (cathedral city)
- Lincoln (cathedral city)
- Liverpool (cathedral city)
- London (cathedral city)
- Manchester (cathedral city)
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne (cathedral city)
- Norwich (cathedral city)
- Nottingham awarded in 1897
- Oxford (university city/cathedral city)
- Peterborough (cathedral city)
- Plymouth awarded in 1928
- Portsmouth (cathedral city)
- Preston awarded in 2002
- Ripon (cathedral city)
- Salford awarded in 1926
- Salisbury (cathedral city)
- Sheffield (cathedral city)
- Southampton awarded in 1964
- St Albans (cathedral city)
- Stoke-on-Trent awarded in 1925
- Sunderland[?] awarded in 1992
- Truro (cathedral city)
- Wakefield (cathedral city)
- Wells (cathedral city)
- Westminster, 16th century
- Winchester (cathedral city)
- Wolverhampton awarded in 2002
- Worcester (cathedral city)
- York (cathedral city)
See also:
Welsh Cities
- Bangor (cathedral city)
- Cardiff awarded in 1905
- Newport awarded in 2002
- St David's awarded in 1994 (cathedral city)
- Swansea awarded in 1969
Scottish Cities
- Aberdeen (cathedral city)
- Dundee, 13th century
- Edinburgh (cathedral city)
- Glasgow (cathedral city)
- Inverness awarded in 2000
- Stirling awarded in 2002
Northern Irish Cities
- Armagh awarded in 1994 (cathedral city)
- Belfast (cathedral city)
- Lisburn[?] awarded in 2002
- Londonderry (cathedral city)
- Newry[?] awarded in 2002
External link
- Government list of UK cities (http://www.lcd.gov.uk/constitution/city/citygj.htm#part6)
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