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Poll Question: What's your favourite English city?
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Originally posted by Stooge Stooge wrote:

I'd love to visit England someday.  I believe my grandfather's (my father's father) parents were from Kent.  Could anyone tell me what that area is like?
 
there is a reason they call it "the Garden of England", it is good market garden country and they grow good hops there for our beer  Wink
 
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I had an uncle who lived in Broadstairs, Kent.. nice country, coastside I believe.  I think prefer the West midlands, much greener as I recall.  I do hope you get to visit, it is a truly beautiful country.
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I'd love to visit England someday.  I believe my grandfather's (my father's father) parents were from Kent.  Could anyone tell me what that area is like?
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 
did you know the smallest (by population) city in England is London.


Truly a fall from its peak - there was a time when it was the most populous city in the world.
mmwwwaa-ha-ha-ha, you fall into my trap - the city of London is a square mile of turf populated by some 7,000 people (and pretty much always has been - it size has not changed in hundreds of years). Greater London (with a population of 7.5 million) ranks 25th in the World but actually has two cities within its bondaries - The City of London and Westminster. Geek


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 
did you know the smallest (by population) city in England is London.


Truly a fall from its peak - there was a time when it was the most populous city in the world.
mmwwwaa-ha-ha-ha, you fall into my trap - the city of London is a square mile of turf populated by some 7,000 people (and pretty much always has been - it size has not changed in hundreds of years). Greater London (with a population of 7.5 million) ranks 25th in the World but actually has two cities within its bondaries - The City of London and Westminster. Geek
 
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^ phew, I was gonna say, there's no way Bath has more people than London  Confused
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 
did you know the smallest (by population) city in England is London.


Truly a fall from its peak - there was a time when it was the most populous city in the world.
mmwwwaa-ha-ha-ha, you fall into my trap - the city of London is a square mile of turf populated by some 7,000 people (and pretty much always has been - it size has not changed in hundreds of years). Greater London (with a population of 7.5 million) ranks 25th in the World but actually has two cities within its bondaries - The City of London and Westminster. Geek
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 
did you know the smallest (by population) city in England is London.


Truly a fall from its peak - there was a time when it was the most populous city in the world.
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I've only been to London, Oxford, and Canterbury, but London is pretty awesome.
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I fell in love with Bath - really extraordinary place - and I loved Ludlow, too (though more of a town)











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...and some of them are nearly as small as US cities Wink
 
did you know the smallest (by population) city in England is London.
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Been to Liverpool and saw the "Four Lads Who Shook the World" ,  been to Newcastle where it really rocks,  Leicester i got lost in, Southampton everybody is boarding the ferry out of there, Birmingham was always cold and raining when i went there, and Bristol i only visited twice - a life changing disaster on the first visit, two weeks spent in Bristol Royal Infirmary, the second my car overheated and blew a hose, but they are lovely people!
 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

You missed Liverpool off the list - my birthplace, and as a true Liverpudlian* I feel quite affronted!

I think you were the one who missed it.
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Full list of English Cities:
 
Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Coventry, Derby, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Kingston upon Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Liverpool, (City of) London, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston, Ripon, Salford, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southampton, St Albans, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Truro, Wakefield, Wells, Westminster, Winchester, Wolverhampton, Worcester, York.
 
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My wife and I love the northeast of England in general... Durham, Bamburgh, Warkworth, Alnwick etc. York is our favourite and most visited, in spite of the fact that (I believe) there still exists an ancient law that entitles a native Yorkshireman to shoot Scotsmen with the longbow LOL    
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Points: 1678 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2010 at 13:01
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:


Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

I agree, something should be done about those cyclists. All they do is slow down the traffic. The same goes for pedestrians. People who can't afford a car should stay off the streets.
Actually, I could afford a car, but choose not to have oneLOL - as odd as it may sound.



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I don't think Cambridge is a city is it? More a university town?

Anyway, I should've included York, my mistake. And yeah, Northampton isn't a city, my bad Embarrassed
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Leeds. My dear old dad was from Leeds. Defected to Canada in the 50s. I like going to London because you can be an ant. Haven't been for about a decade. 
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

You missed Liverpool off the list - my birthplace, and as a true Liverpudlian* I feel quite affronted!

I think you were the one who missed it.
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