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The table displays the 31 smallest of the cities in the United Kingdom across three measures. Most of these appear in all three of the following categories: Area (body): [a] This default sort ranks the physically smallest 23 local government areas (parish/community, district, county) and if missing, a built-up locality that has city status
Mill towns in the United Kingdom; List of cities in the United Kingdom; List of post towns in the United Kingdom; List of United Kingdom locations; Category:Towns in England by county; Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), settlement areas in the pre-1974 reform governance structure which had town-equivalent populations to municipal ...
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.
Fordwich / ˈ f ɔːr d w ɪ tʃ / is a market town and a civil parish in east Kent, England, on the River Stour, northeast of Canterbury. It is the smallest community by population in Britain with a town council. [2] Its population increased by 30 between 2001 and 2011. [1]
Manningtree has traditionally claimed to be the smallest town in England, but its 2007 population of 700 people in 20 hectares [3] and the 2011 census population for the civil parish of 900 are much higher than the 351 population of Fordwich, Kent. [4] However, it is believed to be the smallest town by area. [5]
The Local Government Act 1972 allows civil parishes in England and Wales to resolve themselves to be Town Councils, under section (245 subsection 6), which also gives the chairman of such parishes the title 'town mayor'. Many former urban districts and municipal boroughs have such a status, along with other settlements with no prior town status.
St Davids contains the lowest population of all the cities of the UK, and has the smallest urban area, at 0.23 sq mi (0.60 km 2). However, with the formal city area defined by its community council extent of 17.93 sq mi (46.4 km 2 ), this sizeable expanse including offshore islands mean that several UK cities are smaller in area, with the City ...
This is a list of the 296 districts of England ordered by area, according to Standard Area Measurements published by the Office for National Statistics. [1] The area is defined as 'area to mean high water excluding inland water'.