Photos and text on the major towns and cities of Great Britain, the United Kingdom (UK), or just Britain if you prefer. Towns are augmented by scrollable maps and tweets from twitter concerning that town. Towns are selected firstly by population size then by other factors. There are some gaps it is true - due to missing information from the sites where this was drawn. Britains towns and cities come in all shapes and sizes - the largest city London accounts for a large part of the population of the South East of the country, around it some smaller feeder towns of around 100,000 people. Further North there are more larger cities in a broader spread - Yorkshire, the North East and around Manchester having a high population density and quite a number of towns. Scotland and Wales are represented too, but their smaller populations and towns mean that the majority of towns shown are in England. Northern Ireland is not represented here ... perhaps another site for Ireland sometime... Britain is the ninth largest island in the world and the largest in Europe. It has a combined population of around 60 million people (2009) and is the third most populated island in the world. London, Cardiff and Edinburgh are the capital towns of England, Wales and Scotland respectively. It is separated from mainland Europe by the North Sea (English Channel) and from Ireland by the Irish Sea. Geographically, the island is marked by low, rolling countryside in the east and south, while hills and mountains predominate in the western and northern regions Through the years there have been the following counties in England. Some of these have now been merged or removed.
All over 2-0, Bath and Hayes both draw, alfreton, Stockport and Kettering all lose Kettering Newport, UK.
@Kendal_pearn yeah I guess :) xx Kendal Surrey, England.
RT @KeighleyKicks: Three #Keighley area matches confirmed as on – http://t.co/TVeq3FWR Keighley Haworth, Keighley.
Sam Magri and new signing Dan Thompson on target as Portsmouth academy draw 2-2 at Ipswich Ipswich Fratton Park.
@mikeybuffalo need inverness to get their s in gear! Inverness Manchester.
Ilkeston FC are away at Shepshed Dynamo today ('Butthole Lane'). And I thought The King Power Stadium was the worst football ground name... Ilkeston London.
1DayIWantTo move out of Huddersfield Huddersfield Huddersfield.
4 bedroom detached house for sale in Coates Lane, HIGH WYCOMBE, Buckinghamshire, HP13 http://t.co/mXeBQ4s3 #HighWycombe High Wycombe Penn, Buckinghamshire.
RT @HertfordTownFC: GOAL. Biggleswade Utd 0 Hertford 3. 54 mins. Draper sends the keeper the wrong way to get his hat trick. Hertford Hertford.
I'm at Sheepcote Lodge (Hereford) http://t.co/ja8g3pbi Hereford Hereford.
RT @idol_hands: The Wholls @ Indy Jax, Hemel Hempstead http://t.co/Q4ybJ7ld Hemel Hempstead Leigh on Sea, Essex.
I'm at Chelle's (Hastings, England) http://t.co/EKPyPQG5 Hastings Hastings, England.
I'm at HobbyCraft Havant (Solent Retail Park, Havant) http://t.co/FxiMyJYt Havant Solent Retail Park, Havant.
FULL TIME: Harrogate Town 0 Histon 0 Harrogate Cambridge, United Kingdom.
RT @kahowarth86: @themichaelowen funny when James brown scored for hartlepool.old Jeff was cheering like they'd won the cup! Hartlepool Dronfield.
Halifax's lone deal was to acquire Brendan Duke and a 2012 first-round pick in a deal that sent Gabriel Desjardins to Quebec on Thursday. Halifax Halifax.
Hanworth Villa 1 - 2 Guildford City. 90+3mins Guildford Guildford.
RT @SaveTheBloaters: BIG APPEAL to all in the Great Yarmouth area..get down the wellesley today & get behind our local team @The_Bloaters 3 o'clock kick-off Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth.
NEWS: Doyle family hit by second murder: A teenager who was murdered in Greenock was the nephew of a woman who d... http://t.co/HkYRS3kr Greenock London, UK.
RT @thamesworkboats: @GravesendTCM pls RT @thamesworkboats supplies small passenger boats from Gravesend and Chatham. Ashes scattering and River Taxi services. Gravesend Gravesend.
@NathanTheWanted pleaasee come to gloucester for signings gigs sometime this year? It would be amazing seeing how irs your hometown :D xx Gloucester ENGLAND;D.
New blog posting, Valentines Day Jewelry Glasgow - http://t.co/GtkMRmx2 Glasgow Leicester.
2-0 gateshead (live at http://t.co/Q58UAZiH) Gateshead Newcastle, England, UK..
RT @MirrorFootball: FA Cup F-Ts Everton 2-0 Tamworth; Fleetwood 1-5 Blackpool; Fulham 4-0 Charlton; Gillingham 1-3 Stoke; Hull 3-1 Ipswich Gillingham London, UK.
GOAL: Burgess Hill Town 0-2 FOLKESTONE INVICTA - King (52) http://t.co/ts2em3Rr #invictalive Folkestone Folkestone, Kent.
please no one be in farnham common today I have wet hair and no make up on #thanks Farnham .
Being brave and going into fareham... Hahahahahahaha Fareham England.
@fraham459 @stumcglynn @boabhunter @LeftPeg1982 st Johnston middlesborugh Brighton & Falkirk today for me chaps #banker Falkirk London.
#Exeter in the news: Result: Newcastle Falcons 10-16 Exeter Chiefs - Sports Mole http://t.co/zrAbBneI Exeter Exeter, UK.
I uploaded a @YouTube video http://t.co/kZFHdpmK Almost a crash in Ellesmere Port Ellesmere Port Manchester.
Avon, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, City of Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, Cheshire, Cleveland, Cornwall, Cumberland, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Suffolk, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Hampshire (County of Southampton), Hereford and Worcester, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Humberside, Huntingdon and Peterborough, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Ely, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, City of London, Merseyside, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Humberside, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Soke of Peterborough, Rutland, Shropshire (Salop), Somerset, South Humberside, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Westmorland, West Suffolk, West Sussex, West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire, East Riding, Yorkshire, North Riding, Yorkshire, West Riding.
Similarly for Scotland:
City of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus (Forfarshire) , Argyll , Ayrshire , Banffshire , Berwickshire , Bute , Caithness , Clackmannanshire , Cromartyshire , Dumfriesshire Dunbartonshire (Dumbarton) , City of Dundee , East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) , City of Edinburgh , Fife , City of Glasgow , Inverness-shire , Kincardineshire , Kinross-shire , Kirkcudbrightshire , Lanarkshire , Midlothian (County of Edinburgh) , Moray (Elginshire) , Nairnshire , Orkney , Peeblesshire , Perthshire , Renfrewshire , Ross and Cromarty , Ross-shire , Roxburghshire , Selkirkshire , Shetland (Zetland) , Stirlingshire , Sutherland , West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) , Wigtownshire.
And finally Wales:
Anglesey, Brecknockshire, Caernarfonshire Cardiganshire, Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Clwyd , Denbighshire, Dyfed , Flintshire, Glamorgan, Gwent, Gwynedd, Merionethshire, Mid Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Radnorshire, South Glamorgan, West Glamorgan.
