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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: BillyStubbsTears on March 13, 2016, 11:10:05 pm

Title: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on March 13, 2016, 11:10:05 pm

http://www.sporcle.com/games/janisterzaj/cities_of_uk

78/100 for me.

Title: Re: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: Copps is Magic on March 14, 2016, 12:07:33 am

74, if my spelling was better would have gotten more. Poole was the highest one I didn't get at number 43. F'kin retirement home anyway.

Title: Re: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: ctay on March 14, 2016, 05:07:00 pm

73

Title: Re: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: Filo on March 14, 2016, 05:31:17 pm

59

Title: Re: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: Bentley Bullet on March 14, 2016, 05:47:27 pm

96  :whistle:

Title: Re: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: MrFrost on March 14, 2016, 06:16:17 pm

How accurate is this?
Isn't Donny's population over 300k? According to this it is 109k

79/100

Title: Re: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: NickDRFC on March 14, 2016, 06:33:46 pm

Depends on whether you are just looking at the town or the Metropolitan Borough. I always thought the town (which I think extends out to places like Cantley) was a bit less than 100k, whereas the borough (including loads of villages) is more like 300k.

Not sure what this quiz uses - can't anyone set up a Sporcle quiz? Although I would expect that the 100 most populous are more or less the right 100, they may not have that accurate figures.

Title: Re: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: BobG on March 14, 2016, 10:10:42 pm

Donny's population when it was a plain and simple town was lways around the 86,000 mark. i know that cos my Dad was a member of the AA and every couple of years they dished out a handbook to all their memberes. Inside the handbook was a list of pretty well every town in the country with all sorts of details about population, hotels and such like. Spent years reading that damn thing I did! I was always disappointed we couldn't run to anything better than a couple of three star hotels: Punches and the Earl of Doncaster. Mount Pleasant came along later to give us another 3 star in the end.

BobG

Title: Re: 100 most populous towns and cities in the UK
Post by: tommy toes on March 15, 2016, 09:07:00 am

Donny Met Borough is the 34th most populous in the country, however it's only a few thousand away from the top ten or so.