History UsefulNotes / OtherBritishTownsAndCities

A place almost as cheery in description as Aberdeen. While it used to be known for jam, jute, and journalism, the jute industry (which is a type of fibre grown in India and used to make sacking material) sharply declined after the First World War, and the jam industry ended in 1988 when the James Keiller company was sold and moved to Manchester. Journalism is still going strong, however, and Dundee is the home of DC Thomson, most famous for being the publishers of a number of newspapers as well as some of the most popular British comics such as ''Comicbook/TheBeano'', ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' and ''Comicbook/{{Commando}}''. There's a statue of Desperate Dan and his dog in Dundee city centre.

* Ely, Cambridgeshire (E) -- One of the UK's smaller cities falling between Cambridge and Kings Lynn, it's small size stems from being surrounded by the fens for centuries prior to drainage. Known for its cathedral with its octaconal towers and being one of the main hold outs against the Norman conquest.

* Ipswich, Suffolk (E) -- The largest town in Suffolk. It gained nationwide notoriety in 2006 when five prostitutes were murdered in the town. Birthplace of Thomas Wolsey; Music/EdSheeran also grew up in the local area. Has a football team that was once great, but is now to football what the Chudley Cannons are to Quidditch. Has a long rivalry with Norwich in football. Not to be confused with the [[UsefulNotes/OtherAustralianTownsAndCities other Ipswich in the former penal colony]], or the ones on [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates the other side of the pond]]. Saw a massive building program to redevelop its disused docks in the mid-2000s, which promptly collapsed when the 2008 crisis hit. This resulted in two tower blocks being left unfinished: The Mill, which, while the tallest building in East Anglia, is two-thirds empty; and the "Winerack", the skeleton of another tower that sat unfinished for a decade. The latter was finally finished in 2019; the new developer showed a sense of humour by adopting the long used nickname as its designation. Sadly, the Mill remains unfinished and is decaying badly (largely because nobody knows who actually owns the wretched thing). Ipswich is also home to the UK's largest agricultural export port, based around Cliff Quay, down the river from the old docks.

* Southend-on-Sea, Essex (E) -- As its name suggests this is a city on the south end of Essex and is by the sea. Like many towns beside the sea, it used to be a popular seaside resort, but has declined since holidays abroad became more affordable. The city is at the eastern-most edge and is the largest of a number of towns along the Essex side of the Thames estuary which almost form a conurbation which stretches all the way to London. However growth which would lead to this is prevented by the Metropolitan Green Belt although Southend and Basildon are close to becoming one urban sprawl. It has a small airport. It became a city in 2022 in tribute after one of the local MPs, who had been campaigning for city status, was murdered.

A pretty and ancient coastal town in Fife, about halfway between Edinburgh and Dundee. At one time it was the seat of an Archbishopric, and effectively the Scottish equivalent of Canterbury, though its cathedral - purported resting place of St Andrew the Apostle - is now a picturesque ruin, having been destroyed during the Protestant Reformation. Now largely known for its medieval university - the oldest in Britain after Oxford and Cambridge - and as the effective home of golf. The town is quite literally surrounded by golf courses, and The R&A, which together with the United States Golf Association sets the rules for the sport, is housed next to the 18th green of the most famous of said courses, the Old Course. The Prince and Princess of Wales famously met in the town as students in the early 2000s.

Capital of Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the East of Scotland. Has the Scottish National Museum, the Scottish National Library, Holyrood Palace[[note]]the official residence of the monarch in Scotland, and serves as such in late June/early July when it hosts said monarch as part of Holyrood Week (aka Royal Week) for reasons rooted in the 1707 Act of Union; the monarch usually then hies off to Balmoral on summer holiday immediately afterward[[/note]] and Park[[note]]Arthur's Seat is here[[/note]], a pretty cantilever bridge crossing the Forth, and a ''very'' famous castle that dominates the city skyline[[note]]human settlement on Castle Rock dates back an estimated ''two thousand years'', and it's been fortified for over a millennium[[/note]].\\
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Capital of Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the East of Scotland. Has the Scottish National Museum, the Scottish National Library, Holyrood Palace[[note]]the official residence of the monarch in Scotland, and serves as such in late June/early July when it hosts said monarch as part of Holyrood Week (aka Royal Week) for reasons rooted in the 1707 Act of Union; the monarch usually then hies off to Balmoral on summer holiday immediately afterward[[/note]] and Park[[note]]Arthur's Seat is here[[/note]], a pretty cantilever bridge crossing the Forth, and a ''very'' famous castle that dominates the city skyline[[note]]human settlement on Castle Rock dates back an estimated ''two thousand years'', and it's been fortified for over a millennium[[/note]].

Capital of Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the East of Scotland. Has the Scottish National Museum, the Scottish National Library, Holyrood Palace[[note]]the official residence of the monarch in Scotland, and serves as such in late June/early July when it hosts said monarch as part of Holyrood Week (aka Royal Week) for reasons rooted in the 1707 Act of Union; said monarch usually hies off to Balmoral on summer holiday immediately afterward[[/note]] and Park[[note]]Arthur's Seat is here[[/note]], a pretty cantilever bridge crossing the Forth, and a ''very'' famous castle that dominates the city skyline[[note]]human settlement on Castle Rock dates back an estimated ''two thousand years'', and it's been fortified for over a millennium[[/note]].

Capital of Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the East of Scotland. Has the Scottish National Museum, the Scottish National Library, Holyrood Palace and Park[[note]]Arthur's Seat is here[[/note]], a pretty cantilever bridge crossing the Forth, and a ''very'' famous castle that dominates the city skyline[[note]]human settlement on Castle Rock dates back an estimated ''two thousand years'', and it's been fortified for over a millennium[[/note]].

* Aldeburgh, Suffolk (E) -- A tiny seaside town northeast of Woodbridge, has two of the best fish and chip shops in the country, a strange sculpture of a scallop and Sizewell Nuclear Power station just up the road. Used to be a massive port and boat building centre, but after the local river silted up, the population collapsed. Once elected two [=MPs=] to Parliament until it was realised there were so few people left the seats were literally being bought and sold. Like most rotten boroughs, it swiftly lost all representation after the 1832 Reform act.

* UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}}, Merseyside (NW) -- Home of Music/TheBeatles, Liverpool FC, ''Series/{{Bread}}'', Creator/CliveBarker and Creator/CraigCharles. Oh, and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Everton FC]]. Locals are called "Liverpudlians", or, more colloquially, "Scousers" (after a local soup called ''lobscouse''). Scousers are stereotyped in media as being argumentative, criminal-minded but lovable at heart and prone to displays of emotion not usually found in Britons. There is a large Irish-descended population in Liverpool, from which both Lennon and [=McCartney=] came. Liverpool also has, (perhaps now ''had'') at least three Welsh-language churches, testimony to the input of people from nearby North Wales. This can also be seen in the history of players for both Liverpool FC and Everton FC, with respective club legends Ian Rush and Neville Southall being Welsh. In fact, Welsh regiments of the British Army still find it a rich recruiting area; there used to be a separate Army regiment, the Liverpool Welsh, which has long since been amalgamated into the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City was declared a [[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1150 UNESCO World Heritage site]] in 2004, and the city was made European Capital of Culture in 2008. As might be guessed, the city is football obsessed, with both teams dominating English football in the 80s (as well as European football, in Liverpool's case). As of 2020, Liverpool are the current Premier League champions, ending a 30 year wait for the title in style. Cue much gloating.

** Not to be confused with Gateshead - or, rather, the two are not to be confused as being the same city, despite being essentially contiguous. Newcastle occupies the north side of the river, Gateshead the south. The famous car park in ''Film/GetCarter'', for example, isn't in Newcastle, it ''was'' in Gateshead. Whereas another scene has a chase across the landmark High Level Bridge,

* Doncaster, South Yorkshire (Yorks & Humber) -- A city of about 160,000 which impatiently waited to become a city from 1300 AD until its wish was granted in 2022. Primarily known for its St Leger Stakes horse race and building steam locomotives. Has an airport named after RobinHood, thanks to some modern historians arguing the outlaw was actually from Barnsdale rather than Sherwood (This has still been unpopular with the locals, who would have preferred it to be named after Danian heroic pilot Douglas Bader, and believe the name was chosen because foreigners are morons). Birthplace of [[Series/TopGearUK Jeremy Clarkson]], [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Dame Diana Rigg]], and home of '''Creator/BrianBlessed''' and (by sheer coincidence) the [=UK=]'s largest university for the hearing impaired.

* Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire (E Mids) -- Medium sized town in Nottinghamshire, although close to Lincolnshire. Mostly just called Newark unless talking to Americans. Known for being one of, if not the last, Royalist towns to surrender during the Civil War. A few hundred years earlier [[RobinHood King John]] died in the castle (which is now little more than a ruin).

* Luton, Bedfordshire (E) -- multicultural town, once known as one of the centres of the British hat industry, but now known for being described as "multicultural without being cultural". Home of some of the first LGBT bars in the UK throughout the First and Second World War, and the River Lea, that finishes as the River Thames in London. A common {{Acceptable Target}}s for many people that live outside of the town. Birthplace of one of the chasers from the UK version of ''Series/{{The Chase|GameShow}}'', and several popular musicians. Also home to London Luton Airport, which, despite what various airlines want you to think, is not actually all that close to London.

* Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. [[AcceptableTargets Many Britons find this amusing]]."

* Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (E) -- A famous university town known primarily for having one of the top ranked universities in the world, and having [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Cambridge University take part in an annual boat race against Oxford University]].

* Llanelli, Carmarthenshire — A seaside market town in west Wales that stereotypically lives, eats, drinks, sleeps and breathes rugby (union), which is to some degree TruthInTelevision. The traditional local club, Llanelli RFC, claimed many an international scalp during the sport's amateur era, most notably New Zealand's All Blacks in 1978, and is now the primary feeder club to the Scarlets, which compete in the United Rugby Championship that also features sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and South Africa. Traditionally a manufacturing centre, especially for tinplate, [[note]] The fight song of the rugby union club is a melodious ditty called "Sosban Fach" - which means "Little Saucepan" in English, of which Llanelli made a ''lot'' [[/note]] but now with a more service-oriented economy. The area around Llanelli is also one of the main strongholds of the Welsh language; whilst only about 25% of the town speaks Welsh as their first language, it's surrounded by areas where a majority speak the language.

* Glastonbury, Somerset (SW) -- Stereotyped as being very religious -- legend has it that UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' tomb was there, apparently Joseph of Arimathea visited once, and planted a Thorn bush. It is also the alleged burial place of Myth/KingArthur[[note]]However, most historians are very suspicious about whether King Arthur was actually buried there, since the monks of the Abbey happened to find the "burial" just after a fire razed the place to the ground, and they needed to raise money for a rebuild...[[/note]] and it suspected to be the Isle of Avalon from the stories. However, for all its religious associations, most of the shops in the town sell stuff more related with [[LeyLines New Age beliefs]]. Best known for Glastonbury music festival, six miles out of the town.

* Glastonbury, Somerset (SW) -- Stereotyped as being very religious -- legend has it that UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' tomb was there, apparently Joseph of Arimathea visited once, and planted a Thorn bush. It is also the alleged burial place of Myth/KingArthur[[note]]However, most historians are very suspicious about whether King Arthur was actually buried there, since the monks of the Abbey happened to find the "burial" just after a fire razed the place to the ground, and they needed to raise money for a rebuild...[[/note]] and it suspected to be the Isle of Avalon from the stories. However, for all its religious associations, most of the shops in the town sell stuff more related with New Age beliefs. Best known for Glastonbury music festival, six miles out of the town.