How many UK cities have you visited?

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Inspired by a post on another thread, I decided to work this out. I've only been to 40 of the 76 - 32 in England, 6 in Scotland and only one each for Wales and Northern Ireland. (I've not included the Crown dependencies etc on the list though I have been to Douglas so it's 41 if I count that.) Some of my "visits" are a bit tenuous, such as my car broke down in Doncaster once so I perhaps haven't seen the place to its best advantage, but I haven't included places I have been through but not stopped at, such as going through Milton Keynes on the train, or being diverted through St Asaph due to roadworks on the way to a North Wales holiday!
I thought I'd visited most parts of the UK but looks like I actually have some pretty big gaps. How many have you been to? I have to confess that I didn't know that some of the places on this list even were cities.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-cities/list-of-cities-html

40, across England, Scotland and Wales.

I've not been to 13 of the English ones, 3 in NI and 1 in Scotland. So 59 out of 76.

I went to A LOT of gigs in my twenties all over the country.

I was thinking about this after that other thread so thank you OP. DH is currently on a thing to visit more countries than years he's lived so very much in that vein! You have just added some targets to add to that concept but within the UK.

Which on the list that are cities are people surprised by?

The only ones I wondered about were Gibraltar, Douglas and Port Stanley and googling tells me they were all awarded city status by the Queen as part of the jubilee celebrations in 2022.

32 plus in theory Douglas on the Isle of Man as I was conceived there :)

ive been to 49. None in NI and only 3 in Scotland.

34 - many of them on uni open days! I didn't count Milton Keynes as I've never visited the civic centre, only an event venue.

35

0 in wales, am rectifying that soon with a trip to Cardiff.

38, mostly in England.
I actually have been in some of the others in that I have changed trains there, but I decided if I didn’t leave the station, it didn’t count.

I only discovered Southend-on-Sea was a city in December. Despite having lived in Essex (the opposite side of Essex- towards Cambridge) for 14 years!

49

The missing ones are mostly smaller cities in the south and in Wales.

22 in all

16 in England, 2 in Ireland and 4 in Wales

All the Scottish ones, plus Belfast , rest in England. Never been to Wales.

I make it 39 in England, 1 in Northern Ireland, 2 in Scotland and 4 in Wales.

Total 46.

Although some university open day visits are maybe punching above their weight.

About 40
none in NI which is embarrassing, not been there at all

however the list is a bit odd.

City of Westminster isn’t really a city like say Manchester it’s just a borough in London. Similarly I’m guessing that with London it actually means the City of London (“the city”), which lots of folk who’ve been to London won’t have visited.

St Asaph, Wales is technically a city but is basically just a village.

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I believe southend has only been a city for a few months, after the MP who fought for it was murdered

In total, I've been to 44 of them.

Warrington is the biggest place that's not a city. It keeps being rejected for city status.

It's bigger than a large number of places on the list.

City status has limited relevance to size.

39 in England
2 in Scotland
3 in Wales
None of the others.

46, helped massively by growing up in NI and having a Scottish DH.
South of Manchester is seriously lacking in my list

49 for me, 3 in Wales, 4 in NI, none in Scotland, all the rest in England.

40 - just recounted.

Plans to visit 2 more this year though.

35 in England (not counting passing through by road or rail)
None in Scotland or Northern Ireland
2, possibly 3, in Wales.

55 (inc crown dependencies)...I appear to have been about a bit. Northern Ireland is a bit of gap as only Belfast and Derry.

The only English ones I haven't been to are:
Brighton, Lichfield and Canterbury.

I have been to all the ones in Wales.
I have also been to all the Scottish ones.
I have been to Douglas.
Sadly, I haven't been to NI at all.