All cities of United Kingdom

It's a little known fact that Bristol has a motto - "Virtue et Industria" - meaning virtue and hard work. Now, this might look an odd choice for a cit …

Chapels, colleges, alleyways, laboratories, libraries; all have a tale to tell. If only the stones could speak – and they do! Henry VIII clutching a …

The City of Canterbury is a local government district with city status in Kent, England. The main settlement in the district is Canterbury, the seat o …

The Welsh capital is a city undergoing major renewal, as is evidenced by the amount of building and reconstruction that is taking place. Most noticeab …

Carlisle is a city in the extreme north west of England, some 10 miles from the border with Scotland. It is part of the City of Carlisle local governm …

Derry or Londonderry (in Irish, Doire or Doire Cholm Chille), often called the Maiden City, is a city in Northern Ireland. The old walled city of Lond …

The origin of the name ‘Edinburgh’ may be uncertain, but whether it is a corruption of Edwin’s Burgh or from the Gaelic ‘din Eidyn’ (meaning …

The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in England, UK. It is located at 50°43′25″N, 3°31′39″W. In the 2001 census its population wa …

Gibraltar is an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom on the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean south of S …

Glasgow has seen more changes in the past two decades than almost any other British city. From a declining industrial centre with widespread pessimism …

Leeds had established itself as an important centre of industry and commerce long before Royal Charter granted city status in 1893. In the eighth cent …

Lisburn (Lios na gCearrbhach in Irish) is a city split between County Antrim & County Down, Northern Ireland. The River Lagan denotes the county bound …

Situated on the north bank of the River Mersey, Liverpool began its development from a small riverside village in 1700 and became one of the UK’s ma …

Vast, vibrant and truly multicultural, London is one of the world’s great cities. Located in the southeast of England, on the River Thames, it is th …

The very earliest origins of Manchester can be traced back to the establishment of a Roman outpost called Mancunium in AD79, the remnants of which are …

The Roman Occupation - During the construction of Hadrian’s Wall in the second century AD the Tyne was bridged somewhere near the current site of th …

Newry (Irish: Iúr Chinn Trá) is the fourth largest city in Northern Ireland, and ninth in all-Ireland. Half of it is situated in County Armagh and t …

Nottingham is a city and county town of Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. Nottingham lies on the River Trent, which flows from Stoke-o …

The first written reference to Oxford, or Oxenford as it was then called, is a 912 entry in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle stating that 'King Edward (the e …

A major seaport in a major seafaring nation, Plymouth's history revolves around the sea, and she came into her own in the Elizabethan era when her pri …