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<p>On 2019-09-07 19:04, Paul Allen wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 17:37, Colin Smale <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br />
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<p>On 2019-09-07 18:17, Paul Allen wrote:</p>
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<div>Some</div>
<div>large towns have taken to calling themselves cities even though they do not have a royal</div>
<div>charter awarding them that status.</div>
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<div>Got any examples of this?</div>
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<div>My crappy memory doesn't remember the names, or even where I read of it. But I did dig</div>
<div>up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_City" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_City</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City,_London" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City,_London</a></div>
<div>even though they don't ring any bells as being ones I read about. There's also Rochester,</div>
<div>which used to be a city but no longer is because the unitary authority cocked up. And St</div>
<div>David's, which was a city, then wasn't a city, and is back to being a city again, even though</div>
<div>it has a population of 2,000 and is really just a small town by OSM standards and by</div>
<div>just about anybody else's standards.</div>
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<div>Aah, I thought you were implying that some places were wilfully misrepresenting themselves for "marketing" reasons!</div>
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<div>There are also modern cities like Brighton and Hove which aren't a single place but an agglomeration.</div>
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