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A city in the UK I've never heard of, with 3,000 odd population?

Wtf?

Very strange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Asaph

There's another one!

St Davids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_David%27s

Yes, became a city last year or the year before.  Was a question on university challenge a few weeks back and none of the teams got it and I felt smug (for about 20 seconds until the next question about English Literature).

Dafydd (jizzem on here) lives there and runs a pub there.  It's under a lot of water at the moment I believe.

Yeah, was just reading about the flood there, that's how I found out it was a city.

Ely, Ripon, Truro and Wells are all cities in England with < 20,000 populatoin.

But I've heard of all of those!

It only got city status very recently, and lots of towns applied for the status and only a few were selected. Northampton obviously passed over again.

Didn't realise Ripon was a city!

If only Northampton had a decent colonic irrigation practitioner I'm sure they'd pass.

I only know because it's local, it's possess the most beautiful racetrack I've ever visited and said racecourse holds a race called "The City of Ripon stakes" :)

Yeah, they thought they'd found one - but they looked at her prices and decided she was a comedienne!

Going to call you Sherlock from now on...

I thought St Asaph was a City based on the Cathedral. Didn't realise it was a recent grant. I guess that there are a few that lost out in the 19th century breaking of the links between catherdral and status that have been compensated like this, later.

Oh, it was only this year - thought it was last year:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-17365580

It only took a debate about the smallest city in Britain to winkle Robert out from his rabbithole.

WB sir.

Thank you Sir.

Luton is applying to become a city at the moment

It doesn't have a Cathedral, but it has me. Pretty sure that ought to be sufficient for Her Majesty.

That's good news for whichever city holds the title "worst city in the UK" at the moment.

3 Liverpool fans in the thread, and not one has mentioned Ian Rush yet!

Good point Vincento, St Asaph's most famous son, brilliant footballer and lover of Movember.

And we have two blonde members who live there, Llyr on his way back from St Kitts, and his brother Dafydd who was charecterised in Little Britain :-)  Lets hope the floods did not affect them too much.

I was born there, I will ask Daf to put some pics of his pub up here, he's a bit of a celeb he thinks now having been on ITV News yesterday morning.

Those pics on facebook aren't of his pub flooded are they?

Oh and apologies Dwayne, Rushie is St Asaph's second most-famous son ;)

:D

Yes his pub, his house is about 500 yards further out from the river said yesterday it was ok.  He'll let you know better.

Trying to post pictures but struggling..
A very surreal day to be honest, I was fortunate enough to not have a problem with the my home, it did not get to me, but the pub was flooded when I got a call for 7am.. Goit down there saved what was possible and then watched the levels rise at a rate I thought not possible..

If someone drops me a message on how to get pics that are too large on Ill see what I can do..

We have been lucky as a business and have managed to get a load of local builders/suppliers down with their cleaning tools and tarmac etc for the carpark and inside has been cleared of water by last night with electricity returned this afternoon and heating / fires all on in the hope of us getting the all clear by the health to open for friday..

Link to our facebook for anyone interested in pics etc..  facebook.com/ploughsa   

Hope it's all sorted and back to normal soon fella. Photos look terrible.

Amazed at how quick you've got it sorted!  Well done  :)