St Asaph?

[The Camel]

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

[The Camel]

There's another one!

St Davids.

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

[kinboshi]

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.

[The Camel]

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!

[kinboshi]

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.

[kinboshi]

Didn't realise Ripon was a city!

[The Camel]

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.

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

[The Camel]

Didn't realise Ripon was a city!

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"

[kinboshi]

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.

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

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

[kinboshi]

Didn't realise Ripon was a city!

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"

Going to call you Sherlock from now on...

[Robert HM]

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.

[kinboshi]

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

[The Camel]

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.

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

WB sir.

[Robert HM]

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.

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

WB sir.

Thank you Sir.

[77dave]

Luton is applying to become a city at the moment