Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sheffield is a geographically diverse city in England. It nestles in the eastern foothills of the Pennines [1] and the confluence of five rivers: Don, Sheaf, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter. As such, much of the city is built on hillsides, with views into the city centre or out to the countryside.
The government introduced the concept of a primary urban area as a defining characteristic for substantial settlements, using the shorthand term 'city' for them, whether or not they had formal city status. In reality, a PUA may contain multiple settlements, even multiple cities.
Norwich. The ONS has classified all built-up areas with a population of at least 200,000 as "major". Most are cities, with three large towns (Luton, Northampton and Reading) included. [1]
Description: Sheffield outline, showing motorways and urban areas. Date: April 2007: Source: Mapping is derived from Open Street Map data, which is licensed under a creative commons attribution sharealike licence.
Nottingham city currently has a population of about 320,000, but ministers say there may be exceptions, and decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis. A bigger city
The City of Sheffield is a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Sheffield , the town of Stocksbridge and the larger village of Chapeltown and part of the Peak District . [ 7 ]
The local authorities collaborate in some ways. The Greater Nottingham Partnership considered Greater Nottingham to consist of the City of Nottingham plus the entirety of the Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling boroughs, along with Hucknall from Ashfield, but no part of Derbyshire, as no Derbyshire council was a member of the Partnership. They ...
Sheffield City Centre (referred to locally as simply Town) is a district of the City of Sheffield and is covered partly by the City ward of the City of Sheffield.It includes the area that is within a radius of roughly 0.75 miles (1.2 km) of Sheffield Cathedral and is encircled by the Inner Ring Road, a circular route started in the late 1960s and completed in 2007.