Thanks, Sporcle. I'd been considering submitting this myself for quite a while (unsurprisingly) but couldn't decide which data to use. British cities are weird, ill-defined things. Some, like the City of Manchester, are small things, whose city limits make no sense: when people talk about Manchester, they invariably mean Greater Manchester, which includes another nine cities and large towns. London is an even more extreme example. On the other hand, Leeds and Bradford are the centres of Metropolitan Districts that extend well out into the surrounding countryside, including lots of small towns and villages that aren't geographically part of the city but are administered by the city council.
This is probably the most sensible dataset to use but I don't much like lumping the whole of West Yorkshire into a single metro area. Leeds and Bradford are physically distinct cities with a narrow band of green space between them. Huddersfield and Wakefield are even more distinct and the exclusion of Halifax seems bizarre. |
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