small cities

[bricro]

A city has to have a cathedral, so I believe,but does this mean that wherever there is a cathedral there is also a city?

Thank you in advance for replies.

[mightyWBA]

http://en.wikipedia.o...in_the_United_Kingdom
There you go :-)

[jno]

traditionally, if you had a church you were a village (if you didn't you were just a hamlet); if you had a market you were a town; if you had a cathedral you were a city. But you now have to get official permission to be called a city, as per mightyWBA's link (although any suburb can pretend to be a village). However, I think it's true that all cathedrals are in cities.

[mike11111]

Not necessarily jno - Derby has had a cathedral since 1927 but was not made a city until 1977.

[jno]

true, mike, but I meant right now, which is what I think the original question was about - I can't think of any cathedrals that aren't in cities. On the other hand, I could be overlooking some.

[jake-the-peg]

Ely?

[Mosaic]

Blackburn cathedral, chosen by the late Archbishop Temple as the ideal site for an additional cathedral as its position next to a bus and railway station would allow it to serve a wide urban population.
Blackburn is many things, but not a city.

[jno]

yes, good thought, Blackburn. I suppose you could argue there's no Southwark City (another cathedral that used to be a parish church), but it's in London. Ely's a city, I think.

[mike11111]

Also St Edmundsbury cathedral in Suffolk. Bury St Emunds is not a city

[ABerrant]

The subject of cathedral towns is addressed in the wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.o...ngdom#Cathedral_towns

[bricro]

Thank you everyone, I will investigate further.

Much obliged Bricro.