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Abingdon-on-Thames
Abingdon-on-Thames, also called Abingdon, is a market town in Oxfordshire, England, at the Ock–Thames confluence, claiming to be England's oldest continuously inhabited town, with a medieval abbey, County Hall, MG heritage, and no railway station.
Aldershot
Aldershot, Hampshire, England: garrison town known as the Home of the British Army since the 1854 founding of the British Army's first permanent training camp; also a Rushmoor borough town and parliamentary constituency.
Amersham
Amersham (Agnodesham in Domesday Book) is a Chilterns market town in Buckinghamshire with a 1200 King John market charter, a 1682 Market Hall, and the 1892 Metropolitan Railway that created Amersham-on-the-Hill and Metroland.
Andover, Hampshire
Andover, Hampshire: market town in the Test Valley on the River Anton, Saxon royal site from 950, Domesday six mills, home of the Museum of the Iron Age and Danebury finds.
Ashford, Kent
Ashford, England, is a market town and administrative center in Kent on the River Stour, with a market charter of 1243 and railway works from 1848.
Ashford, Surrey
Ashford, Surrey: a suburban town in Spelthorne on the River Ash, historically Middlesex, part of Surrey since 1965; Domesday Exeforde; distinct from Ashford, Kent; trains to London Waterloo.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury, the county town of Buckinghamshire, England, is a Domesday-recorded market town of over 90,000 people. Distinguished by its prescriptive medieval market, 1554 incorporation, 2017 Garden Town status, and a 16,000-home growth programme to 2033.
Banbury
Banbury is a market town in Cherwell district, northern Oxfordshire, England, the county's largest town with about 60,000 people. Known for Banbury Cross, Banbury cakes, the Oxford Canal, Tooley's Boatyard, and its Civil War castle sieges.
Basingstoke
Basingstoke, largest town in Hampshire, England, in the M3 corridor. Ancient market town recorded in Domesday Book 1086; cloth town, coaching hub, London overspill town from 1961, now a business center.
Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield (Beckenesfeld) is a Buckinghamshire market town about 23 miles west of London, named from Old English for beech. Old Town coaching stop, 1906 railway and New Town, Bekonscot model village (1929), twinned with Langres.
Beddingham
Beddingham, a village in the Ouse valley of East Sussex near Lewes, is the site of a Roman villa discovered in 1986 by aerial reconnaissance, excavated from 1987, with Bronze Age origins, infant burials, and post-Roman Saxon occupation.
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis, also historically called Bognor or Hothamton, is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, population about 24,000. Founded as a resort by Sir Richard Hotham in the 1780s, it gained the suffix Regis from George V in 1929.
Bracknell
Bracknell is a town in Berkshire, England, about 30 kilometers south west of London, designated a New Town in 1949 and rebuilt from a small market town into a major Thames Valley center.
Brighton
Brighton, English seaside city in Brighton and Hove (pop. 277,200, 2021); resort made fashionable by George IV and the Royal Pavilion, now a tourism, digital, and commuter economy facing acute housing affordability pressure.
Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove is a unitary authority and city on England's south coast, formed in 1997, granted city status in 2000, population about 278,000, governed by a Labour-majority council and facing reorganisation into unitary councils by 2028.
Canterbury
Canterbury, Kent, England: cathedral city and seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, site of St Augustine's 597 mission and Becket's 1170 murder, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988.
Chatham, Kent
Chatham, Kent: one of the five Medway towns, home of the Royal Dockyard founded in 1567, builder of HMS Victory and 57 submarines, closed 1984, now the Historic Dockyard and a regeneration focus.
Chertsey
Chertsey is a Surrey town on the south bank of the Thames, founded around Chertsey Abbey (666 AD), a Domesday Book market town, now notable for repeated Thames flooding and the River Thames Scheme relief channel ending at the town.
Chichester
Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, England, on the Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum. District population 124,100 (2021); Local Plan 2021-2039 adopted August 2025; home to Chichester Cathedral and Festival Theatre.
Chipping Norton
Chipping Norton, or 'Chippy', is a Cotswold market town in West Oxfordshire, England, population just over 6,000. Known for its 1205 market charter, Bliss Mill tweed mill, St Mary's Church, and status as Oxfordshire's highest town.
City of Westminster
City of Westminster, an Inner London borough with city status, contains Parliament, 10 Downing Street, and Westminster Abbey. About 212,000 residents; £72bn GVA; 42% households in poverty after housing costs.
Cox Green
Cox Green is a village and civil parish on the western outskirts of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, known for its Romano-British villa excavated in 1959 and the fifteenth-century Grade I listed Ockwells Manor.
Crawley
Crawley: West Sussex town and borough, designated a New Town on 9 January 1947, home to London Gatwick Airport and Manor Royal; population 118,500 (2021), economy about £6 billion GVA, 14 neighbourhoods, borough council to be dissolved March 2028.
Croydon
Croydon is a major town and administrative centre in south London, the seat of the London Borough of Croydon. Population 390,800 (2021); known for Tramlink light rail, the 1896 Town Hall, and town-centre regeneration after the council's 2020 financial collapse.
Dartford
Dartford is a town and borough in north Kent on the River Darent near the Thames, a Roman Watling Street ford, industrial papermaking and brewing center, and between 1877 and 1903 the site of an unmatched hospital concentration of nearly 10,000 beds.
Deal, Kent
Deal, Kent: seaside town on the east Kent coast near Dover, a Cinque Ports limb famous for its harbourless shingle-beach boats, Deal Castle, the 1957 pier, and the 1989 Royal Marines bombing.
Dover
Dover (Kent, England): coastal town and ferry port in the river Dour valley, 21 miles from France. Busiest passenger ferryport; over 9 million passengers and 2 million freight vehicles in 2025; site of Dover Castle and the Bronze Age Boat.
Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a seaside town in East Sussex, England, on the English Channel coast between Brighton and Hastings, known for its Victorian seafront and Beachy Head.
Emsworth
Emsworth is a harbourside town in Havant borough, Hampshire, at the head of Chichester Harbour on the River Ems. First recorded in 1216, it was a leading English oyster port until the 1902 typhoid outbreak that killed the Dean of Winchester closed its harbour.
Epsom
Epsom, Surrey, England: market town about 14 miles southwest of London, Saxon origins, 17th-century spa that gave its name to Epsom salts, and home of Epsom Downs Racecourse and The Derby; borough population 80,938 (2021).