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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC): Inner London borough formed in 1965 by merging Kensington and Chelsea; smallest but densely populated London borough, home to South Kensington museums, marked by stark inequality and the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a spa town in western Kent, England, founded on the chalybeate spring discovered in 1606 at the Pantiles; it received its Royal prefix from Edward VII in 1909 and had about 59,000 residents in 2025.
Rye, East Sussex
Rye, East Sussex: historic former Cinque Port town on a sandstone outcrop at the Rother, Brede, and Tillingham confluence, once a major medieval port, now landlocked, heritage-focused, and flood-risk managed.
Sandwich, Kent
Sandwich is a small town in north-east Kent, England, on the River Stour about 3 km from the coast, and one of the five original Cinque Ports.
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks is an old market town in west Kent, England, about 30 miles from London, known for Knole House and timber-framed buildings from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is a town in Swale, Kent, England, on Milton Creek beside Roman Watling Street (A2). Known as a pilgrim and coaching stop, then for brickmaking (Smeed Dean) and Edward Lloyd's newsprint mill, closed 2007.
Slough
Slough, England, is a Berkshire town about 20 miles west of central London, known for the Slough Trading Estate, the largest business park in Europe under single ownership.
Southampton
Southampton, England's south-coast unitary-authority port city (pop. ~259,000), home to the UK's busiest cruise terminal and second largest container port, shaped by Titanic, Blitz and D-Day history and 2026–2028 devolution.
Staines-upon-Thames
Staines-upon-Thames, formerly Staines, is a market town in Spelthorne, Surrey, on the Thames. Roman Ad Pontes/Pontibus at the London–Silchester road crossing; Domesday Stanes; renamed Staines-upon-Thames in 2012.
Steyning
Steyning is a historic market town in Horsham District, West Sussex, at the foot of the South Downs. Known for its Norman church of St Andrew and St Cuthman, its market dating to Edward the Confessor, and its 1771 rebuilt Market House at 72 High Street.
Waterlooville
Waterlooville, Hampshire town in Havant borough, founded 1815 around the Heroes of Waterloo inn on the Portsmouth–Petersfield turnpike; grew fastest in Britain 1958–1973, no rail access, about 31,000 people.
West Blatchington
West Blatchington, former village north of Hove, East Sussex; site of a Roman basilican villa found 1818, excavated 1947 by Norris and Burstow, with 11 corn-drying ovens; only windmill and St Peter's Church survive.
Weybridge
Weybridge, Surrey town in Elmbridge where the River Wey meets the Thames; home of Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit (1907) and a major British aviation site, first English town wholly lit by electricity (1890).
Whitstable
Whitstable, Kent seaside town (Domesday Witenestaple), famous for oysters, the 1830 Crab and Winkle railway, Invicta locomotive, Deane brothers diving, working harbour, and the annual Oyster Festival.
Winchester
Winchester: Hampshire cathedral city, Roman Venta Belgarum and Anglo-Saxon capital of Wessex, home to Winchester Cathedral (founded 1079), about 45,000 residents, district population around 127,400, governed by Winchester City Council.
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor, Berkshire: Thames-side English town about 20 miles west of London, site of Windsor Castle, founded by William the Conqueror around 1070, the world's largest occupied castle, home of the Order of the Garter and a planned 12th-century town.
Woking
Woking, Surrey, is a commuter town about half an hour from London by rail, home to Britain's first purpose-built mosque and first crematorium, with 103,900 people at the 2021 census.
Woolstone
Woolstone, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire): village below White Horse Hill with a Roman villa found in 1844, mosaics, Saxon burials, a 1086 Domesday manor of Roger of Ivry and the Bishop of Winchester, and the Ridgeway trackway. Distinct from Woolaston, Gloucestershire.
Worplesdon
Worplesdon, Surrey village and civil parish near Guildford, in Domesday Book held by Turold of Earl Roger; known for Sibthorpe's Roman villa on Broad Street Common, found 1829, and St Mary's Grade 1 church.
Worthing
Worthing is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, which developed from a small fishing hamlet into a fashionable Georgian resort before being incorporated in 1890.