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Poole
Poole is a coastal town in Dorset, England, on Poole Harbour, one of Europe's largest natural harbours. Formerly the Borough of Poole, since 2019 it sits within BCP Council; a new Poole Town Council is being created.
Porthleven
Porthleven, Cornwall's most southerly port, is a town on Mount's Bay built around a refuge harbour authorized by the 1811 Act of Parliament, opened 16 August 1825, later run by Harvey & Co, with a pilchard fishing and boatbuilding past and a storm-famous clock tower.
Salisbury
Salisbury (New Sarum) is a cathedral city in southern Wiltshire, England, founded in 1217 when the see moved from Old Sarum hillfort; its 1220–1258 cathedral has England's tallest spire at 404 ft and an original Magna Carta.
Seaton
Seaton is a coastal town in East Devon, England, on the Axe estuary, known for its Roman settlement at Honeyditches and a 22,000-coin hoard found in 2014.
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia) is a Cornish seaside town and former pilchard and tin port, famed for its beaches, the Tate St Ives gallery, the Barbara Hepworth Museum, the 1887 St Erth branch line, and acute second-home housing pressure.
Stow-on-the-Wold
Stow-on-the-Wold: hilltop Cotswold market town in Gloucestershire, England, about 2,000 people, the highest Cotswold town at 800 feet on the Fosse Way, known for its wool-trade square, the 1646 Battle of Stow, and St Edward's Church yew door.
Stroud
Stroud is a Cotswold market town in Gloucestershire, England, once the center of a woollen cloth industry producing cloth known as Strouds, served by the 1779 Stroudwater Canal, and named the Sunday Times best place to live in the UK in 2021.
Swindon
Swindon is a large town in north-east Wiltshire, England, that grew around the Great Western Railway works opened in 1843 and closed in 1986; population about 233,400 at Census 2021.
Taunton
Taunton, Somerset's county town on the River Tone, first recorded in 722; a Bishop of Winchester borough chartered in 1136, now a Garden Town with Firepool regeneration and major flood defense schemes.
Tiverton
Tiverton, Devon market town on the River Exe; site of the Bolham Hill Roman auxiliary fort (1.4 ha, scheduled 1990), Tiverton Castle founded 1106 for Richard de Redvers, and nearby Cranmore Castle hillfort.
Tockington
Tockington, Gloucestershire (Tocca's tun), a South Gloucestershire village in Olveston parish, site of a large Roman courtyard villa at Tockington Park Farm excavated in 1887-8 by Sir John McLean, with a Domesday manor held by King William in 1086.
Torquay
Torquay, Devon, England: seaside resort town in Torbay on the English Riviera, known for Kents Cavern, Torre Abbey (1196), its 1848 railway, Victorian resort heyday, and ongoing harbourside regeneration; distinct from Torquay, Victoria, Australia.
Totnes
Totnes is a historic market town in South Hams, Devon, at the lowest bridging point of the River Dart, population 10,419 (2021). Known for its Norman castle, Saxon burh origins, and as the founding site of the Transition Towns movement in 2006.
Truro
Truro (Cornish Truru) is Cornwall's only city and its administrative centre, at the head of the Fal Estuary. Chartered about 1175, a stannary town, cathedral city since 1876-1910, population 19,395 (2021).
Uley
Uley is a village in Gloucestershire, England, about 7.5 miles south of Stroud, known for the Iron Age hillfort Uley Bury and a Roman temple of Mercury.
Wellington, Somerset
Wellington, Somerset: a market town in the Tone vale, chartered in 1215 by the Bishops of Wells, tied to the Duke of Wellington's estates and the Fox Brothers Tonedale Mills and Grade II Tone Works textile sites.
Wells, Somerset
Wells, Somerset: England's smallest city, a cathedral city on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills with a 2021 parish population of 11,145, named for the springs in the Bishop's Palace grounds, chartered by King John in 1201.
Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare, a Severn Estuary seaside resort in North Somerset, England; Victorian resort grown from the 1841 railway, Grand Pier and Birnbeck Pier, 14 m tidal range, ongoing seafront regeneration.
Weymouth, Dorset
Weymouth, Dorset: seaside town and port at the mouth of the River Wey, formed from medieval Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, united in 1571; resort since George III's 1789 visit, 2012 Olympic sailing venue, population about 52,000.
Yeovil
Yeovil is a South Somerset town of about 45,000, recorded in Domesday Book as Givele, historically a glove-making market town and since 1935 a helicopter-industry center via Westland Aircraft, now undergoing town centre regeneration.