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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.
Tamworth, Staffordshire
Tamworth, Staffordshire: a market town and borough north-east of Birmingham, once the Mercian capital under Aethelflaed, divided between Staffordshire and Warwickshire, and centered on its Norman motte-and-bailey castle, now a museum undergoing a £1.9m restoration.
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.
Telford
Telford is a Shropshire new town, designated as Dawley New Town in 1963 and renamed in 1968 after engineer Thomas Telford, built on reclaimed East Shropshire coalfield land and containing the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site.
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.
Wakefield
Wakefield: cathedral city in West Yorkshire on the River Calder, a medieval 'Merrie City' and inland port for coal, corn, and wool; birthplace of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
Wallasey
Wallasey is a town on the Wirral, Merseyside, opposite Liverpool; recorded in Domesday 1086, a dormitory town grown around the Seacombe, Egremont and New Brighton Mersey ferries and New Brighton resort.
Wallsend
Wallsend, a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, on the River Tyne's north bank. Named for the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall at Segedunum Roman fort; later a coal mining and shipbuilding center undergoing town centre regeneration.
Walsall
Walsall, a West Midlands market town in the Black Country, England, famed for saddlery and leather goods; also called the home of The Saddlers. Known for its leather museum, medieval market, and Sister Dora statue.
Warrington
Warrington is a market town and unitary borough in Cheshire, England, on the River Mersey between Liverpool and Manchester. Known for Roman Wilderspool, its medieval market, the wire industry ('The Wire'), New Town status, and 215,425 residents (2025 estimate).
Warwick
Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon. Founded as a Saxon burh in 914 by Ethelfleda, it is distinguished from Warwick Castle (built 1068) and from Warwick, Bermuda.
Washington, Tyne and Wear
Washington, Tyne, and Wear: a New Town in the City of Sunderland designated 24 July 1964, built around mining villages, home to Washington Old Hall of George Washington's family and Nissan's Sunderland plant; Metro extension planned by 2033.
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.
Watford
Watford: town and non-metropolitan district (E07000103) in South West Hertfordshire, north of London. Population ~102,200 (2021), +13.2% since 2011; 12th-century market charter, railway since 1837, elected-mayor borough to merge in 2028.
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.
Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, is the world's second Garden City, founded 1920 by Ebenezer Howard, masterplanned by Louis de Soissons, designated a New Town in 1948, known for its Parkway and neo-Georgian architecture.
Wendens Ambo
Wendens Ambo is a village of about 400 people in Uttlesford, Essex, formed on 23 March 1662 by uniting the Domesday parishes of Great and Little Wenden; the name means "both Wendens".
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.
West Bridgford
West Bridgford is a town on the south bank of the River Trent opposite Nottingham, in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire. Recorded as Brigeforde in Domesday, it grew from a Musters-family village into an urban district (1894-1974) and county administrative centre.
West Bromwich
West Bromwich: largest town of Sandwell borough in the Black Country, West Midlands; home of West Bromwich Albion (The Hawthorns, the Baggies), a Black Country Strategic Centre, with 36,400 jobs and a 2022 regeneration masterplan.
West Drayton
West Drayton is a town in the London Borough of Hillingdon, west of central London, paired with Yiewsley and served by the Elizabeth line since 2022.
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.
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).
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.