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Whaley Bridge
Whaley Bridge (Weyley) is a small town in High Peak, Derbyshire, known for its 19th-century growth as a canal and railway terminus and its 2019 Toddbrook Reservoir evacuation.
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town and port in North Yorkshire, England, at the mouth of the River Esk. Known for Whitby Abbey, the 664 Synod of Whitby, Captain Cook's ships, and Bram Stoker's Dracula; population about 13,000.
Whitehaven
Whitehaven, Cumbria: a planned Georgian port town founded on coal exports to Ireland, once second only to London in tonnage, now a regeneration focus facing the Bransty Tunnel rail closure and orange harbour water.
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.
Wigan
Wigan: large town in Greater Manchester, England, historically in Lancashire; Roman settlement Coccium, 1246 charter, major coal ('Coalopolis') and cotton town, home of Wigan Warriors rugby league club and Wigan Athletic, known for pies and Wigan Pier.
Wilmslow
Wilmslow: mainly residential commuter town in Cheshire East, England, near Manchester; key service centre, population about 24,600, around 22 minutes by train to Manchester, known for affluence, quality shopping, and Green Belt surroundings.
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.
Withernsea
Withernsea is a small seaside town on the Holderness coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, about 23 miles east of Hull, with about 6,200 residents.
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.
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton, a West Midlands city in England's Black Country (founded as Wulfrun's Heantun, 985 AD), grew through canals, railways, and industry into a manufacturing center with city status since 2000.
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.
Worcester, England
Worcester, England: cathedral city on the River Severn in Worcestershire, West Midlands; about 103,900 residents (2021), over 1,000 listed buildings, first and last battles of the English Civil War, and home of Worcestershire sauce.
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.
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.
York
York (Eboracum, Eoforwic, Jorvik) is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, founded by Rome in AD 71, Viking capital until 954, home of York Minster, and now a major heritage tourist economy.