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Chester
Chester is a cathedral city in Cheshire, north-west England, on the River Dee near the Welsh border, founded by the Romans as the fortress of Deva.
Chesterfield, England
Chesterfield, Derbyshire: largest market town in Derbyshire, England, founded as a Roman fort around 70 AD, known for the Crooked Spire, coal and railway heritage under George Stephenson, and reorganisation into a unitary council from 2028.
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.
Chippenham
Chippenham is a market town in northern Wiltshire, England, on the River Avon near the M4. A Saxon royal villa recorded from 853, chartered in 1554, it had 35,830 parish residents in 2011.
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.
Cirencester
Cirencester (Corinium Dobunnorum) is a Cotswolds market town in Gloucestershire, England, the second largest town of Roman Britain and 4th-century capital of Britannia Prima, later a medieval wool town of about 20,000 people.
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.
Clacton-on-Sea
Clacton-on-Sea is an Essex seaside resort founded in 1871 by engineer Peter Schuyler Bruff, linked to London by rail in 1882, the largest town in Tendring with over 53,000 people, and home to Grade II registered seafront gardens.
Clare, Suffolk
Clare, Suffolk: a small medieval market town in West Suffolk on the River Stour, known for Clare Castle, Clare Priory, its wool-trade heritage, and over 130 listed buildings.
Clun
Clun is a small town in south Shropshire, England, on the River Clun near the Welsh border, parish population 1,115 (2021). Known for Clun Castle, a Norman motte-and-bailey fortress of the de Say and Fitzalan families.
Coggeshall
Coggeshall is a historic wool town in Braintree district, Essex, on the River Blackwater. Founded around a 1140 abbey of King Stephen, it prospered in wool and cloth, retaining Grange Barn, Paycocke's House, and over 200 listed buildings.
Colchester
Colchester (Camulodunum) is a city in Essex, England, Britain's first Roman capital, site of Europe's largest Norman keep, population 192,700 in 2021, granted city status in 2022.
Coleford, Gloucestershire
Coleford, Gloucestershire: a market town of about 10,500 people in the Forest of Dean, three miles from the Welsh border. First recorded as Colevorde in 1275; noted for its Georgian Conservation Area, 1643 Civil War battle, Mushet family ironworks and Dennis Potter links.
Colerne
Colerne is a village and civil parish in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north Wiltshire, England, known locally as "the village on the hill".
Colne
Colne is a market town in Pendle, East Lancashire, England, historically a cotton-weaving town specializing in quality cloths, now known for independent shops, the Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival, and its regenerated Market Hall.
Combe Down
Combe Down is a plateau village situated 1.5 to 2 km south of Bath, Somerset, distinguished by its Roman villa and the Bath stone that supplied Georgian Bath.
Corby
Corby, Northamptonshire: Midlands steel town, New Town from 1950, 'Little Scotland'; Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks closed 1980; 2009 toxic waste birth-defect ruling; regeneration and 2025 New Town bid.
Coventry
Coventry is a city in England's West Midlands, built around a monastery founded in 1043 by Leofric and Lady Godiva, and a historic center of the British motor industry.
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.
Crewe
Crewe, Cheshire: railway town founded around the 1837 Grand Junction Railway station and Crewe Works (1843), a West Coast Main Line junction, later shaped by HS2's cancelled northern leg and ongoing regeneration.
Crewkerne
Crewkerne: South Somerset market town of about 7,300 people near the Dorset border; Saxon royal estate with minster and mint, Domesday market, sailcloth and webbing industry, Grade I St Bartholomew's church, and a Waterloo–Exeter railway station.
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.
Darlington
Darlington is a market town and unitary borough in southern County Durham, England, population under 100,000. Home of the 1825 Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world's first public steam railway, and the Pease family's civic legacy.
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.
Dartmouth, Devon
Dartmouth, Devon: a deep water port town at the mouth of the River Dart, a medieval wine-trade and military harbour, site of the 1243 tide-mill dam, a 1646 Civil War surrender, and a protected conservation area in the South Devon AONB.
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.
Derby
Derby: city and unitary authority on the River Derwent in the East Midlands, England; county town of Derbyshire. Population 274,100 (2024); home of the 1721 Silk Mill and the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
Doncaster
Doncaster, South Yorkshire city granted city status in the 2022 Platinum Jubilee honors (effective 1 November 2022); Roman fort Danum, GNR railway works that built Flying Scotsman and Mallard, home of the St Leger Stakes, population about 308,100 (2021).
Dorchester, Dorset
Dorchester, Dorset, the county town on the River Frome, is Roman Durnovaria and Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge: a walled Roman civitas capital of the Durotriges with eight museums, Maiden Castle nearby, and the Poundbury extension.