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Dover
Dover (Kent, England): coastal town and ferry port in the river Dour valley, 21 miles from France. Busiest passenger ferryport; over 9 million passengers and 2 million freight vehicles in 2025; site of Dover Castle and the Bronze Age Boat.
Dudley
Dudley, West Midlands market town, heart of the Black Country; home of Dudley Castle (1070), Silurian limestone hills, industrial heritage, Metro extension, and Dudley Local Plan 2041.
Durham, England
Durham, England: cathedral city in County Durham on a River Wear peninsula, seat of the medieval Prince-Bishops, home to Durham Castle and Cathedral (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1986) and Durham University (1832).
Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a seaside town in East Sussex, England, on the English Channel coast between Brighton and Hastings, known for its Victorian seafront and Beachy Head.
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely, Cambridgeshire (Isle of Ely): England's second smallest cathedral city, founded around Etheldreda's monastery of c.673 on a Kimmeridge clay island in the Fens, home to Ely Cathedral's 14th-century Octagon and a growing Cambridge commuter city.
Emsworth
Emsworth is a harbourside town in Havant borough, Hampshire, at the head of Chichester Harbour on the River Ems. First recorded in 1216, it was a leading English oyster port until the 1902 typhoid outbreak that killed the Dean of Winchester closed its harbour.
Enfield, England
Enfield, England: historic market town in North London and centre of the London Borough of Enfield; market chartered 1303, about 330,000 residents, large industrial land base, Enfield Delivers growth plan to 2040.
Epsom
Epsom, Surrey, England: market town about 14 miles southwest of London, Saxon origins, 17th-century spa that gave its name to Epsom salts, and home of Epsom Downs Racecourse and The Derby; borough population 80,938 (2021).
Exeter
Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum, Escanceaster) is a Devon cathedral city on the River Exe: Roman walled town, Decorated Gothic cathedral with a 96 m vault, 130,700 residents (2021), and from 2028 the center of a new unitary council.
Fairford
Fairford: Cotswold market town on the River Coln, Gloucestershire, near Cirencester; known for St Mary's Church medieval stained glass and RAF Fairford, a US-operated bomber base hosting RIAT.
Fakenham
Fakenham is a market town on the River Wensum in North Norfolk, England, granted its market charter in 1250. Known for its Thursday Charter Market, Georgian Market Place shaped by fires of 1660, 1718, and 1738, and Britain's only intact surviving town gasworks, now a museum.
Falmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth (Cornish: Aberfala) is a port town and civil parish on Cornwall's south coast at the Fal estuary, founded after 1613, chartered 1661, Royal Mail packet station from 1688, home to the world's third-largest natural deep-water harbour, Falmouth Docks, and Falmouth University.
Farnborough, Hampshire
Farnborough is a town in Hampshire, England, southwest of London, best known as the birthplace of British aviation, where Samuel Cody made Britain's first official airplane flight in 1908.
Farnworth
Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, historically in Lancashire. Known for coal pits from 1611, underground canals to Worsley, a 1939 municipal borough, and the Farnworth Green regeneration.
Filey
Filey is a seaside town in North Yorkshire, England, on the North Sea coast between Scarborough and Flamborough Head, known for its late Roman signal station at Filey Brigg.
Fleetwood
Fleetwood, Lancashire: planned Victorian port and seaside town on the Wyre Peninsula, founded by Peter Hesketh; once England's third largest fishing port, now known for its dock fish industry, Fleetwood Market, and coastal flood defences.
Folkestone
Folkestone: coastal town in Kent, England (population about 50,000), former cross-channel ferry port and Victorian resort at the Channel Tunnel entrance, now known for the Folkestone Triennial, Creative Quarter, and the £22m A Brighter Future regeneration scheme.
Framlingham
Framlingham, Suffolk: an Anglo-Saxon-origin market town in East Suffolk, England, known for Framlingham Castle where Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen in 1553, its mere, schools, and Ed Sheeran connections.
Frinton-on-Sea
Frinton-on-Sea, Essex seaside resort on the Essex Sunshine Coast in Tendring District; planned late-19th-century railway resort for the upper-middle class, known for its sandy Blue Flag beach, beach huts, level crossing, and Frinton Summer Theatre.
Frome
Frome (pronounced "Froom") is a market town in eastern Somerset, England, founded around St Aldhelm's 7th-century monastery, once a major woollen cloth town, now known for independent shops, markets and the arts, population 28,569 (2021).
Gateshead
Gateshead: Tyne and Wear metropolitan borough on the south bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle; medieval borough under the Bishops of Durham, coal-mining and industrial town, now a culture-led regeneration area with BALTIC, the Glasshouse and Gateshead Quays.
Gillingham, England
Gillingham, England: a town in north west Kent, one of the five Medway towns on the Medway estuary. Birthplace of Will Adams, twinned with Ito and Yokosuka, Japan; former dockyard town of about 108,000 residents.
Glastonbury
Glastonbury, Somerset market town shaped by Glastonbury Abbey (wealthiest in Domesday 1086, burned 1184, dissolved 1539) and Glastonbury Tor; nearby Worthy Farm hosts the Glastonbury Festival, distinct from the town itself.
Gloucester
Gloucester, cathedral city in Gloucestershire, south west England, on the River Severn; Roman colonia Glevum, site of the 1643 Civil War siege, Gloucester Cathedral, and major regeneration projects.
Godalming
Godalming: historic market town in south-west Surrey, England, on the River Wey, about 22,000 inhabitants. Former wool-trade borough chartered in 1575; first British town with public electricity, 1881.
Grantham
Grantham is a market town in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, on the River Witham near the Nottinghamshire border. Known for St Wulfram's 282.5 ft spire, Newton's schooling, Thatcher's birthplace, and its engineering and coaching heritage.
Grassington
Grassington is a market town in Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire Dales National Park, England, about 8 miles north of Skipton. Known for its cobbled square, Grassington Moor lead mining remains, scheduled monument 1018333, and as TV's Darrowby in All Creatures Great and Small.
Gravesend
Gravesend is a historic riverside town in Gravesham, Kent, on the south bank of the Thames opposite Tilbury. Recorded as Gravesham in Domesday Book, a ferry port with royal ferry rights, New Tavern Fort, Fastrack transit and major town centre regeneration.
Grays
Grays, historically Grays Thurrock, is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England, on the northern bank of the River Thames about 21 miles from London, and the largest town in the borough.
Great Malvern
Great Malvern is a Worcestershire spa town that grew around a Benedictine priory founded in 1085, dissolved under Henry VIII, and revived by the 19th-century water cure, railway, and Grade I priory church.