Places you've never been to - revisited!

[Ivo]

The ONS defines urban areas as been cut off from one-another when there are gaps of more than 200m, which is frankly ridiculous.

If we were to apply a more realistic limit of, say, 800m, what would be the limit of the London urban area? Would it reach all the way to Reading and Southend?

- Having asked this, I'm now going to try to find out.

EDIT: It looks like the definition needs to expand to one mile. 800m would not be enough to join Virginia Water to Ascot, or any of Romford/Brentwood/Billericay/Basildon, but it would bring Southend and Basildon together; a similar allowance would also bring Crawley into London. 800m might just about result in Harlow and St Albans merging with London though.

 

[hluraven]

(Lower league) Football takes you to all sorts of weird and wonderful places on earth.

Combination of lower league football, lower league ice hockey and Floorball account for many of mine as well.

London - Yes - live and work there but still never been to many of the big tourist attractions
Birmingham- Yes
Glasgow - Yes
Liverpool - Yes
Leeds - Passed through
Sheffield - Yes
Edinburgh - Yes
Bristol - Yes
Manchester- Yes (I think)
Leicester - Yes
Coventry - Yes
Kingston upon Hull - No
Bradford - No
Cardiff - Yes
Belfast - No
Stoke-on-Trent- Yes - Only place I have ever been mugged and I was only a couple of hours there.
Wolverhampton- No
Nottingham- Yes
Plymouth - Yes
Southampton- Yes
Reading- Passed through
Derby- Yes
Dudley- No
Newcastle upon Tyne- Yes
Northampton - Passed through
Portsmouth - Yes
Luton - Yes (if airport counts), passed through if not
Preston - Yes
Aberdeen - Passed through
Milton Keynes - Yes, only other place I have lived outside London

 

[Mojo]

From the top thirty list (in order): -

Leicester - only spent a short while there going to find somewhere to eat near the station
Belfast - never been to
Stoke/Trent - only changed trains
Southampton - only driven through/changed trains
Northampton - only changed trains
Luton - only driven through
Preston - only changed trains

 

[martinsh]

Regarding the top 30 - U've been to them all except Belfast (never been to NI)

But haven't been to Aberdeen since 1982, Hull since 1986, Portsmouth since 1987, and Plymouth since 1999.

In the past 12 months have been to 18 of them !

 

[IanD]

Well the only one of those I've been to (not counting passing though on the train - only where I have left the station) is Milton Keynes. Soulless pit that was (went for work training at Mercedes UK which needed an overnight)

Soulless pit is precisely right. Have to go up to visit my boyfriend a few times a month, walking through the "Little Boxes"-style suburbia is no better.

If you think MK is a soulless pit compared to half the places on this list then you've not really visited MK.

London - Yes
Birmingham- Yes
Glasgow - Yes
Liverpool - Yes
Leeds - Yes
Sheffield - Yes
Edinburgh - Yes
Bristol - Yes
Manchester- Yes
Leicester - Yes
Coventry - Yes (once spent 2 hours trying to get off the central ring road)
Kingston upon Hull - Yes (been many times but favourite was arriving on the last BR ferry from New Holland)
Bradford - Yes (Lived there for 20 years)
Cardiff - Yes
Belfast - No
Stoke-on-Trent- Yes
Wolverhampton- Yes
Nottingham- Yes
Plymouth - Yes
Southampton- Yes
Reading- Yes (Spent a week on a course, a real soulless pit)
Derby- Yes
Dudley- No
Newcastle upon Tyne- Yes (lived there for 3 years, great city)
Northampton - Yes (lived there for 5 years)
Portsmouth - Yes
Luton - Yes (awful place, spent a week there one day)
Preston - Yes
Aberdeen - Yes (much more pleasant than you'd imagine)
Milton Keynes - Yes (have lived on the outskirts for 19 years)

 

[D6975]

Blimey - there are only 4 places in the top 100 that I haven't been to, and I've passed through 3 of those without getting off/out.
Margate, Harlow, Hartlepool and Accrington.

 

[LE Greys]

Aberdeen - Yes (much more pleasant than you'd imagine)

Hear! Hear! (Says an Aberdeen alumnus).

Although Aberdeenshire is one of the nicest counties in Scotland.