John Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 I keep reading that Sheffield is the 5th largest city from some posters in here. I've always remembered it as being the 4th largest city, did someone beat it (Leeds maybe?) or was it always 5th? Do a search on google Sheffield 4th largest city And Sheffield 5th largest city The following results were returned 4th = 5,250 5th = 4,920 Any explanation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_W Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 According to figures on this site http://www.demographia.com/db-ukcities.htm Englands top seven cities in terms of population are: 1 London 2 Birmingham 3 Leeds 4 Sheffield 5 Liverpool 6 Manchester (Not Greater Manchester) 7 Newcastle This means Sheffield is 4th unless you count Manchester as Greater Manchester then Sheffield is the fifth largest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidla Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 There's loads of conflicting stats out there though, I've read that it's the 3rd largest city before now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_W Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 True Sidla, the conflicting stats sometimes put us as as having a bigger population than Leeds ? These sites http://populations.com and http://www.upmystreet.com/ give quite different statistics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted April 22, 2003 Author Share Posted April 22, 2003 I would have thought that the size of a city is measured by its boundary, i.e., surface area, as appose to the number of people to determine the city size as it is a constant value. I believe, if i am correct, the Tory Government changed the boundary in a clever way to merge Tory stronghold with a Labour stonghold, that wasn't as strong, so that they have a better chance of winning more seat at the election . (Could be true, but then I could have read some crap about this on the internet someplace.) Which lead me to believe that Leeds got bigger this way which is why I wrote the original posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cycleracer Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 London Manchester Birmingham Bristol Sheffield Leeds Newcastle I believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPG Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 bristol is smaller than sheffield definatly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cycleracer Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 You may be correct there though Sheffield is the hillyist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPG Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 Originally posted by "The Cycleracer" You may be correct there though Sheffield is the hillyist easily! thers only 2 in bristol as far as i know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takumi Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 uni of shef... says that it is the 4th biggest city.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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