rickmiles85 Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 No it doesnt! not anymore. Its got a preston PR postcode but its comes under Merseyside! West Lancashire is pretty close but it stops on the outskirts of Southport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mer1002 Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 It's under lancashire on our database .. but thats BT for you ...Its probably because of the preston postcode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfitsboy Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Please see the SheffieldFirst Partnership website: http://www.sheffieldfirst.net/ Sheffield is a city of more than half a million people. It lies at the southern end of England's Pennine hills, within the county of Yorkshire on its border with the forests of Nottinghamshire and the Derbyshire Dales. It is Yorkshire's second largest city after Leeds, the regional capital. Sheffield ranks as the United Kingdom's fifth largest city, but because it is a free-standing city it forms only the eighth largest conurbation. If it is true that Leeds bloated its population figures by including small towns within it's LS postcode then Sheffield is INDEED larger than Leeds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickmiles85 Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 I think that is the case.... If we included areas within our postcode we could include most towns and villages from penistone, barsnley down to rotherham, chesterfield and villages in the peak district to dinnington and worksop. You speak to most people in Lancashire and indeed the country and ask what is the capital of yorkshire and people immediatly say "Steel City". http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/2004_sheff.html# "Built on seven hills and five rivers – the Don and its four tributaries, the Loxley, Rivelin, Porter and the Sheaf – Sheffield is the biggest city in Yorkshire and the fourth biggest in England. Its population is around 600,000" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielford99 Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Is it me or is anyone sick of hearing about Leeds. It is nowhere near as big as Sheffield. I work for Sheffield City Council and I know for a fact that Sheffield is the 4th Biggest City, Leeds doesn't even make the top 10. On the news and weather, papers, radio, they are always talking about Leeds. Ok Leeds City centre is a good night out and not bad for shopping (Harvey Nich's etc), but most of Leeds is one big tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simjns Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 london birmingham manchester sheffield when i was at uni we was told that sheffield was the forth largest city Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazz Posted July 18, 2004 Share Posted July 18, 2004 Originally posted by danielford99 Is it me or is anyone sick of hearing about Leeds. It is nowhere near as big as Sheffield. I work for Sheffield City Council and I know for a fact that Sheffield is the 4th Biggest City, Leeds doesn't even make the top 10. On the news and weather, papers, radio, they are always talking about Leeds. Ok Leeds City centre is a good night out and not bad for shopping (Harvey Nich's etc), but most of Leeds is one big tip. I can't agree more. It anooys me so much that yorkshire tv is based there so all we ever hear about is how wonderful leeds is- they are so biased when it comes to sport too- whenever united or wednesday won leeds there would be a fleeting mention and whenever leeds won it would be extended highlights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted July 18, 2004 Share Posted July 18, 2004 Ummm.. well in the Census results I recently saw (from memory), Leeds had 712,000 people living there compared to Sheffield's 530,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfitsboy Posted July 18, 2004 Share Posted July 18, 2004 The City of Leeds has a population of about 421,000 people. The 724,000 population figure takes in a much wider area, more than 520 sq km to be precise, which is roughly an area 24km by 24km, and you can safely say from this, that will take in towns surrounding Leeds like Dewsbury, Ossett, Garforth, Wakefield and Batley for instance, which are all separate towns and boroughs!! Please see link for details: http://www.leedsnet.com/gl//staticpages/index.php?page=20020905110837901 This is yet another example of Leeds cleverly marketing itself. If Sheffield was to use it's latest population of the metropolitan district of sheffield has it's total it would be 1,0783,17 which consists of: Sheffield - 513,234 Rotherham - 248,175 Barnsley - 218,063 Chesterfield - 98,845 Info from the National Statistics Office: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00cg.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Well I had the pleasure of watching the Sheffield First promotion video, and just about the first thing they say is that Sheffield is the UK's 5th largest city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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