This is a common misconception that I stumbled upon a few months ago. - The cathedral requirement was only to the 19th Century. - Size does not matter.

This is a common misconception that I stumbled upon a few months ago. - The cathedral requirement was only to the 19th Century. - Size does not matter. For example St Davids is a city with only 1,600 inhabitants - A city in the UK is a place that has been granted city status by the monarch. - You can loose city status for similar arbitrary reasons - London is not even a fucking city in this system! UK city definition is perhaps one of the dumbest concepts in the UK due to its disparity with the populations expectation of actual criteria. Sources: - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13841482 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom