"New Towns" of the UK

Name the cities and towns of the UK that were designated as 'new towns' in the postwar period. Some of these towns were built nearly from scratch, while others were pre-existing towns that were developed and expanded.
Towns are listed in order of the date they were designated; the middle column gives their 2021 populations (according to citypopulation.de). Ceremonial counties are given to help with the English towns.
Excluding Stonehouse (de-designated three years after its designation) and Central Lancashire (designated as a new town, but was in reality more of a regional development project than a program of new town-building).
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England
1946
94 k
Hertfordshire
S
Stevenage
1947
121 k
West Sussex
C
Crawley
96 k
Hertfordshire
H
Hemel Hempstead
94 k
Essex
H
Harlow
26 k
Durham
N
Newton Aycliffe
1948
20 k
Durham
P
Peterlee
42 k
Hertfordshire
H
Hatfield
52 k
Hertfordshire
W
Welwyn Garden City
1949
116 k
Essex
B
Basildon
79 k
Berkshire
B
Bracknell
1950
68 k
Northamptonshire
C
Corby
1961
35 k
Lancashire
S
Skelmersdale
1963
157 k
Shropshire
T
Telford
1964
82 k
Worcestershire
R
Redditch
62 k
Cheshire
R
Runcorn
51 k
Tyne and Wear
W
Washington
1967
197 k
Buckinghamshire
M
Milton Keynes
191 k
Cambridgeshire
P
Peterborough
1968
244 k
Northamptonshire
N
Northampton
175 k
Cheshire
W
Warrington
1970
392 k
Central Lancashire
Scotland
1947
75 k
E
East Kilbride
1948
45 k
G
Glenrothes
1955
52 k
C
Cumbernauld
1962
66 k
L
Livingston
1966
37 k
I
Irvine
1973
6 k
Stonehouse
 
 
 
 
Wales
1949
47 k
C
Cwmbran
1967
11 k
N
Newtown
 
 
 
 
Northern Ireland
1965
72 k
C
Craigavon
1966
25 k
A
Antrim
1967
31 k
B
Ballymena
1969
90 k
D
Derry
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Level 62
Dec 5, 2023
Nice one; how about Erskine? (Don't know if it had the same official designation as the others.)