100 Biggest Cities of the United Kingdom Before the Black Death

With the help of a map, can you name every English-controlled and Scottish-controlled city that had an estimated population of at least 2,000 before the Black Death's arrival in June of 1348?

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Pop.	City
65,000	London
30,000	Bordeaux
16,000	Bristol
15,000	York
13,000	Norwich
12,000	Calais
12,000	Coventry
12,000	Plymouth
11,000	Dublin
10,000	Canterbury
10,000	Great Yarmouth
10,000	Winchester
9,000	Lincoln
8,000	Berwick-upon-Tweed
8,000	Gloucester
8,000	King's Lynn
8,000	Newcastle-upon-Tyne
8,000	Salisbury
7,000	Beverley
7,000	Boston
7,000	Colchester
7,000	Oxford
6,000	Bury St. Edmunds
6,000	Cambridge
6,000	Exeter
6,000	Hereford
6,000	Shrewsbury
5,000	Aberdeen
5,000	Armagh
5,000	Bayonne
5,000	Downpatrick
5,000	Ipswich
5,000	Stamford
4,000	Ely

Pop.	City
4,000	Kingston upon Hull
4,000	Northampton
4,000	Nottingham
4,000	St.‑Jean‑d’Angély
4,000	Scarborough
4,000	Worcester
3,000	Barking
3,000	Barton upon Humber
3,000	Chester
3,000	Cirencester
3,000	Dax
3,000	Derby
3,000	Drogheda
3,000	Durham
3,000	Huntingdon
3,000	Kilkenny
3,000	Leicester
3,000	Lichfield
3,000	Limerick
3,000	Ludlow
3,000	New Ross
3,000	Newark-on-Trent
3,000	Peterborough
3,000	Pontefract
3,000	Reading
3,000	Sandwich
3,000	Southampton
3,000	Spalding
3,000	St. Andrews
3,000	Sudbury
3,000	Waterford
3,000	Winchelsea
2,000	Bampton

Pop.	City
2,000	Barnstaple
2,000	Bath
2,000	Bedford
2,000	Berkhamsted
2,000	Boulogne-sur-Mer
2,000	Bridgnorth
2,000	Bridgwater
2,000	Cardiff
2,000	Chichester
2,000	Cork
2,000	Croydon
2,000	Doncaster
2,000	Dover
2,000	Dundalk
2,000	Dundee
2,000	Edinburgh
2,000	Galway
2,000	Glasgow
2,000	Grimsby
2,000	Maidstone
2,000	Manchester
2,000	Monpazier
2,000	Mont‑de‑Marsan
2,000	Newbury
2,000	Penrith
2,000	Perth
2,000	Rochester
2,000	St. Albans
2,000	Taunton
2,000	Thetford
2,000	Wakefield
2,000	Warwick
2,000	Wells