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Biggest Cities of Northern England before the Industrial Revolution

Northern England is home to many large historical industrial towns, though this was not always the case. Can you name the 40 most populous cities of the North in 1662, roughly a century before the Industrial Revolution?
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Population estimates according to John Langton.
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Population
Cities
14,201
York
11,617
Newcastle upon Tyne
6,600
Kingston upon Hull
5,849
Chester
5,730
Kendal
3,860
Carlisle
3,501
Leeds
3,180
Beverley
2,983
Gateshead
2,760
Nantwich
2,580
Berwick-upon-Tweed
2,490
Macclesfield
2,356
Manchester
2,223
Durham
Population
Cities
2,180
Scarborough
2,050
Sheffield
1,980
Whitby
1,970
Halifax
1,950
Wigan
1,920
Ashton-under-Lyne
1,870
Kirkby Lonsdale
1,840
Congleton
1,830
Bolton
1,760
Doncaster
1,760
Wakefield
1,700
Preston
1,700
Warrington
Population
Cities
1,690
Ambleside
1,670
Kirkby Stephen
1,500
Bridlington
1,460
Bury
1,440
Pontefract
1,440
Ripon
1,403
Darlington
1,380
Richmond
1,303
Stockport
1,210
Liverpool
1,210
Malton
1,198
Stockton-on-Tees
1,170
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2 Comments
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Level 65
Nov 15, 2024
God those Westmorland towns are tricky. Makes you realise why it's such a tiny county today.
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Level 55
Nov 15, 2024
Kendal was the 20th largest town within the entire Kingdom of England at the time. Nowadays the town only has about 30,000 people and doesn't even make it into the top 200 largest towns within the UK.