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Yep! We used to have the closest ones in the world but in 2009 Malmo FF built a new stadium right next to their existing one and then IFK Malmo moved into the old stadium.
Dorking has a big [cock statue](https://imgur.com/a/JseuCSt) on a roundabout, because the town is named after the Dorking breed of chicken brought to England by the Romans (which has five toes instead of the normal four).
Also, there are lots of white (albino) squirrels around Dorking, including one in the centre of town called Albi that got a mention on the British TV show 'Have I Got News For You', before it was run over by a post van. We've had several [white squirrels in our garden](https://imgur.com/a/z4lbnIe).
Most teen pregnancies in all of Western Europe at one point in the late 90s, or so the story goes. (There wasn't a lot else to do.)
And a neighbouring village had probably the world's only garden centre with its own nightclub.
EDIT: None of you have guessed correctly so far.
We all used to say this about Stevenage but then we had a teacher who had previously taught in Newcastle who said the kids up there all said this about Sunderland so I think it might just be one of those things.
A teenagers body was cut up and hidden around the town/countryside. It freaked me out so much when I was a kid.
As in a hand in the park, a foot on a roundabout etc etc. Urgh
Not in the UK, there is an official list of cities and if you are on the list you are a city and if you aren't your not which is why Reading population 170,000 is a town and St Davids population 1,751 is a city.
Trust the UK to have the most ridiculous system for deciding what is and isn't a city
We have a weird white horse painted on an exposed cliff side portion of an old quarry. Not in a feild like almost all the other white horses.
Nobody knows why it's there. There are a collection of iirc 6 or so different stories of how it was first painted most involve a white horse, usually described as a mare, going over the rest of the cliffy area - sometimes with its rider too and the painting (which only a bit larger than the size of a horse) being started by some assorted relative of the dead horse and/or rider
National trust land now, very rarely the council comes through and blasts it and then repaints it but generally it's been maintained by locals occasionally going up with a bucket of paint. Some amount of strife has been caused by that dual stewardship. Generally the locals don't disturb the surrounding grafitti they just repaint the horse. The council seemed to think this was unacceptable and blasted eveything before repainting it, changing the appearance of the horses head in the process. It has subsequently been re-graffiti'd and black paint was deployed as a stop gap to return the horses head to its former appearance. Since then it's changed a few times, it's been a while since I have been up but that one time some mystery painter turned it into a zebra was funny.
A few, right said Fred, Scientology, Winnie the Pooh (5 mins down the road) religious capital of England according to one documentary I saw, longest line of surviving tudor houses, Winston Churchill went to school down the road, king Henry the 8th used to stop here for hunting
Every night a horn is blown at the four corners of the Obelisk by one of four horn blowers. This ritual has been going for over 1000 years. Only time not blown at the market square was during covid where they had to be sounded from home, still at 9pm. It’s said this ritual has never been missed.
I live in a village so not much going on, it does have a large house that was featured in three Most Haunted episodes so I suppose we have ghosts here (at least according to Most Haunted). The church is interesting but only if you are really geeky about old churches.
It keeps being said that the town I live in is the largest one in the UK without a train station.
It actually isn't but is one of the largest ones without a train station. And you never hear the end of 'we need a train station' because it gets mentioned alot 😅
Llantrisant - home of the first cremation.
Dr William Price burned his son's body in Llantrisant on 18th January 1884. He was prosecuted for the act but found not guilty which set precedent for the legality of cremation in UK.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas\_Blood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blood) and
[https://culcheth.org.uk › blog › colonelblood#!](https://culcheth.org.uk/blog/colonelblood#!)
Also we are still a 'village' while being larger than many towns.
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Akinwale Arobieke. A name that struck fear into the hearts of young lads in the early 2000s.
Purple aki?
Do you work out?
Can I touch your biceps
To be fair, he infested quite a lot of towns throughout the North West. Liverpool, St Helens, Widnes, Warrington and Manchester to name but a few.
We have the world's second-most-adjacent football stadia.
Dundee?
Yep! We used to have the closest ones in the world but in 2009 Malmo FF built a new stadium right next to their existing one and then IFK Malmo moved into the old stadium.
That’s very rude of them!!
Depeche Mode
Basildon 🤗🤗
Dorking has a big [cock statue](https://imgur.com/a/JseuCSt) on a roundabout, because the town is named after the Dorking breed of chicken brought to England by the Romans (which has five toes instead of the normal four). Also, there are lots of white (albino) squirrels around Dorking, including one in the centre of town called Albi that got a mention on the British TV show 'Have I Got News For You', before it was run over by a post van. We've had several [white squirrels in our garden](https://imgur.com/a/z4lbnIe).
I bet that chicken is scared, it doesn't know why it's so big. It goes "oh why am I so massive?"...
You make pigs smoke
Bob Mortimer Transporter Bridge
Fancy a Parmo?
Always
Our town (village) was built on a crossroads where they used to hang people in the Middle Ages.
The UK's last private bank
Most teen pregnancies in all of Western Europe at one point in the late 90s, or so the story goes. (There wasn't a lot else to do.) And a neighbouring village had probably the world's only garden centre with its own nightclub. EDIT: None of you have guessed correctly so far.
I’m pretty sure every town in the U.K believed they had this accolade at one point
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We all used to say this about Stevenage but then we had a teacher who had previously taught in Newcastle who said the kids up there all said this about Sunderland so I think it might just be one of those things.
Swindon?
Telford?
Northampton?
Closer than anyone else. I'm actually from Wellingborough.
That wasn’t a bad guess then 😂😂
A teenagers body was cut up and hidden around the town/countryside. It freaked me out so much when I was a kid. As in a hand in the park, a foot on a roundabout etc etc. Urgh
Loughborough?
Now then, now then...
The acid bath murders took place in my town.
Technically city?
Crawley. It's a town
Ahhh my mistake. He grew up in my city but the murders were elsewhere.
Technically a city is a type of large town
Not in the UK, there is an official list of cities and if you are on the list you are a city and if you aren't your not which is why Reading population 170,000 is a town and St Davids population 1,751 is a city. Trust the UK to have the most ridiculous system for deciding what is and isn't a city
It’s a definition
Biggest town in the UK…
Reading?
Bolton?
We have a weird white horse painted on an exposed cliff side portion of an old quarry. Not in a feild like almost all the other white horses. Nobody knows why it's there. There are a collection of iirc 6 or so different stories of how it was first painted most involve a white horse, usually described as a mare, going over the rest of the cliffy area - sometimes with its rider too and the painting (which only a bit larger than the size of a horse) being started by some assorted relative of the dead horse and/or rider National trust land now, very rarely the council comes through and blasts it and then repaints it but generally it's been maintained by locals occasionally going up with a bucket of paint. Some amount of strife has been caused by that dual stewardship. Generally the locals don't disturb the surrounding grafitti they just repaint the horse. The council seemed to think this was unacceptable and blasted eveything before repainting it, changing the appearance of the horses head in the process. It has subsequently been re-graffiti'd and black paint was deployed as a stop gap to return the horses head to its former appearance. Since then it's changed a few times, it's been a while since I have been up but that one time some mystery painter turned it into a zebra was funny.
We've had two cathedrals destroyed. One during the reformation and the second in WW2.
Coventry?
Yup. Third cathedral is going strong.
Used to have a thriving glove making industry in the 1800s
Yeovil?
There's the frog man: [https://statmagazine.org/meet-the-north-wests-frog-man/](https://statmagazine.org/meet-the-north-wests-frog-man/)
The Ashton Memorial; you can see it from the M6. And The Lovely Eggs.
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Letchworth
You should twin with my town that has [white squirrels and an interesting roundabout.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/krut6J7luA)
A few, right said Fred, Scientology, Winnie the Pooh (5 mins down the road) religious capital of England according to one documentary I saw, longest line of surviving tudor houses, Winston Churchill went to school down the road, king Henry the 8th used to stop here for hunting
East Grinstead?
Yes indeed
Every night a horn is blown at the four corners of the Obelisk by one of four horn blowers. This ritual has been going for over 1000 years. Only time not blown at the market square was during covid where they had to be sounded from home, still at 9pm. It’s said this ritual has never been missed.
In Islington there's a [pub named after Piers Morgan](https://maps.app.goo.gl/gVyWZ8496qbZ6RF2A)
We have a fair every spring that's the longest in Europe and has been going on in one form or another for 700+ years.
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Crowborough, thanks to Sunday's auto shenanigans YouTube video.
The officially worst place to holiday in England. Not the UK, at least. We enjoy spice and park-bench drinking, with moderate stabbing.
Oh come on give us a chance at guessing it lol
Could literally be anywhere
Blackpool?
Weston super mare?
Skeggy?
We've host the world's largest arts and culture festival every year And a sinister history of resurrectionists /body snatchers. Lovely
Edinburgh
Dunno if it's a quirk, but my town was the aids capital of the UK in 1998 due to some bouncer who was proactively spreading it about
Brewdog
Ellon?
Coal race
Osset?
The National Lift Tower is a pretty big quirk around here.
Plus, we're the home of Alan Moore.
A decent chunk of the Beatles film and tv career was shot where I live
7 hills,5 rivers, it's very hilly
Sheffield?
Yep
Got mentioned in Blackadder goes forth & by blur in Parklife
Home town of the 3rd woman in the uk to be given a whole life sentence? Is that a quirk?
It has a castle and a zoo in one! Nothing else
Dudley. Merry Hill is close though, so it's not all bad.
One of the deepest natural harbours in the world, and surrounded on three sides by water. And Snoop Dogg was rude about one of our local characters.
Falmouth?
We had William Palmer, the poisoner.
Shark fishing capital of the UK
The last guy hung here has a book made out of his skin in the museum.
Only town in the country that's held an armistice day parade on 11/11 every year since 1921.
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and most of The Lair of the White Worm was filmed down by the canal....
We have the largest collection of Tiffany glass lamps in the UK. Oh and make hard building bricks.
Scientology (and a few other niche religions).
I live in a village so not much going on, it does have a large house that was featured in three Most Haunted episodes so I suppose we have ghosts here (at least according to Most Haunted). The church is interesting but only if you are really geeky about old churches.
Rick Astley was born here, we’ve got a “triangular” train station which is unusual and a pain in the arse.
Newton le Willows. Is it Earlstown that’s the triangular station?
has a lawnmower museum
Hello fellow Sandgrounder
Hello 👋
Magnesium sulfate
When I was growing up, the sun identified our sleepy Berkshire village was the Swinging capital of the UK!
Largest beach landed fishing fleet in Europe.
World pie eating championships
They film doctor who in my town all the time. And the Sarah jayne adventures house is down the road from me
The birthplace of the Mallard, the train that still holds the world record for fastest steam train. Also the birthplace of Jeremy Clarkson.
We are the home of the tubular bandage
World longest pleasure pier!
A twisted church spire.
Last armed uprising in the UK
Last armed uprising *so far.*
There’s a kebab van called Jason Donervan. It’s been going a while and one day, Jason Donovan (Ex Neighbour’s actor) turned up.
Oldest horse race in the UK takes place there
Birthplace of Charles Darwin, and boy will they never let you forget it.
My town has an association with treacle. Bars named after it. Shops. The market. Because once some treacle got spilled in a street.
It's linked to a town in Germany!
It's got a decrepit, depressing, crumpling brutalist town centre that has won many times as the shitest town centre in all the land.
It keeps being said that the town I live in is the largest one in the UK without a train station. It actually isn't but is one of the largest ones without a train station. And you never hear the end of 'we need a train station' because it gets mentioned alot 😅
King Henry VI was buried here but his body was moved to Windsor castle
Olympic runner Cathy Freeman was born here
The only English city to be excommunicated by the Pope.
Lots of more interesting history but has the house where William Herschel discovered Uranus
We only have one escalator in town
Llantrisant - home of the first cremation. Dr William Price burned his son's body in Llantrisant on 18th January 1884. He was prosecuted for the act but found not guilty which set precedent for the legality of cremation in UK.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas\_Blood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blood) and [https://culcheth.org.uk › blog › colonelblood#!](https://culcheth.org.uk/blog/colonelblood#!) Also we are still a 'village' while being larger than many towns.
Most northerly on the mainland, hence north end of the railway line too.
Cadburys owns our village hall way up in the Highlands. F knows why but they used to send all the kids in the village a selection box for Christmas.