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RE: St Davids - the UK's smallest city with a population of just 1,600 !

in Worldmappin2 years ago

Oh gosh, you should see some of the houses over here that religious leaders live in. It is ridiculous! This looks like a really cool place. So there are locations that are under 1600 people, but they don't have a church so they are like a village or something like that? Very interesting!

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Aye - It was an rule here in the olden days that a city was defined as a settlement that had a cathedral (it had to be a cathedral, not a church, monastery, etc) - another example that was quite small but had a cathedral was Kirkwall in the Orkney islands - and it was also considered a city in the past. Its quite an interesting rule, and clearly does not work with St Davids, but they enacted it recently again more from a tourism marketing ploy - which I think is a good reason.
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Thanks for the great info.