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"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
94,456
Hertfordshire
S
Stevenage
1947
120,549
West Sussex
C
Crawley
95,961
Hertfordshire
H
Hemel Hempstead
93,566
Essex
Harlow
25,766
Durham
N
Newton Aycliffe
1948
19,743
P
Peterlee
41,555
Hertfordshire
H
Hatfield
51,524
W
Welwyn Garden City
1949
115,964
Essex
B
Basildon
78,660
Berkshire
Bracknell
1950
68,164
Northamptonshire
C
Corby
1961
34,907
Lancashire
S
Skelmersdale
1963
156,896
Shropshire
T
Telford
1964
81,637
Worcestershire
R
Redditch
61,635
Cheshire
Runcorn
51,312
Tyne and Wear
W
Washington
1967
197,354
Buckinghamshire
M
Milton Keynes
190,584
Cambridgeshire
P
Peterborough
1968
243,511
Northamptonshire
N
Northampton
174,954
Cheshire
W
Warrington
1970
392,477
Central Lancashire
Scotland
1947
75,350
E
East Kilbride
1948
44,610
G
Glenrothes
1955
52,270
C
Cumbernauld
1962
66,290
L
Livingston
1966
37,380
I
Irvine
1973
5,590
Stonehouse
 
 
 
 
Wales
1949
47,091
C
Cwmbran
1967
10,882
N
Newtown
 
 
 
 
Northern Ireland
1965
72,000
C
Craigavon
1966
24,660
A
Antrim
1967
31,270
B
Ballymena
1969
90,000
D
Derry
1 Comments
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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.)