Statistics for UK Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions #2

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After the fire of 1666, a number of plans were drawn up to remodel the City and its street pattern into a renaissance-style city with planned urban blocks, squares and boulevards	London	100%
The University of ______ was founded in 1209. The buildings of the university include King's College Chapel	Cambridge	92%
The Old Firm rivalry between Celtic and Rangers	Glasgow	92%
Appearing in the town's Roman name, Aquae Sulis (literally, "the waters of Sulis")	Bath	88%
This pilgrimage provided the framework for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century collection of stories, The ______ Tales	Canterbury	81%
Was dubbed "Cottonopolis" and "Warehouse City" during the Victorian era	Manchester	81%
The Mackem accent and dialect is often mistaken for Geordie by people not from the region	Sunderland	81%
36 miles (58 km) northeast of Plymouth and 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Bristol	Exeter	77%
Nicknames: "Granite City"	Aberdeen	73%
The character of Alan Partridge in the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge (1997–2002) and the comedy film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013) is a ______ broadcaster played by Steve Coogan.	Norwich	73%
The city has more miles of canal than Venice	Birmingham	69%
The Gower Peninsula to the west was the first area in the United Kingdom to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)	Swansea	69%
The first and former capital city of England	Winchester	69%
from Cumbric: Caer Luel; Scots: Cairel, Cairl, Caeril; Scottish Gaelic: Cathair Luail	Carlisle	65%
MediaCityUK became the headquarters of CBBC and BBC Sport in 2011	Salford	65%
Founded as Eboracum c. 71 AD	York	62%
The club won just one out of 38 league games and finished with just 11 points, the lowest in the history of the Premier League	Derby	58%
Proverbially it is the strategically important "Gateway to the Highlands"	Stirling	58%
MP Caroline Lucas is the only Green MP in the UK Parliament	Brighton	50%
One of the founder members of the Football League and the first team to be crowned English football champions	Preston	50%
Becoming a major centre for the production and trading of wool in the 17th and 18th centuries	Leeds	38%
It was originally an outlying part of the hamlet of Myton, named Wyke	Hull	27%
Since the inception of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, residents of the Republic of Ireland have increasingly been cross-border shopping to ______ to buy cheaper goods due to the difference in currency	Newry	27%
John Frost and 3,000 other Chartists marched on the Westgate Hotel at the centre of the town	Newport	15%