Talk:East Midlands

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[edit] Lincoln

Lincoln is listed as a town when it is actually a city in the East Midlands

Moved into the city list, as the Lincoln, Lincolnshire page shows Lincoln as a city. Feel free to make changes yourself though - that is what Wikipedia is about! (NB please sign your discussion posts with ~~~~ to show who made the comments and when). NickF 20:32, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Lincoln, although it is technically a city, is really an overgrown market town, and the idea that it should be in the 1st paragraph but northampton shouldn't is surely an idea of someone from Lincoln. have changed wording. Morwen - Talk 14:09, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
"Lincoln, although it is technically a city, is really an overgrown market town" which would make it a city. It's you opinion that it's an overgrown market town. Fact is it's a city like it or not. Northampton on the otherhand is actually a town, and correct me if I'm wrong has not been awarded city status yet. Jimmmmmmmmm 9:57 18th January 2006

[edit] Dispute

If Derby is the largest city by area, and Leicester is the largest city by population, then by what classification is Nottingham also the largest city. The sentence containing these contradictory statements is therefore a nonsense. Hence the dispute.--jrleighton 06:45, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Nottingham has the largest urban area by far, although Leicester has the most people within the city boundary. Morwen - Talk 13:04, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I find the statement that Derby is the largest city by area in the Midlands very unlikely. A quick glance at any ordnance survey maps of those cities shows far more urban sprawl for both Leicester and Nottingham. It is true that Nottingham conurbation is larger than the official city of Nottingham but even so... I think it's clear that the 3 biggest cities in the East Midlands in descending order are Nottingham, Leicester and Derby. MarkThomas 15:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Leicester is the largest city by population. The Nottingham urban area is rather dubiously defined to include some towns in Derbyshire and some in Notts that are fairly separate to the city. Having said that the Greater Nottingham area is still about 500 000 people, compared to around 441,213 in 'Greater Leicester'. The statement 'The largest city and the generally recognized "capital" of the East Midlands is Nottingham.' is, however, incorrect in the first part and hopelessly POV in the second.--Michig 12:35, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Nottingham was well known in local government circles for having a city boundary which is 'old' and does not embrace a significant part of its 'travel to work' area. Bristol similarly. In both cases the reasons are partly political. It's my understanding that Nottingham is easily the largest consurbation on most objective measures (says a man b & b in Derby) Bob aka Linuxlad 15:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] East Midlands Admin HQ

Can anyone clarify why Nottingham is listed as the Admin HQ of the East Midlands? The East Midlands Regional Eassembly is based in Melton Mowbray, Leics. What exactly does an 'Admin HQ' for a region mean anyway? I corrected the URL for the EMRA and the HQ, but it was reverted as 'vandalism'. Would anyone care to suggest why the HQ of the EMRA is not the HQ for government in the region?--Michig 19:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I wondered that myself. When I created the regional infoboxes I just copied over the existing data. Perhaps its only a notional "HQ" as in the most principal settlement in the region. The regional assemblies are under no obligation to select such a place to meet. MRSC 09:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] North Lincolnshire & North East Lincolnshire

Maybe someone could explain why these are listed as being in the East Midlands? I was under the impression they were in Yorkshire & The Humber and they are correctly included in the Yorkshire & The Humber article, it seems confusing to have these districts included in two regions--80.189.245.89 18:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

These two regions are not included in this article, but it does say the looser area of the East Midlands includes these areas. -- London UK | talk 18:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Burton

Er _who_ puts Burton in the East Midlands?. The West Midlands has to start somewhere, and across a county boundary is as good a place to start as any. (Especially since it's on the appropriate side (SW) of the defining river - River Dove. Linuxlad 13:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)