In Reply to: re: re: the traditional test was whether the town had a cathedral posted by Foehammer on April 05, 2007 at 02:09:47:

In total there are 17 English, Welsh and Northern Ireland towns that have city status but do not have Anglican cathedrals within their borders - Bath (a former cathedral), Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, Newry, Nottingham, Plymouth, Preston, Salford, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Swansea, Westminster (but Westminster Abbey was a cathedral briefly during the reign of Henry VIII) and Wolverhampton.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom