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Green Belt s were introduced in the 20th Century to try to stop new conurbations forming. Clear conurbations however, exist at
In all of these, regardless of local government, towns that have become part of the conurbation have retained clear identities as separate towns. In England, some of these are recognised as Metropolitan Counties (Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands, West Yorkshire), alongside Greater London which has a similar status. Others have become unified local government districts (such as Torbay, Medway). There is a spectrum that can be drawn between the conurbations that have a clear 'head' (such as Nottingham, Portsmouth, Southampton) to those that are do not - known as Multi-centred Conurbation s (such as Bournemouth/Poole and Teesside) - via ones that are more borderline (Tyne and Wear, West Midlands). In the case of the West Midlands, for example, the 'centre' city, Birmingham did expand massively and is now considered to include areas that were formerly independent towns, such as Sutton Coldfield and Aston . However, here it stopped, with the Black Country and Wolverhampton retaining strong identities. In various parts of the country are more borderline cases, where the areas expanded into did not necessarily have strong identities as towns. However, the areas do retain separate local government structures, and therefore can be considered conurbations on this basis :
There are also various places where whilst not actually running into each other, the amount of development in a large area is substantial. Heavily built up areas of this type include :
The entire Merseyside / Warrington / Greater Manchester area is probably about as built up as West Yorkshire. There are gaps of countryside between towns on the way from Liverpool to Manchester, but not especially big ones. The area between is protected as part of a Green Belt, to stop the conurbation proceeding further. Smaller examples of conurbations also exist on a more local level. For example, Warwick runs into Leamington Spa , Luton runs into Dunstable , and Grimsby runs into Cleethorpes . BY POPULATION According to ONS urban area figures (which only cover England And Wales )
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