Town and City in Britain

A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands. A town is larger than a village but, smaller than a city.

(differentiated by economic character)

•Township : a local division or district of a large parish containing a  village or small town usually having its own church.

•Villages : a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town.

•Hamlet  : means a house or village without a church.

           A city has a professional administrators, regulations, and some form of taxation. City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the monarch of the United Kingdom to a select group of communities: as of 2014, there are 69 cities in the United Kingdom – 51 in England, six in Wales, seven in Scotland and five in Northern Ireland. For example : Greater London, Rochester, Scotland etc. 

 The difference between towns and cities :

The difference between towns and cities is differently understood in different parts of English speaking world. there is no standard international definition of a city: the term may be used either for a town possessing city status; for a town dominating after towns with particular regional economic or administrative.

An urban village is an urban development typically characterized by medium-density housing, mixed usezoning, good public transit and an emphasis on pedestrianization and public space. A small self-contained district or community within a town or city.

The Inner City - also known as the Twilight zone, this is the area of British cities which contained much heavy industry and a population that is highly transient (moves on a lot and changes a lot). It contains a mixture of high density residential use (in the UK mainly terraced houses and tower blocks) and light/heavy industry.

Rural areas (also reffered to as “the country”, countryside) are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities. Such areas are distinct from more intensively settled urban and suburban areas, and also from unsettled lands such as outback or wilderness. People in rural areas live in villages, hamlets or farms and other isolated houses.

In the United Kingdom and in Ireland, suburb merely refers to a residential area outside the city centre, regardless of administrative boundaries. Suburbs, in this sense, can range from areas that seem more like residential areas of a city proper to areas separated by open countryside from the city centre. In large cities such as London, suburbs include formerly separate towns and villages that have been gradually absorbed during a city's growth and expansion, such as Ealing or Bromley.