Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 12:05 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: > > In general, the world considers a city to be a "very large town". In > > the UK (and possibly other places) the concept of "city" has > specific > > connotations, namely the granting of Letters Patent by the Crown (a > > cathedral is not a prerequisite, nor is it a guarantee of city > status! > > ) > That is very true, although I had assumed that on recieving a city > charter a church is normally made a cathedral, but I guess that is my > Leicestershire background getting in the way. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester#The_early_20th_century >
In the USA, the official definition of what constitutes a city varies from state to state. However, due to the US Constitution's requirement for the separation of church and state, there is no requirement anywhere for a city to have a cathedral. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
