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UK City Directions

Find the cities or large towns in the UK from their directions.


City Questions

  1. 47 miles south of London.
  2. Approximately 36 miles northeast of Plymouth and 65 miles southwest of Bristol.
  3. 40 miles east of Swindon, and 25 miles south of Oxford.
  4. 56 miles northwest of London, and 64 miles southeast of Birmingham.
  5. 45 miles east-southeast of Cambridge, and 40 miles south of Norwich.




  6. 20 miles east of Liverpool, and 16 miles west of Manchester.
  7. 13 miles to the south-west of Sunderland and 18 miles to the south of Newcastle.
  8. 83 miles west of Aberdeen, and 113 miles north of Edinburgh.
  9. 19 miles east-south-east of Birmingham, and 24 miles south-west of Leicester.
  10. Approximately 27 miles north west of Manchester, and 26 miles north east of Liverpool.
  11. 10 miles west of the Alton Towers Resort.
  12. 50 miles east of Leeds, and 34 miles south-east of York.
  13. 36 miles north-north-east of Edinburgh.
  14. 60 miles north-west of London and 50 miles south-east of Birmingham.
  15. 10 miles north-west of Manchester.
  16. 94 miles southwest of London.
  17. 56 miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne, and 90 miles south-east of Glasgow.
  18. 97 miles west of London, and 11 miles southeast of Bristol.
  19. 25 miles west of Cambridge, and 19 miles east-southeast of Northampton.
  20. 5 miles northwest of Oldham, and 10 miles northeast of Manchester.

Answers - Cities and Towns

  1. Brighton
  2. Exeter
  3. Reading
  4. Oxford
  5. Lincoln
  6. Warrington
  7. Durham
  8. Inverness
  9. Coventry
  10. Preston
  11. Stoke-on-Trent
  12. Hull (Kingston upon Hull)
  13. Dundee
  14. Northamptonshire
  15. Bolton
  16. Bournemouth
  17. Carlisle
  18. Bath
  19. Bedford
  20. Rochdale