Examples of conurbation

• In the combined young group, a greater majority of speakers believed that the conurbation should not be divided (13 of 16).

• However, the conurbation was compact, the centre dominated economically, the ancient corporation provided leadership and excellent wholesale markets and the economy was quite different.

• The same can be said of the metropolitan conurbation in the 1850s when compared to the urban clusters that grew around near-northern cities.

• The districts were chosen for their geographical spread and to include rural villages, small towns, suburbs and larger conurbations.

• The capacity to provide information in these conurbations is exceptional in its wealth and complexity, seldom found in other places or in other circumstances.

• The town chosen should not be on the coast or part of a conurbation as this would complicate geographical migration patterns.

• Understandably, most works that have examined the middle classes have tended to focus on the 'city' or neighbouring industrial conurbations.

• But he also insists that policymakers would have been better advised to put money into smaller and less expensive get-away venues, closer to the heart of major conurbations.