A quick look at the 588 big villages you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.
GuessTheDot is a free geography guessing game: you get a place name and a map full of dots, then click the one you think is right.
Villages with enough people that locals would call them a proper town, but small enough that they rarely make the news. Ranked play starts here, since cities are too easy to be a real test.
In the United Kingdom this set is spread across 138 different counties, with Greater London home to the most of them (71).
Place kinds on GuessTheDot are a practical grouping by population and place type for gameplay, not a legal or historical designation. A place can hold official city rights (or an old city charter) and still show up here as a village if it stayed small, and the other way around: this is a rough size ladder for guessing, not a statement about a place's official status.
Only the 250 biggest fit on this page. The game still picks from all 588.
| Place | Population | county |
|---|---|---|
| Rotherham | 117,618 | Rotherham |
| Chesterfield | 113,057 | Derbyshire |
| Sutton Coldfield | 109,899 | City and Borough of Birmingham |
| Wakefield | 109,766 | City and Borough of Wakefield |
| Walthamstow | 109,424 | Greater London |
| West Bromwich | 103,112 | Sandwell |
| Bath | 101,557 | Bath and North East Somerset |
| Rochdale | 97,550 | Borough of Rochdale |
| Wembley | 90,045 | Greater London |
| Nuneaton | 88,813 | Warwickshire |
| Redditch | 87,847 | Worcestershire |
| Fulham | 87,161 | Greater London |
| Cannock | 86,121 | Staffordshire |
| South Shields | 83,655 | South Tyneside |
| Halifax | 82,624 | Calderdale |
| Edmonton | 82,000 | Greater London |
| Southall | 78,253 | Greater London |
| Rugby | 78,117 | Warwickshire |
| Gateshead | 77,649 | Gateshead |
| Lisburn | 77,506 | Lisburn and Castlereagh |
| Paisley | 77,270 | Renfrewshire |
| Fylde | 76,500 | Lancashire |
| Bracknell | 76,103 | Bracknell Forest |
| East Kilbride | 75,310 | South Lanarkshire |
| Hove | 75,174 | Brighton and Hove |
| Purley | 72,000 | Greater London |
| Barnsley | 71,447 | Barnsley |
| Chingford | 70,583 | Greater London |
| Maidenhead | 70,374 | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Rossendale | 67,400 | Lancashire |
| Washington | 67,085 | Sunderland |
| Hounslow | 66,292 | Greater London |
| Finchley | 65,812 | Greater London |
| Ellesmere Port Town | 65,430 | Cheshire West and Chester |
| Cricklewood | 65,000 | Greater London |
| Loughborough | 64,884 | Leicestershire |
| Waterlooville | 64,350 | Hampshire |
| Newtownabbey | 63,860 | Antrim and Newtownabbey |
| Mitcham | 63,393 | Greater London |
| Sale | 62,550 | Trafford |
| Acton | 62,480 | Greater London |
| Widnes | 61,464 | Borough of Halton |
| Runcorn | 61,145 | Borough of Halton |
| Bury | 61,044 | Borough of Bury |
| Dewsbury | 61,035 | Kirklees |
| Bangor | 61,011 | Ards and North Down |
| Beckenham | 60,739 | Greater London |
| Tynemouth | 60,605 | North Tyneside |
| Halesowen | 60,097 | Dudley |
| Wallasey | 58,794 | Metropolitan Borough of Wirral |
| Streatham | 58,055 | Greater London |
| Bootle | 57,791 | Sefton |
| Bebington | 57,600 | Metropolitan Borough of Wirral |
| Kidderminster | 57,400 | Worcestershire |
| Morley | 57,385 | City and Borough of Leeds |
| Stourbridge | 56,950 | Dudley |
| Castlereagh | 56,679 | City of Belfast |
| Kettering | 56,676 | North Northamptonshire |
| Wellingborough | 56,564 | North Northamptonshire |
| South Croydon | 55,198 | Greater London |
| Huyton | 54,738 | Knowsley |
| Barry | 54,673 | Vale of Glamorgan |
| Hamilton | 54,480 | South Lanarkshire |
| Meikle Earnock | 54,480 | South Lanarkshire |
| Gravesend | 54,263 | Kent |
| Eastleigh | 54,225 | Hampshire |
| Smethwick | 53,653 | Sandwell |
| Brentwood | 52,586 | Essex |
| Esher | 52,392 | Surrey |
| Dunstable | 51,973 | Central Bedfordshire |
| Redhill | 51,559 | Surrey |
| Welwyn Garden City | 51,505 | Hertfordshire |
| Dartford | 51,240 | Kent |
| Staines | 51,040 | Surrey |
| Royal Leamington Spa | 50,923 | Warwickshire |
| Hinckley | 50,712 | Leicestershire |
| Cumbernauld | 50,530 | North Lanarkshire |
| Kirkcaldy | 50,370 | Fife |
| Bletchley | 50,193 | Milton Keynes |
| Keighley | 50,171 | Bradford |
| Altrincham | 49,680 | Trafford |
| Llanelli | 49,591 | Carmarthenshire |
| Willenhall | 49,587 | Walsall |
| Eltham | 48,964 | Greater London |
| South Benfleet | 48,824 | Essex |
| Cwmbran | 48,535 | Torfaen County Borough |
| Morden | 48,233 | Greater London |
| Long Eaton | 47,898 | Derbyshire |
| Durham | 47,785 | County Durham |
| Northwich | 47,421 | Cheshire West and Chester |
| Tipton | 47,000 | Sandwell |
| Banstead | 46,280 | Surrey |
| Neath | 46,126 | Neath Port Talbot |
| Winchester | 46,074 | Hampshire |
| Middleton | 45,589 | Borough of Rochdale |
| Havant | 45,574 | Hampshire |
| Kirkby | 45,564 | Knowsley |
| Carshalton | 45,525 | Greater London |
| Castleford | 45,106 | City and Borough of Wakefield |
| Catford | 44,905 | Greater London |
| Worksop | 44,733 | Nottinghamshire |
| Pontefract | 44,710 | City and Borough of Wakefield |
| Willesden | 44,295 | Greater London |
| Coatbridge | 43,950 | North Lanarkshire |
| Great Sankey | 43,793 | Warrington |
| Cheshunt | 43,680 | Hertfordshire |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 43,675 | Borough of Tameside |
| Leigh | 43,626 | Borough of Wigan |
| Leatherhead | 43,544 | Surrey |
| Wallsend | 42,739 | North Tyneside |
| Leighton Buzzard | 42,727 | Central Bedfordshire |
| Lytham St Annes | 42,695 | Lancashire |
| Canning Town | 42,667 | Greater London |
| Fareham | 42,210 | Hampshire |
| Stretford | 41,953 | Trafford |
| Urmston | 41,731 | Trafford |
| Newburn | 41,347 | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Hatfield | 41,265 | Hertfordshire |
| Wokingham | 41,143 | Wokingham |
| Welling | 41,000 | Greater London |
| Ilkeston | 40,953 | Derbyshire |
| Prescot | 40,889 | Knowsley |
| Kingswood | 40,734 | South Gloucestershire |
| Bloxwich | 40,000 | Walsall |
| North Shields | 39,747 | North Tyneside |
| Shepherds Bush | 39,724 | Greater London |
| Batley | 39,013 | Kirklees |
| Skelmersdale | 38,813 | Lancashire |
| Abingdon | 38,676 | Oxfordshire |
| Canvey Island | 38,170 | Essex |
| Surbiton | 38,158 | Greater London |
| Whitley Bay | 38,055 | North Tyneside |
| Greenford | 38,000 | Greater London |
| Arnold | 37,873 | Nottinghamshire |
| Coalville | 37,661 | Leicestershire |
| Leyland | 37,614 | Lancashire |
| Chadderton | 37,602 | Borough of Oldham |
| Rushden | 37,584 | North Northamptonshire |
| Yeadon | 37,379 | City and Borough of Leeds |
| Blyth | 37,339 | Northumberland |
| Eccles | 37,275 | City and Borough of Salford |
| Warwick | 37,267 | Warwickshire |
| Wigston Magna | 37,260 | Leicestershire |
| Redcar | 37,073 | Redcar and Cleveland |
| Heston | 37,045 | Greater London |
| Chester-le-Street | 36,917 | County Durham |
| Houghton-Le-Spring | 36,746 | Sunderland |
| Stratford | 36,666 | Greater London |
| West Bridgford | 36,487 | Nottinghamshire |
| Mangotsfield | 36,427 | South Gloucestershire |
| Sutton in Ashfield | 36,404 | Nottinghamshire |
| Airdrie | 36,390 | North Lanarkshire |
| Billericay | 36,338 | Essex |
| Borehamwood | 36,322 | Hertfordshire |
| Exmouth | 36,204 | Devon |
| Tyldesley | 35,932 | Borough of Wigan |
| Hyde | 35,895 | Borough of Tameside |
| Billingham | 35,708 | Stockton-on-Tees |
| Pontypool | 35,686 | Torfaen County Borough |
| Walkden | 35,616 | City and Borough of Salford |
| Hitchin | 35,220 | Hertfordshire |
| Briton Ferry | 35,179 | Neath Port Talbot |
| Hoddesdon | 35,174 | Hertfordshire |
| Accrington | 34,897 | Lancashire |
| Bentley | 34,821 | Doncaster |
| Bromsgrove | 34,755 | Worcestershire |
| Lichfield | 34,738 | Staffordshire |
| Swadlincote | 34,576 | Derbyshire |
| Felling | 34,355 | Gateshead |
| Totton | 34,169 | Hampshire |
| Letchworth Garden City | 33,990 | Hertfordshire |
| Chorley | 33,888 | Lancashire |
| Bicester | 33,846 | Oxfordshire |
| Haywards Heath | 33,845 | West Sussex |
| Wednesfield | 33,555 | Wolverhampton |
| Cramlington | 33,180 | Northumberland |
| North Watford | 33,000 | Hertfordshire |
| Brighouse | 32,872 | Calderdale |
| Motherwell | 32,840 | North Lanarkshire |
| Darwen | 32,566 | Blackburn with Darwen |
| Rayleigh | 32,380 | Essex |
| Lower Earley | 32,000 | Wokingham |
| Thamesmead | 31,824 | Greater London |
| Windsor | 31,560 | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Prestwich | 31,500 | Borough of Bury |
| Epsom | 31,489 | Surrey |
| Christchurch | 31,372 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council |
| Stanley | 31,300 | County Durham |
| Pontypridd | 31,206 | Rhondda Cynon Taf |
| Thornton-Cleveleys | 31,157 | Lancashire |
| Bedworth | 31,090 | Warwickshire |
| Caerphilly | 31,060 | Caerphilly County Borough |
| Ruislip | 31,000 | Greater London |
| Rutherglen | 30,950 | South Lanarkshire |
| Deal | 30,917 | Kent |
| Saint Neots | 30,811 | Cambridgeshire |
| Cambuslang | 30,790 | South Lanarkshire |
| Harpenden | 30,674 | Hertfordshire |
| Burgess Hill | 30,635 | West Sussex |
| Beverley | 30,587 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Camberley | 30,155 | Surrey |
| Barnet | 30,000 | Greater London |
| Radcliffe | 29,950 | Borough of Bury |
| Hucknall | 29,728 | Nottinghamshire |
| Egham | 29,663 | Surrey |
| Stanford-le-Hope | 29,525 | Borough of Thurrock |
| Sevenoaks | 29,506 | Kent |
| Kidsgrove | 29,480 | Staffordshire |
| Jarrow | 29,470 | South Tyneside |
| Newtownards | 29,363 | Ards and North Down |
| Didcot | 29,341 | Oxfordshire |
| Nelson | 29,317 | Lancashire |
| Burntwood | 29,244 | Staffordshire |
| Carrickfergus | 29,208 | Mid and East Antrim |
| Consett | 29,137 | County Durham |
| Witney | 29,103 | Oxfordshire |
| Heswall | 29,075 | Metropolitan Borough of Wirral |
| Cheadle Hulme | 28,952 | Borough of Stockport |
| Rochester | 28,671 | Medway |
| Shipley | 28,544 | Bradford |
| Bearsden | 28,470 | East Dunbartonshire |
| Wood Green | 28,453 | Greater London |
| Bushey | 28,416 | Hertfordshire |
| Newton Mearns | 28,210 | East Renfrewshire |
| Daventry | 28,123 | West Northamptonshire |
| Brierley Hill | 28,000 | Dudley |
| Muswell Hill | 27,992 | Greater London |
| Sunbury-on-Thames | 27,784 | Surrey |
| Newry | 27,757 | Newry Mourne and Down |
| Melton Mowbray | 27,737 | Leicestershire |
| Evesham | 27,684 | Worcestershire |
| Ashington | 27,670 | Northumberland |
| Kirkby in Ashfield | 27,539 | Nottinghamshire |
| Wickford | 27,535 | Essex |
| Burngreave | 27,481 | Sheffield |
| Denton | 27,464 | Borough of Tameside |
| Cleckheaton | 27,393 | Kirklees |
| Longton | 27,214 | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Haverhill | 27,041 | Suffolk |
| Maghull | 26,997 | Sefton |
| Aldridge | 26,896 | Walsall |
| Stalybridge | 26,830 | Borough of Tameside |
| Highbury | 26,664 | Greater London |
| East Grinstead | 26,523 | West Sussex |
| Flint | 26,442 | County of Flintshire |
| Newton Aycliffe | 26,415 | County Durham |
| Ashton in Makerfield | 26,380 | St. Helens |
| Portishead | 26,355 | North Somerset |
| Westhoughton | 26,260 | Borough of Bolton |
| Fleetwood | 26,232 | Lancashire |
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