Can anyone please tell me where I can get a list of all UK towns/cities to use in a drop down box in address section of website registration? Thanks

If you don't mind a bit of copying and pasting: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~agene/locations/

Otherwise it is going to cost you about £400 minimum from a mapping agency.

you shouldn't really have that many items in a dropdown list anyway... :)

but if you're interested, http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/products/build.aspx may help.

What he said....

Most websites let you type in town/city. It's the counties you'd have in a drop down.

hi thanks; the first link (ancestry) is 45,000 towns cities villages and places of interest!! bit long me thinks!!

ok. so is there a piece of software i can buy that let u do a search for an area by postcode then within so many miles, i.e. 10, 50, 100 miles ?

its for a website that has a location search facility too.

the link i've suggested does that. its something like 10p per search (reducing if you buy credit) and there's source code for every conceivable language (except Lisp, sadly) - there's a developers account too to let you try it out.

http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/developers/documentation/uk/

ive checked out the postcode anywhere link u sent, plus similar others already, but im wanting the software where you enter the miles so it selects the geographical information within that parameter. i.e. 10 miles within Sheffield, 40 miles within leeds, etc.,

i'm fairly sure postcodeanywhere will work - try the nearest or nearestradial services. what 'geographical information' do you want? and can you work with postcodes, not towns/cities? eg do you want, 'sort me these postcodes in order of nearest to s1'?