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Who uses the UK Towns Database?

UK Towns List is a UK town and city database commonly used by website developers, software developers, market researchers and professionals within many other industries where UK town data is required. As website and software developers ourselves, we find ourselves regularly tasked with building membership, registration and payment forms where a user has to enter their address details.

Calculating the distance between two locations in SQL

For some websites, it is a necessity to calculate the distance between certain locations. Take for example, a dating website which shows potential matches to a user within a 15 mile radius or a taxi business which calculates taxi fares based on distance between two locations. In both situations, this can easily be achieved with a simple SQL query and we're going to show you how.