Question: In England, what is the number of settlements that have been given the status of city?
About the article "England", section "Major conurbations".

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Rest of the World cricketers.
The 1970 series.
In 1970 the proposed tour of England by South Africa was cancelled in the wake of protests against the policy of apartheid then in place in South Africa.
To replace the South African tourists five games were played in England between England and a Rest of the World side.
At the time, these matches were billed as full Tests and treated as such by the players and the English authorities.
Later, the ICC ruled that these matches did not have Test status.
Only one player, Alan Jones failed to win a cap in another series, and so is the only player ever to have won a Test cap, only to have it taken away.
Had these matches retained Test status, the above records would have been amended as follows (the number of Test cap refers to the actual number as shown above, not what that number would have been had these matches retained Test status): 
Position in an accepted settlement hierarchy implies status which in turn reinforces the position of the settlement in the hierarchy.
Status can derive from being the residence of a King or high-ranking member of the nobility or from being the location of a major religious establishment.
A formal hierarchy of settlements, known as a multiple estate appears to have been common in 10th century England.
The centre of an estate (often called a "caput") could be supported by subsidiary settlements sometimes given specialised roles.
For example, a Saxon royal estate might be supported by settlements specialising in production of cheese or barley or maintaining flocks of sheep. 
The Greater London Urban Area is by far the largest urban area in England and one of the busiest cities in the world.
It is considered a global city and has a population larger than other countries in the United Kingdom besides England itself.
Other urban areas of considerable size and influence tend to be in northern England or the English Midlands.
There are fifty settlements which have been designated city status in England, while the wider United Kingdom has sixty-six.
While many cities in England are quite large in size, such as Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, Bradford, Nottingham and others, a large population is not necessarily a prerequisite for a settlement to be afforded city status.
Traditionally the status was afforded to towns with diocesan cathedrals and so there are smaller cities like Wells, Ely, Ripon, Truro and Chichester.
According to the Office for National Statistics the ten largest, continuous built-up urban areas are:
This is a list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population.
The fifty largest settlements are listed.
This list has been compiled from data published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), based on the 2001 census.
Settlements with city status are shown in bold. 
The Norman Conquest of 1066 changed the demographics of England, with many settlements having been destroyed by the invading army.
In 1086, William the Conqueror ordered the creation of the Domesday Book, a systematic survey of the kingdom of England.
Over 100 settlements were classified as "borough" status and the number of houses or burgesses were counted.
Nonetheless, it is not possible to be sure of the exact population of any settlement and the table below is ordered by the recorded number of houses.
London was comfortably the largest borough in England and has remained so ever since, though was not included in the Domesday survey, nor were Winchester, Bristol or Tamworth and so their exact size must be estimated.