Students are often bussed in from these outlying towns.

It covers a number of other outlying towns and villages, which had previously been covered by separate municipal borough, urban and rural district councils.

The area of the city continued to expand through the 1920s and 1930s through merger with outlying towns and villages.

At that time, the city's total area increased fourfold through absorbing several outlying towns and villages and the population increased to 1.56 million people.

In more developed parts of the country, publishers delivered papers by truck to local carriers in outlying towns.