Doncaster (“Donny”) is strictly speaking not a city, but a town. It has been applying unsuccessfully to the Crown to be upgraded to city status since about 1250 AD. It remains a town, despite having a population of around 300,000.

Doncaster is the undisputed capital of one part of eastern South Yorkshire and home to Thande. Paradoxically it is both the 'gayest town in Britain' and the town with the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe. Don't ask me how that works. Doncaster is renowned for powerful trains such as the Mallard, and Jeremy Clarkson.

Despite having been founded by the Romans as Danum and remaining a major trading centre ever since, it never, ever appears in AH timelines.

Doncaster is also the site of the Cat Vatican the present occupent of which is his Holiness the Cat Pope Tiberius XIV.