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High Street Banks and Building Societies

The most common bank you will come across is London and across the UK is the typical High Street bank or Building Society. These organisations are commercial banking businesses whose primary market is in consumer finance.

High Street Banks

There is a large number of what are known as High Street banks. The name High Street Bank comes from the positioning within towns and cities of branches of the bank, usually on the main shopping street or primary route through the town, commonly known as the High Street.

The following is a list of the most common High Street banks:

Building Societies

Barnsley Building Society  
Bath Building Society  
Beverley Building Society  
Britannia Building Society  
Buckinghamshire Building Society
Cambridge Building Society

Catholic Building Society  
Century Building Society
Chelsea Building Society  
Chesham Building Society
 
Cheshire Building Society  
Chorley & District Building Society
City of Derry Building Society  
Clay Cross Building Society  
Coventry Building Society  
Cumberland Building Society  
Darlington Building Society  
Derbyshire Building Society  
Dudley Building Society  
Dunfermline Building Society
Earl Shilton Building Society  
Ecology Building Society  
Furness Building Society 
Hanley Building Society  
Harpenden Building Society  
Hinckley & Rugby Building Society  
Holmesdale Building Society  
Ipswich Building Society  
Kent Reliance Building Society  
Lambeth Building Society
Leeds & Holbeck Building Society  
Leek United Building Society
Loughborough Building Society 

Manchester Building Society  
Mansfield Building Society  
Market Harborough Building Society  
Marsden Building Society  
Mercantile Building Society  
Melton Mowbray Building Society  
Monmouthshire Building Society
National Counties Building Society  
Nationwide Building Society  
Newbury Building Society  
Newcastle Building Society
Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
Nottingham Building Society  
Penrith Building Society  
Portman Building Society  
Progressive Building Society  
Saffron Walden Building Society  
Scarborough Building Society  
Scottish Building Society  
Shepshed Building Society  
Skipton Building Society  
Stafford Railway Building Society  
Staffordshire Building Society  
Stroud and Swindon Building Society  
Swansea Building Society  
Teachers Building Society  
The Principality Building Society  
Tipton & Coseley Building Society  
Universal Building Society  
Vernon Building Society  
West Bromwich Building Society  
Yorkshire Building Society

 

Investment Banks

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Online Banks

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