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^ I used to live in York and there was an amount of freelocking going on, especially around the uni. Maybe it's got worse since I left about a year ago.
My girlfriend now lives in Oxford and the majority of bikes there are freelocked or just not locked at all - some stunningly nice ones too; I saw a 1950s French town bike just leaning against a wall, all day, untouched. Presumably these are the same cyclists who ride without lights and don't indicate or shoulder-check, but inexplicably wear a helmet (I once sat on Magdalen Bridge and counted the cyclists without a pair of working lights - more than half of them).
Mind you, any bike left unlocked/freelocked/cable-locked in Oxford overnight will get stolen.