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• Buteshire
  ...Arran encompasses most of the shire's land, it has a sparse population and the main settlements are on Bute. ...]] between [[Ayrshire]] and [[Argyll]]. Of all the islands and skerries in the county, only four islands are inhabited ([[Isle of Bute|Bute]], [[Isle of A
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• Yell
  ...sles of [[Shetland]]: the most northly inhabited island after [[Unst]]. In the 2001 it had a usually resident population of 957. ...ing.</ref> and is the third most populous in the archipelago, coming after the Mainland and [[Whalsay]].<ref name=Smith/>
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• Roybridge
  ...ic is ''Drochaid Ruaidh'', meaning, appropriately enough, "the bridge over the Roy".<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Gaelic/placenam Roybridge is on the A86 between [[Spean Bridge]] and [[Newtonmore]] and on the West Highland line served by trains passing between [[Crianlarich]] and [[F
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• Dundee
  ...n of [[Angus]], standing on the north bank of the [[Firth of Tay]]. It is the fourth-largest city in [[Scotland]]. ...ry. This, along with its other major industries gave Dundee its epithet as the city of "jam, jute and journalism".
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• Arbroath
  | picture caption=Arbroath from the south ...miles southward of [[Aberdeen]]. The ancient parish together with that of the nearby village of [[St Vigeans]] form a combined civil parish.
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• Barrow-in-Furness
  ...ire's northernmost large town and the chief town of '''Lancashire North of the Sands'''. ...ade it a leading industrial town, specialising in steel shipbuilding since the late nineteenth century.
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• Flow Country
  [[File:Sutherland Flow Country.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Part of the Flow Country near Maovally in Sutherland]] ...se of peatland and wetland area of [[Caithness]] and [[Sutherland]]. It is the largest expanse of blanket bog in Britain and Europe, and covers about 1,50
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• Linlithgow
  ...in 1746, and while unroofed is still largely complete although very few of the original furnishings survived. ==The town==
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• Northwood
  '''Northwood''' is a town in the north-west of [[Middlesex]], on the county's border with [[Hertfordshire]]. The towns's population was recorded as 11,068 in 2008, by the Office for National Statistics<ref name=northwood>{{cite web |url=http://ww
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• Dumfries
  ...//qosfc.com/new_newsview.aspx?newsid=277 "Eva Mendes - the latest Queen of the South" 7th November 2010]</ref> ==Name of the town==
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• Dunfermline
  ...ret; Malcolm III's English queen. Dunfermline received [[List of cities in the United Kingdom|city status]] by Letters Patent on 3 October 2022.<ref>{{cit ...ttractions. Here are the ruins of Dunfermline's abbey, and the remains of the Royal Palace of Dunfermline, birthplace of King Charles I.
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• Glenrothes
  '''Glenrothes''' is a large town situated in the heart of [[Fife]], some 30 miles from both [[Edinburgh]] and [[Dundee]]. ...entre is contained indoors, within Fife's largest indoor shopping centre - The Kingdom Shopping Centre.
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• Coll
  ...Isle of [[Mull]]. It forms a pair with the Isle of [[Tiree]], lying off to the southwest. Quite unlike its mountainous near neighbour, Mull, Coll is a fla The coast of alternates between the low Como storm battered cliffs and broad, sandy beaches, which rise to form
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• Isle of Arran
  ...e]] peninsula and so might be better classed simply amongst the islands of the Firth. ...s a "geologist's paradise".<ref name=HSmith>Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004) ''The Scottish Islands''. Edinburgh. Canongate. ISBN 1841954543</ref>
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• Swona
  '''Swona''' is an uninhabited island in the [[Pentland Firth]] off the north coast of [[Caithness]]. ...to Orkney while its neighbour, Stroma, belongs to Caithness. Swona lies in the southern approach to [[Scapa Flow]], west of [[South Ronaldsay]].
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• Mainland, Orkney
  |picture caption=The Ring of Brodgar ...s burghs, [[Kirkwall]] and [[Stromness]], lie on the island, which is also the heart of Orkney's ferry and air connections.
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• Barra
  ...ich it is connected by a causeway, is the southernmost inhabited island of the [[Outer Hebrides]]. It is a predominantly Gaelic-speaking and Roman Catholi The name of the island means "Barr's island", after St Barr or St Finbarr.
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• Jura
  ...d and parish of [[Argyll]], in the [[Inner Hebrides]], lying in the sea to the north-east of [[Islay]]. ...mpbells gradually sold the island as a number of separate estates. Part of the island is designated as a National Scenic Area.
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• Munro
  [[File:BenNevis2005.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Ben Nevis is the highest Munro in Britain]] ...re named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet (1856&ndash;1919), who produced the first list of such hills, known as ''Munros Tables'', in 1891. A '''Munro t
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• Newark-on-Trent
  ...he [[River Trent]], the A1 (on the route of the old Great North Road), and the [[East Coast Main Line]] railway. It has town walls, a large though ruined ...ntary forces, and had to be relieved by Prince Rupert in a battle known as the Relief of Newark.
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