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  • ...er]]. It is the easternmost part of [[Yorkshire]]. It forms a wapentake of Yorkshire, its main towns including [[Withernsea]], [[Hornsea]] and [[Hedon]]. ...Netherlands than other parts of Yorkshire. To the north and west are the [[Yorkshire Wolds]].
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  • ...e in [[Derbyshire]] that forms a suburb of [[Sheffield]] in neighbouring [[Yorkshire]]. It lies five miles south-east of Sheffield city centre. During much of t ...e local children in the village during the 20th century. It was demolished in 1999 and today local children attend the Rainbow Forge school.
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  • |county=Yorkshire ...on of the [[Diocese of Wakefield]] and the town's elevation to city status in that year.
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  • ...a population of just 224 (as in 2001) but is close to and serves its part in the industry of the area. Along with its larger neighbour [[South Killingh In March 2007, it was announced that flood defences in the area will be improved by the Environment Agency.<ref>[http://news.bbc.c
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  • ...some 2 miles north of [[Oldham]] and 3½ miles southeast of [[Rochdale]], in the foothills of the southern [[Pennines]]. It stands on the [[River Beal] ...was the original name for the locality, while Shaw was originally a hamlet in the township of Crompton. Shaw later grew to dominate the locality, winnin
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  • ...ow Brook. It then flows south east till it merges with the [[River Rother, Yorkshire|River Rother]] at Brimmington Road North (the B6050) at Chesterfield. It is ...ork was also done to build up the bank level with bunds or retaining walls in some sections of the valley.
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  • ...remains on the island include Mucklaberry Castle tower, which was restored in the 1890s.<ref name="Overview of Vaila">[http://www.scottish-places.info/fe In 1490, the Ciske family's estates were divided and Vaila and [[Foula]] became the property of Alv Knutsson. H
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  • ...which cuts through the north of the [[Peak District]], from the edge of [[Yorkshire]] down to the [[Cheshire Plain]]. It is a narrow valley, flanked on each s There are few villages in Longendale, all in [[Cheshire]] on the northern side of the dale, strung along the ancient sal
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  • |picture=Church Street in Littleborough.jpg '''Littleborough''' is a mill town in southern [[Lancashire]], standing in the upper [[River Roch|Roch Valley]] by the foothills of the [[Pennines]].
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  • |county=Yorkshire ...st city, [[Leeds]] is to the north. Dewsbury stands on the [[River Calder, Yorkshire|River Calder]] and an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
    10 KB (1,619 words) - 16:49, 29 January 2016
  • |county=Yorkshire ...[[Yorkshire]] and its suburbs reaching out toward the [[Isle of Axholme]] in [[Lincolnshire]].
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  • '''Ashton-under-Lyne''' is a market town in [[Lancashire]]. It stands on the north bank of the [[River Tame, Lancashir ...ing, weaving, and coal mining, which led to the granting of borough status in 1847.
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  • The '''Manchester Ship Canal''' is a river navigation 36 miles long in the very south of [[Lancashire]] and its border with [[Cheshire]], built br ...rd Park, the world's first planned industrial estate and still the largest in Europe.
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  • |picture caption=<small>'The Cut' in Banbridge</small> ...Its population was 14,744 people in the 2001 though is said to have raised in population by a fifth since then,<ref>http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Banb
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  • |picture=Yorkshire Street, Bacup.jpg |picture caption=Yorkshire Street, Bacup
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  • ...ter, formally known as The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York. ...ority over Scotland but these claims were disputed by the Scottish bishops in the Middle Ages and the claim ceased when the office of Archbishop of St An
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  • '''Hyde''' is a town in [[Cheshire]]. At the 2001 census, the town had a population of 31,253. It ...ne famous from "Big Ben" in Westminster, but originating at King's Collage in Cambridge.
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  • |picture=Boer War Memorial in Winsford Cross Shopping Centre - geograph.org.uk - 1711499.jpg ...]], and grew around the salt mining industry after the river was canalised in the eighteenth century, allowing freight to be conveyed northwards to the P
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  • ...Peak District National Park". It had a total resident population of 32,428 in 2001 according to the census of that year. ...r]], and near Derbyshire's borders with [[Cheshire]], [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]]. Glossop's transport links to Manchester make it a popular town for comm
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  • ...t Britain that are prefixed with "Cape", the other being [[Cape Cornwall]] in [[Cornwall]]. The first road in the district was built in 1828 by the lighthouse commission across the Parph. This road is only acces
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