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  • | picture caption=Kirkcaldy from the Firth of Forth ...cities of [[Dundee]] and [[Edinburgh]]. It also forms a parish by the name of Kirkcaldy and Dysart.
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  • | scots = Steenhive '''Stonehaven''' is a town on the coast of [[Kincardineshire]], of which it is the county town.
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  • | scots= Jeddart, Jethart ...dburgh Abbey]]. Other notable buildings in the town include Mary, Queen of Scots' House and Jedburgh Castle Gaol, now a museum.
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  • ...Royal Burghs in Scotland. It stands on the [[Ettrick Water]], a tributary of the [[River Tweed]]. ...me to Scotland's oldest horse racing track, the Gala Rig, on the outskirts of the town.
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  • ...yde bar the way north or south, leaving Stirling standing in a narrow neck of passable land joining the Lowlands to the [[Scottish Highlands|Highlands]]. Stirling itself stands on the south bank of the Forth, which forms Stirlingshire’s northern boundary for all but a fe
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  • ...ds close to the [[Firth of Forth]], its port, [[Leith]], on the south side of the water looking out toward [[Fife]]. ...s the old town, down toward the royal palace of Holyrood House, a way full of history, commerce and academia, while across the Princes Street Gardens lie
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  • ...e [[county town]]. The town stands on the [[River Nene]] and is a mixture of old and new; the town is an ancient borough and the town centre has many hi [[File:Holy Sepulchre, Northampton.jpg|thumb|upright|Interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]
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  • ...h is the heart of the [[Soke of Peterborough]], the north-easternmost part of Northamptonshire. ...n centre has been greatly redeveloped and is surrounded but a great number of twentieth-century residential neighbourhoods, many entirely replacing older
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  • ...le place to live], UTV News, 3 August 2007</ref> Bangor was granted [[List of cities in the United Kingdom|city status]] by Letters Patent on 2 December ...oad and a direct railway line. Bangor is 13½&nbsp;miles east of the heart of Belfast and thirty minutes by train or bus with George Best Belfast City Ai
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  • ...Leven, Dunbartonshire|River Leven]] flows into the Clyde estuary. The Rock of Dumbarton stands on the shore here, a grand, steep rock on whose height the [[Dumbarton Castle]], sits now in the cleavage of [[Dumbarton Rock]], commanding the Clyde and the wider area.
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  • ...tp://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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  • ...e [[River Nith]], north of [[Thornhill, Dumfriesshire|Thornhill]] and west of [[Moffat]]. ...contains a memorial to James Crichton, a 16th-century polymath. The ruins of Sanquhar Castle stand nearby.
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  • |constituency=City of Durham ...Durham]], of which it is the county town. The city centre stands in a loop of the [[River Wear]], dominated by the vast Cathedral, atop a precipitous cli
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  • '''Lanark''' is a small town and royal burgh in [[Lanarkshire]], of which it is the [[county town]]. It stands above the [[River Clyde]] in Cl ...llages. There is a large, modern livestock auction market on the outskirts of the town.
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  • ...pool''' is a town and port in [[County Durham]] standing on the north bank of the [[River Tees]]. ...%20Ordnance%20Survey%20of%20Scotland%20First%20Series Ordnance Survey plan of the 'Hartlepools']</ref>
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  • ...e granted city status|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23015443.king-charles-visits-scotland-dunfermline-granted-city-status/ |access-date=3 Oct ...the remains of the Royal Palace of Dunfermline, birthplace of King Charles I.
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  • ...n streading across much of south-eastern Northumberland and the north-east of [[County Durham]]. ...o the castle built in 1080, by Robert II, Duke of Normandy, the eldest son of William the Conqueror. The city grew as an important centre for the wool tr
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  • |picture=Satellite image of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in April 2002.jpg ...ains 83 of the UK's 92 [[Counties of the United Kingdom|counties]] &mdash; of the remaining nine, three are formed from the surrounding archipelagoes, na
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  • |scots=Cookestoun ...fourth largest town in the county. At the 2001 census it had a population of nearly 11,000.
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  • ...reland satellite image bright.png|300px|thumb|right|A satellite photograph of the British Isles, the island on the right being Great Britain and the smal ...h and east of the islands lies continental Europe, 21 miles from the coast of [[Kent]] at the nearest point. To the north is open sea until the Faroe Isl
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