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• Carlisle
  ...It remains relatively intact, once served as a prison for Mary, Queen of Scots. The castle now houses the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and the Border Regi ...before Roman days on whose name the Romans had based their own version. In Modern Welsh, Carlisle is known as ''Caerliwelydd''.
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• Workington
  ...English language. Whether it is from ''weorc'' (meaning "work" in all its modern senses) or an individual with a simlar name is unknown. In 1533, John Lela ...out, by Stilicho the potent commander of the Roman state, what time as the Scots annoyed these coasts out of Ireland. For thus speaketh Britaine of herselfe
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• Northampton
  ...eclared a “new town” in 1968 and consequently all around it has sprung modern new-town suburbs. ...Northampton was signed - being a peace treaty between the English and the Scots in which Edward III recognised the authority of Robert the Bruce as King of
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• Peterborough
  ===Modern period=== ...o queens buried beneath its paving, Katherine of Aragon and Mary, Queen of Scots. The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her s
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• United Kingdom
  ...s, Wales, Ireland, wars (France, roses, England-Scotland), reformation and modern age, civil war etc] ...personal union by the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when James VI, King of Scots inherited the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and moved his court from Edin
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• Downpatrick
  |scots=Dounpatrick ...Celtair'' named after the fictional warrior of Ulster called Celtchar (in modern Irish: ''Cealtachair'') who resided there and who fought alongside Ulster K
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• Bangor, County Down
  ...for Belfast, though the remnants of the town's varied past still shape its modern form. ...e the decline of the monastery, its influence can still be observed in the modern city; streets names such as Abbots Close and Abbots Walk in the area of the
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• Dumbarton
  ...r his capture. In early modern times, it was from here that Mary, Queen of Scots, was conveyed to France for safety as a child. Mary was trying to reach Dum ...wn. It was estimated that the flood defences would cost 30,000&nbsp;pounds Scots, the cost being levied nationwide.<ref>Chambers, Robert (1885). ''Domestic
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• Cumbernauld
  ...The castle played host to the royalty of Scotland, including Mary Queen of Scots, who visited the castle and planted a yew tree at Castlecary Castle, only a ...{cite web | url=http://www.theglasgowstory.com/story.php?id=TGSFG10| title=Modern Times: 1950s to The Present Day - Neighbourhoods -New Towns | first=W Hamis
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• Dumfries
  ...the ancient historian Nennius, the name ''Caer Peris'' occurs, which some modern antiquarians suppose to have been transmuted, by a change of dialect, into ...n the day Bruce and his supporters were victorious. He was crowned King of Scots barely seven weeks after. Bruce later triumphed at the Battle of Bannockbur
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• Durham
  ...Durham'' but states that it is an "impossibility" to tell when the city's modern name came into being.<ref name="Surtees" /> ...which took place near the city on 17 October 1346 between the English and Scots is the most famous battle of the age.<ref name="Surtees" />
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• Lanark
  ...e local agricultural community and surrounding villages. There is a large, modern livestock auction market on the outskirts of the town. ...lding the Royal Burghs by John Barrett and David Iredale. Published in The Scots Magazine. Volume 142, Number 1. January 1995. pp 10 – 22.
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• Hartlepool
  ...the town's defences, but in 1315, before the defebces were completed, the Scots attacked and sacked the town.<ref name=LocHistHart/> The town recovered in ===Wars of the Modern Age===
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• Dunbar
  ...h Covenanter army and English Parliamentarians led by Oliver Cromwell. The Scots were routed, leading to the overthrow of the monarchy and the occupation of ...t only the outer walls remaining, the church has since been rebuilt with a modern interior.
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• Kirkwall
  ...ng James III of Scotland elevated Kirkwall to the status of a royal burgh; modern roadsigns still indicate "The City and Royal Burgh of Kirkwall". ...vour the Uppie side to the point the Doonies are outnumbered almost 2-1 in modern games, and have only won a single game from 1998 to 2007. Up to 200 player
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• Coll
  ...s-39extinct39-insect.6423196.jp "Beetle mania as 'extinct' insect found on Scots isle"]. ''The Scotsman''. Retrieved 19 July 2010.</ref>
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• Newcastle upon Tyne
  ...ce south through the town. Newcastle was successfully defended against the Scots three times during the 14th century, and was given its own sheriff by Henry ...ce") upon the town. Ironically, Charles was imprisoned in Newcastle by the Scots in 1646-7.
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• Great Britain
  ...|page=62|chapter=Traces of the early humans|isbn=9780415353441}}</ref> and modern humans from about 30,000 years ago. Until about 10,000 years ago, Great Bri ...ssimilated by the English, and their language in these areas survived into modern times. At the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of southern Britain, many Br
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• Cookstown
  |scots=Cookestoun ...Scots "planters". In 1620, a small portion was leased by James Stewart (a Scots settler in the area) and lands around the townland of Cor Criche were lease
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• Coatbridge
  ...t remaining iron works in the town. One publication has commented that in modern-day Coatbridge "coal, iron and steel have all been consigned to the heritag ...long the crest of Drumpellier, the west bank of Gartsherrie Burn and along modern day Bank Street. Kirkwood, Kirkshaws and Shawhead sit on a sandstone capped
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