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  • ...It is one of the larger towns of Cornwall, swollen by its connection with the City of Plymouth. ..."the gateway to Cornwall" for the ferries from Devon and two bridges cross the broad Tamar here.
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  • |picture=Inch Garvie, taken from the Forth Rail Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 544611.jpg ..."rough island". Local tradition has it that the island takes its name from the young herring, or "garvies" which sheltered in large shoals around its shor
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  • |picture=Wigan Pier and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.jpg |picture caption=Wigan Pier on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
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  • ...1603 as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".<ref>Owen, George, ''The Description of Penbrokshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes'', Henr ...k road, on the A478, and on the railway; it has its own railway station on the line to [[Tenby]] and [[Pembroke]].
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  • [[File:mourne mountains.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Mourne Wall, looking towards Hare's Gap]] [[File:Mournes wiki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Mournes from St John's Point, County Down]]
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  • |picture=The Marchmont Piccotts End Hemel Hempstead - geograph.org.uk - 43673.jpg ...nsive urban area, but careful planning has kept green space between it and the town.
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  • ...e rebuilt in 1782, which has pews that face one another rather than facing the communion table. ...ose which lost no men in the First World War, and the only such village in the county.
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  • |picture caption-=The market cross in Market Place '''Garstang''' is a small town in [[Lancashire]], ten miles north of the city of [[Preston]] and eleven miles south of [[Lancaster]].
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  • ...entrance to the [[Lemaire Channel]] on the [[Antarctic Peninsula]] within the [[British Antarctic Territory]]. ...Journal, 1998 (pub. The Mountaineers Books) ISBN 0-930410-78-5</ref> With the highest summit at 2,450 feet.
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  • ...sh Channel]] coast in [[Kent]]. The line is 13½ miles long and runs from the [[Cinque Port]] of [[Hythe, Kent|Hythe]] by way of [[Dymchurch]], [[St Mary ...dent at Monza before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.
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  • |constituency=Penrith and The Border ...River Tyne|River South Tyne]]. It is one of the highest-elevation towns in the country, at about 1,000 feet above sea level.
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  • ...area, part of the [[Tristan da Cunha]] group of islands, which are part of the [[British overseas territory|overseas territory]] of [[St Helena, Ascension Nightingale Island is part of the [[Nightingale Islands]], which also includes islets [[Middle Island, Trista
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  • |picture caption=The Eastgate over the High Street in 1983 ...of the [[River Dart]] in eastern [[Devon]]. It is about 22 miles south of the city of [[Exeter]].
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  • ...t the mouth of the [[River Neet]] (also known locally as the River Strat). The town was formerly sometimes known as '''Bude Haven'''.<ref name="autogenera ...lly it is along the A3073 road off the A39. Bude's coast faces Bude Bay in the [[Atlantic Ocean]].
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  • |name=The Crown Bar |picture=The Crown Bar, Belfast (2).jpg
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  • |picture caption=The seafront at Frinton-on-Sea ...War. It is now contiguous with [[Walton-on-the-Naze]] to the north along the coast.
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  • '''Ilford''' is a large town in [[Essex]], within the metropolitan conurbation. Ilford is a significant commercial and retail cen ...Barking]] to the south, [[Gants Hill]] to the north and [[Seven Kings]] to the east.
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  • '''Malmesbury''' is a delightful market town in [[Wiltshire]], in the southern [[Cotswolds]], at whose heart is its vast and ancient church, Malm ...astic centre, the town owned by and focused on Malmesbury Abbey, and while the abbey was dissolved under King Henry VIII, a sizeable part of its structure
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  • {{#vardefine:shire|South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands}} '''Southern Thule''' is a collection of the three southernmost islands in the [[South Sandwich Islands]]:
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  • ...story dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, and has held a weekly market since the Middle Ages. ==The town==
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