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• Buteshire
  ...[[Isle of Bute]] and the [[Isle of Arran]], and smaller islands such as [[Great Cumbrae]] and [[Little Cumbrae]]. Although Arran encompasses most of the sh ...r islands are inhabited ([[Isle of Bute|Bute]], [[Isle of Arran|Arran]], [[Great Cumbrae]] and [[Holy Isle, Buteshire|Holy Island]]) and only six are larger
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• Derbyshire
  ...[[Coton in the Elms]], Derbyshire, as the furthest point from the sea in [[Great Britain]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/3090539.stm B ...ed tombs were designed for collective burial and are mostly located in the central Derbyshire region.<ref name=pevsner22/> Tombs in Minning Low, and Five Well
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• Dorset
  Dorset's long coast stretches from [[Poole]] in the east, and the great gulf of [[Poole Harbour]], around the [[Isle of Purbeck]] and along a coast ...It has Iron Age hill forts of [[Maiden Castle]] and [[Hod Hill]] and the great defensive ditch, Bokerley Dyke, said to have delayed the English from advan
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• Leicestershire
  ...xon, Danish and Mediæval roots under a substantial modern city undergoing great social transformation. **[[Great Glen, Leicestershire|Great Glen]]
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• Northamptonshire
  ...rosperity in Northamptonshire; something shown by the remarkable number of great Anglo-Saxon churches which survive in the county, most notably those at [[B ...rth generation after Lawrence's days, John Washington (George Washington's great-grandfather) emigrated in 1656 from Northamptonshire to the colony of Virgi
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• Lancaster Canal
  ...them to continue paying dividends and to make investments. Eventually, the railway company offered to buy the canal, and this was formalised by an Act of Parl ...imestone fissures in the bed, and in 1939 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, who were by now owners of the canal, obtained an Act to close the first ha
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• Shropshire
  ...t attraction as well as the Iron Bridge itself. In addition, Telford Steam Railway runs from [[Horsehay]]. The county was a central part of the Welsh Marches during the Middle Ages and was often embroiled in
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• Somerset
  ...th are found the Georgian glories of [[Bath]] and the southern half of the great city of [[Bristol]]. ...commonly if more correctly known) are a sparsely populated wetland area of central Somerset, between the Quantock and Mendip hills. They consist of marine cla
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• Surrey
  ...ey''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the south-east of [[Great Britain]]. It is one of the "Home Counties". Beyond the urban sprawl of the northeast and curbing its onward spread, a great deal of Surrey's land is in the [[Metropolitan Green Belt]].
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• Wiltshire
  ...nnet & Avon Middle Thames: Pearson's Canal Companion |year=2003 |publisher=Central Waterways Supplies|location=Rugby |isbn=0-907864-97-X}}</ref> In 878 the Da ...from [[Bristol]] to [[London]] until the development of the Great Western Railway.
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• Todmorden
  Todmorden is served by two railway stations; Todmorden and Walsden. ...n the longest tunnel in the world, the 2,885 yard Summit Tunnel. A second railway, from Todmorden to Burnley, opened as a single line in 1849, being doubled
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• Manchester
  ...l waterway, was opened in 1761, bringing coal from mines at [[Worsley]] to central Manchester. The canal was extended to the Mersey at Runcorn by 1776. The co ...s concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The great majority of cotton spinning took place in the towns of south Lancashire and
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• Birkenhead
  During winter months, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company operates a service from Birkenhead to [[Douglas, Isle of Man In 1886 Birkenhead and [[Liverpool]] were linked by an underground railway system, which today is part of the Merseyrail network.
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• Elgin
  ...sons while the 13th century construction still remains. In 1506, the great central tower collapsed and although rebuilding work began the next year it was not ...between 1650 and 1660 by Cromwell's soldiers. On Easter Sunday, 1711, the central tower collapsed for the second time in its history but caused much more dam
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• Liverpool
  As a major British port, the docks in Liverpool have historically been central to the city's development. Several major docking firsts have occurred in th ...ollectively known as ''The Three Graces'', and stand as a testament to the great wealth in the city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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• Exeter
  ...f>Dun & Bradstreet, 2001</ref> The city has good transport links, with two railway stations, the M5 motorway and Exeter International Airport connecting the c ...0s,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba65/feat2.shtml|title=Great Sites: Exeter Roman Baths|work=British Archaeology magazine|date=June 2002|
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• Brentford
  '''New Brentford''' has also been called West Brentford or Great Brentford, and lies to the west of Old Brentford, standing on each side of ..., accompanied with thunder and lightning, caused a sudden flood, which did great damage to the town of Brentford. Water covered the whole town; boats rowed
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• Ruislip
  ...ginal village square and are now Grade II listed. It originally featured a central water pump which was moved out of the road in the 1970s as a result of incr ...pulation, from 6,217 to 72,791, largely attributed to the extension of the railway.
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• Southall
  The southern part of Southall (roughly south of the railway) used to be known as Southall Green (and a section of the main north-south ...n a commercial boom, intensified by the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway in 1839, leading to the establishment and growth of brick factories, flour
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• Twickenham
  ...d Distinction who often in an Evening Walk near that place, and desired so great a Nuisance might be removed,....}} ...is burned together with saltpetre (potassium nitrate), in the presence of steam. The process generates an extremely unpleasant smell, which caused objectio
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• Whitehaven
  Whitehaven is on the A595 road which links the coastal towns and has a railway station served by the coastal line up to [[Carlisle]]. ...t young in trade.''<ref>Daniel Defoe: ''A tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain''.</ref>
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• Isle of Wight
  ...hire]] in the [[English Channel]], 3–5&nbsp;miles off the south coast of Great Britain. It is separated from the main body of Hampshire by a strait calle The rest of the Island's landscape also has great diversity, with perhaps the most notable habitats being the soft cliffs and
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• Newton Aycliffe
  It has a population of 29,000 people<ref>Great Aycliffe Town Council, 2007</ref>, other reports put the population between ===The coming of the railway===
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• Croydon
  |constituency=Croydon Central<br>Croydon North<br>Croydon South Croydon sits on the natural transport corridor between London and Great Britain's south coast, just to the north of two gaps in the [[North Downs]]
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• Oldham
  ...rly constructed residential dwellings and streets loosely centred around a central business district in the town centre, which is the local centre of commerce ...s population was employed within the textile sector, compared to 5% across Great Britain.<ref name="Foster">{{cite book|last=Foster|first=John|title=Class S
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• Barry
  ...with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a business that helped over 200 historic steam locomotives survive into preservation. ...ough Barry is more of a manufacturing town and as a service centre for the central Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjoining industrial area form the largest e
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• Merthyr Tydfil
  ...6877.jpg|thumb|left|The Cefn Coed Viaduct built for the Brecon and Merthyr Railway]] ...Museum in Swansea. The tramway passed through what is arguably the oldest railway tunnel in the world, part of which can still be seen alongside Pentrebach R
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• Basingstoke
  ...threshing machines in the 1850s, moving into the production of stationary steam engines in the 1860s and then traction engines in the 1870s. In 1898 John Isaac Thornycroft began production of steam-powered lorries in the town and Thornycroft's quickly grew to become the to
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• Deptford
  ...oyal Dockyards. This was a major shipbuilding dock and attracted Peter the Great to come and study shipbuilding. Deptford and the docks are associated with ...rne crosses under the A2 at roughly the same spot as the [[Docklands Light Railway]] crosses over; and at the point where it becomes tidal, just after Lewisha
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• Coatbridge
  ...rkshire]], about 10 miles east of [[Glasgow]] city centre, set amongst the central Lowlands. The town forms part of a conurbation with neighbouring Airdrie. ...d the iron industry in Coatbridge was in rapid terminal decline. After the Great Depression the Gartsherrie ironwork was the last remaining iron works in th
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• Preston
  In the last great Jacobite Rising, on 27 November 1745 the Jacobite "Young Pretender" Prince ...etings. The website of the University of Central Lancashire library has a great deal of information on Joseph Livesey and the Temperance Movement in Presto
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• Warrington
  ...ersey was made navigable in the 18th century, and Warrington joined in the great industrial prosperity of the towns of south Lancashire. ...s north to south through the town, and the [[Liverpool]] to [[Manchester]] railway (the Cheshire Lines route) west to east. The [[Manchester Ship Canal]] cuts
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• Bolton
  ...0&word=NULL|publisher=visionofbritain.org.uk|accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> Great Bolton and Little Bolton were part of the Marsey fee, in 1212 Little Bolton ...were situated by the streams and river as seen today at Barrow Bridge, but steam power led to the construction of the large multi-storey mills and chimneys
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• Leicester
  ...n became Cathedral in 1927. The tomb of King Richard III is located in the central nave of the cathedral although he is not actually buried there. He was orig Lady Jane Grey, (1536/7 — 12 February 1554), a great-granddaughter of Henry VII, reigned as uncrowned Queen Regnant of England f
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• Lincoln
  ...d the central of the three spires is widely accepted to have succeeded the Great Pyramids of Egypt as the tallest man-made structure in the world. The administrative centre was the Bishop's Palace, the third element in the central complex. When it was built in the late 12th century, the Bishop's Palace wa
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• Leatherhead
  ...dworth of nearby Thorncroft Manor, who was Lord Mayor of London during the Great Fire of London of 1666. ...therhead Food Research. The same area of west Leatherhead was home to the Central Electricity Research Laboratory (CERL), the main research lab for the CEGB
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• Great Yarmouth
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• Putney
  ...bert the Ferryman of Putney and other sailors received 3/6d for carrying a great part of the royal family across the Thames and also for taking the king and ...lling out of favour with Henry VIII and being removed as the holder of the Great Seal of England. As he was riding up Putney Hill he was overtaken by one o
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• Falkirk
  The [[Antonine Wall]], which stretches across the Central Lowlands from the Clyde to the Forth, passed through the town and remnants ...the iron-casting industry. James Watt cast some of the beams for his early steam engine designs at the Carron Iron Works in 1765. To this day, cast-iron coo
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• Swindon
  ...eached Swindon in 1842, bringing factories in its wake, led by the Swindon railway works. Swindon New Town was a nineteenth century creation, which the twenti ...he station on the line from London Paddington to Bristol. It is home to a railway heritage museum and to the Bodleian Library's book depository too, which co
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• Beacon Hill, Leicestershire
  ...Hall. The visitor can also see and hear steam trains on the Great Central Railway which has stations at [[Loughborough]], [[Quorn]] and [[Woodhouse]].
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• York
  |constituency=York Central, York Outer ...he economy of York has moved from being dominated by its confectionery and railway-related industries to one that provides services. The University of York an
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• Humber
  The Humber is formed from the confluence of two great rivers; the [[River Ouse, Yorkshire|Yorkshire Ouse]] and the [[River Trent] ...] on the south bank and [[Kingston upon Hull]] on the north, with a single central span of almost a mile; when built, it was the longest bridge in the world.
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• Middlesbrough
  ...larence Railway, in 1833, which shared some of the Stockton and Darlington Railway's track, also provided the stimulus for the growth of Port Clarence on the ...lt Middlesbrough Dock which was then bought by the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company.
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• Harrogate
  ...town were ICI, who occupied offices and laboratories at Hornbeam Park, the Central Electricity Generating Board, and the Milk Marketing Board. ICI's laborator Also in and about Harrogate are the Great Yorkshire Showground and Pavilions of Harrogate, which are major conference
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• Dartford
  ...also had their place. Fulling was another: the cleansing of wool needed a great deal of water, which the river could provide. This led to other water-based ...brass plaque commemorating the work of Richard Trevithick, the pioneer of steam propulsion, who lived, worked and died in the town.
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• Faversham
  ...Road access for the workers was poor, so the Admiralty built a metre-gauge railway to transport them from a terminus at [[Davington]], near the Home Works, to ...andard.aspx?i_PageID=35814| publisher=Faversham.org| title=Davington Light Railway| accessdate=2008-04-08}}</ref>
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• River Darent
  [[File:DartfordDarent3794.JPG|thumb|200px|The Darent flowing through Central Park, Dartford]] ...erted to a laundry, and the waterwheel was removed c1914 to be replaced by steam power. The mill was demolished in October 1969.
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• River Etherow
  ...at the confluence of the [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] and the Goyt, in central [[Stockport]], 4 miles downstream.<ref name=QuayleC>{{Harvnb|Quayle|2006|p= ...Black-headed Gulls and Canada Geese. The woodlands are home to Redstart, Great Spotted Woodpecker, and Spotted Flycatcher.<ref name=SAFS21>{{Citation | la
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• Burnley
  By 1830 there were 32 steam engines in cotton mills throughout the rapidly expanding town,<ref name="Sh ...ny's extension from [[Accrington]] linked the town to the nation's nascent railway network for the first time.<ref name="Short"/> This was another significant
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• Dewsbury
  ...aduct, and nothing remains of Market Place Station. The 19th century saw a great increase in population, rising from 4,566 in 1801 to around 30,000 by 1890. ...engine, Providence Mills - geograph.org.uk - 688602.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Steam engine, Providence Mills, Dewsbury]]
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• Doncaster
  |constituency=Doncaster – Central / North ...n, a cavalry unit which took its name from Crispus, son of Constantine the Great. Crispus, son of the Emperor, lived at Danum while his father was 40 miles
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• Teignmouth
  ...eorgian times, with further expansion after the opening of the South Devon Railway in 1846. Today, its port still operates and the town remains a popular seas ...ificant trade at this time, though cod fishing in Newfoundland was also of great importance.<ref>Trump 1986, p.3</ref>
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• Flixborough
  ...ne of the [[Thankful Villages]]; those which lost none of their men in the Great War (1914-1918). It is indeed Twice-Thankful, for all its men returned ali ...ent]] to [[Amcotts]], and the Gainsborough and [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]] steam packets call here on Tuesdays and Fridays. The old church of All Saints, a
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• Salford
  ...nce to it in streets and edifices; contains several public buildings and a great public park, which belong fully more to Manchester than to itself".<ref nam ...gineer's Department of the City of Salford recorded one such incident near Great Clowes Street in February 1882, and others in 1886, 1887 and 1888. In 1892
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• Manchester Ship Canal
  ...sable, and Manchester's business community viewed Liverpool's dock and the railway companies' charges as excessive. A ship canal was proposed as a way of givi ...n extension was completed in 1776 and in 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened. In 1844 the Bridgewater Trustees acquired the Mersey & Irwell Navig
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• Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
  |name=Buckinghamshire Railway Centre |owner=Quainton Railway Society Ltd
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• Silloth
  ...with many of the sea facing properties having received facelifts. The main central attraction is a large expansive green that is utilised throughout the year ...val <ref>http://www.sillothbeerfestival.co.uk</ref> held in September, its steam rally, kite and food festivals. By far the town's largest annual event is S
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• Atherstone
  ...which battle the Romans defeated Boudica Queen of the Iceni and ended the "Great Rebellion" against the Roman tyranny. In part due to its central location in Britain (on the main A5 national route and close to the M42 mot
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• New Mills
  ...and calico printing. New Mills was served by the Peak Forest Canal, three railway lines and the A6 trunk road. Redundant mills were bought up in the mid-twen The sides of the Goyt valley have been used to carry two railway lines, the Peak Forest Canal and the A6 trunk road between [[London]] and [
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• Finchley
  The mediæval [[Great North Road]], which ran through the common, was notorious for highwaymen un The Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (later the Great Northern Railway) reached Finchley in 1867.<ref name=CULG_1>[http://www.davros.org/rail/culg
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• Hendon
  The Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railways were built through Hendon in the 1860s, a which triggered ...he civil parish of [[Edgware]] was abolished and its area was added to the great civil parish of Hendon.
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• Kennet and Avon Canal
  ...he canal gradually fell into disuse after the opening of the Great Western Railway. In the latter half of the 20th century the canal was restored in stages, l ...to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the central canal section. From [[Bristol]] to [[Bath]], the waterway follows the natur
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• Dún Laoghaire
  It is a major port of entry from [[Great Britain]], though less busy since the Port of Dublin took over much of the ...eland, who chose the site as a sea base from which to carry out raids on [[Great Britain]] and Gaul. Traces of fortifications from that time have been found
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• Barking
  ...[[Essex]] within the metropolitan conurbation. It is about nine miles from central London and is one of 35 "major centres" of the conurbation identified in th ...industrial development to the south adjacent to the [[River Thames]]. The railway station opened in 1854 and was served by electric [[London Underground]] se
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• History of Middlesex
  ...'s [[City of London|City]]. In their day, ''Londinium'' became one of the great cities of the Empire. The Romans built roads out of London all across Midd ...me within reach of the tram and bus networks, providing cheap transport to central London.<ref name="LSE London"/>
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• Ilford
  ...olchester road caused it to develop as a coaching town. The arrival of the railway in 1839 eventually accelerated that growth and as part of the suburban grow Ilford was historically known as '''Great Ilford''' to differentiate it from nearby [[Little Ilford]] nearby.<ref nam
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• Cinderford
  ...ord-churches.org.uk/our-churches/bilson-mission Bilson Mission] covers the central town and northern parts of Cinderford. ...r run by the Great Western Railway and Midland Railway as Cinderford Joint railway station, but this was axed as part of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.<ref>{
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• Floating Harbour
  ...ce of no more than {{convert|0.65|mi|km|1}} apart. At Bristol Temple Meads railway station, the floating harbour occupies the original bed of the River Avon a ...America in 1497. The historic vessels of M Shed museum, which include the steam tug ''Mayflower'', firefloat ''Pyronaut'' and motor tug ''John King'', are
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• Brading
  ...substantial embankment right across the harbour, with the building of the railway to [[Bembridge]]. ...] and the Spinnaker Tower at [[Portsmouth]]. This elevated site is also of great archaeological importance, with prehistoric, Roman and mediæval remains, a
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• New Alresford
  ...n of the [[Watercress Line]], a steam-worked heritage railway at Alresford railway station. The bishop's expansion of the new town also involved the construction of the Great Weir between New Alresford and [[Old Alresford]], creating Old Alresford Po
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• Fleetwood
  ...ans were complete by 1835, and construction of the first buildings and the railway line began in 1836. ...Queen Victoria in 1847, but by the mid-1850s the completion of the western railway link between London and Glasgow over [[Shap Fell]] rendered Fleetwood's rol
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• River Welland
  ...], to reach The Wash near [[Fosdyke]]. It is a major waterway across the [[Great Fen|the Fens]] of [[Holland]], and is one of the Fenland rivers which were ...the Welland in the centre of Market Harborough, flowing northwards to the railway station.
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• Sutton Bridge
  ...er Nene. The name of the river changed as a result of redirection of the [[Great Ouse]] during the 17th century, and Bishop's Lynn became King's Lynn as a r ===Railway===
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• Cullen
  ...bridges were necessary at considerable cost due to resistance against the railway line being routed any closer to Cullen House. The most westerly, and by far ...with the civil governance and the latter with church governance up to the Great Disruption of 1843. Cullen received royal burgh status between 1153 and 121
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• Greenford
  ...and 'ford' and means 'place at the green ford'. Greenford was known as '''Great Greenford''' in order to distinguish it from Little Greenford, which is now ...inks from both the [[Grand Union Canal]] and the Great Western Railway's [[Great Western Main Line]], and the [[West Coast Main Line]] and onwards to the Mi
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• Watchet
  ...axons took Watchet from the native Britons around AD 680. Under Alfred the Great (AD 871−901) Watchet became an important Saxon port, and the site of a mi ...don Hills, and the West Somerset Railway came up from the Bristol & Exeter Railway at [[Norton Fitzwarren]].<ref name="somharbours"/>
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• Ffestiniog Railway
  |name=Ffestiniog Railway |ownership=Festiniog Railway Company
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• Rhondda Valley
  ...a" from this valley. To ''Cwm Rhondda'' is sung the hymn "Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer", and in its original Welsh version, ''Arglwydd, arwain trwy'r ani ...k in Glynn Colliery in [[Llantwit Fardre]] and later became a clerk at the Great Western Colliery in [[Pontypridd]] where he worked for over 40 years. He se
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• Peak District
  An area of great diversity, it is conventionally split into the northern [[Dark Peak]], wher The central and southern section of the Peak District, where the Carboniferous Limeston
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• Bridgewater Canal
  ...ia". It later faced intense competition from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the [[Macclesfield Canal]]. Navigable throughout its history, it is on ...r, owned some of the coal mines dug to supply Lancashire with fuel for the steam engines instrumental in powering the industrial revolution.<ref name=pb15>{
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• Grimsthorpe Castle
  ...martial – the towers and outlying pavilions recalling the bastions of a great fortress in classical dress. ...of a ridge on the road inland from the Lincolnshire fen edge towards the [[Great North Road]]. It is said to have been begun by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lin
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• Undy
  ...ide of the village. It has a clubhouse and dedicated pitches alongside the railway line and is the focal point for many sporting and social activities === Railway ===
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• Auchterhouse
  ...aerial photography, and a stone circle at Templelands was destroyed during railway construction in the 19th century.<ref name="archaeology">{{cite web|title=T ...=railway>[http://www.auchterhouse.com/history/railway.htm Dundee–Newtyle Railway] - Auchterhouse Community Council</ref>
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• Mallaig
  ...ss-shire]]. The local railway station is the terminus of the West Highland railway line (''Fort William & Mallaig'' branch), completed in 1901, and the town i ...local economy expanded rapidly in the 20th century with the arrival of the railway.<ref name="story"/> Ferries operated by Caledonian MacBrayne and Bruce Watt
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• Drogheda
  In 1825 the Drogheda Steam Packet Company was formed in the town, providing shipping services to [[Liv ...Empire sent financial aid and ships laden with food to Drogheda during the Great Famine. That there is no evidence of any such a connection, but plenty tha
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• Coalbrookdale
  ...ce was occupied by Shadrach Fox. He renewed the lease in 1696, letting the Great Forge and Plate Forge to Wellington.<ref>Baugh (1985), p. 45-49</ref> Some ...t of the reverberatory furnace. The Company also became early suppliers of steam engine cylinders in this period.
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• Bredbury
  ...years ago a Roman coin was dug up on the edge of the road between Bredbury railway station and St Mark's Church. The coin long antedates any Roman occupation ...ed. By this time too, the wolves of [[Longdendale]] had been exterminated. Great flocks of sheep grazed on the moors and hillsides of the district, sheep fa
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• Forest of Dean
  ...an Orogeny, similar to the South Wales coalfield to the west. Underlain by great thicknesses of the Old Red Sandstone, the basin is filled with Carboniferou ...an temple complex dedicated to the god Nodens was completed at Lydney. The central parts of the woodlands in the forest are believed to have been protected fo
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• Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
  |name=Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway |picture caption=Toddington railway station
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• Netley Hospital
  ...the year of our Lord 1856, by Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the foundation stone of the Victoria Military Hospit ...ted to 560 feet in length and not reaching deep water.<ref name=Fair17/> A railway line connected Netley to Southampton docks on 5 March 1866.<ref name=Fair30
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• University of Glasgow
  ...ch as the University Marine Biological Station Millport on the island of [[Great Cumbrae]] in [[Buteshire]] and the Crichton Campus in [[Dumfries]]. ...the section of mental health and well being at Gartnavel Royal Hospital on Great Western Road, and the Crichton campus in Dumfries, operated jointly by the
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• Quorn
  ...ailway network. The station is now on the preserved [[Great Central Steam Railway]]. Numerous royal visitors have disembarked at the station to take part in
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• Birstall, Leicestershire
  |picture caption=St James the Great, Birstall ...ill filling station, which became a Grade II listed building in 2012. The railway also forms the boundary of the southern end of Birstall Golf Club.
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• Battlefield Line Railway
  |name=Battlefield Line Railway |owned=Shackerstone Railway Society
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• Great Central Railway
  |name=Great Central Railway |picture=4141 Great Central Railway (1).jpg
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• Lincolnshire Wolds Railway
  |name=Lincolnshire Wolds Railway |operator=Lincolnshire Wolds Railway
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• Royal Albert Bridge
  ...his gives it a total length of 2187½ ft. It carries the Cornish Main Line railway in and out of Cornwall. ==Cornwall Railway==
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• River Idle
  ...llel to an outfall at Althorpe on the Trent.<ref name=cory49/> There was a great deal of dissatisfaction with the drainage scheme, which resulted in claims ...ove it was in the way when the Great Northern Railway was constructed. The Railway Company constructed a new cut for the river, but the channel to the wharf s
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• Churnet Valley Railway
  |name=Churnet Valley Railway |picture=Churnet Valley Railway, 1940s weekend.jpg
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