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  ...s or the [[South Shetland Islands]], or the places between, Wikishire is a growing guide on all you need to know about the British and Irish lands. ...e. Each shire, from [[Kent]] to [[County Kerry|Kerry]] is here, with ever-growing detail; if your town or village is not in Wikishire, or if something import
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• County Armagh
  ...high days of the Ulster linen industry, the farms of Armagh were busy with growing, weaving and bleaching as a cottage industry, far different from the gloom
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• Scarborough
  ...of residential districts, business, fishing and service industries, and a growing digital and creative economy: in 2008 Scarborough was named the most enterp
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• Cornwall
  ...make it unsuitable for growing many arable crops. However, it is ideal for growing the rich grass required for dairying, leading to the production of Cornwall
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• Derbyshire
  ...were built during the early part of the 20th century to supply the rapidly growing populations of [[Sheffield]], [[Derby]] and [[Leicester]] with drinking wat
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• Devon
  ...on which, according to the Geographers, is the first of all Britaine, and, growing straiter still and narrower, shooteth out farthest into the West, […] was
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• County Durham
  ...es were built throughout the county in the nineteenth century to house the growing workforce, which included large numbers of migrant workers from the rest of In agriculture, mustard-growing is a local speciality.
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• Gloucestershire
  ...y D'Abitot - geograph.org.uk - 368724.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Wild Daffodils growing in the Forest of Dean]] ...us minor industries sprang up in the 17th and 18th centuries, such as flax-growing and the manufacture of pins, buttons, lace, stockings, rope and sailcloth.
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• Kirkcudbrightshire
  ...Glorious Revolution in 1689 and the Union settled in 1707, bringing peace. Growing commercial prosperity was marked oddly by the extent of smuggling on the Ga
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• Leicestershire
  ...Leicester and Loughborough. Birstall, with a population 11,400 in 2004 and growing claims to be the largest village in the county, or the largest in Britain o
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• Lincolnshire
  Lincolnshire is an agricultural area, growing large amounts of wheat, barley, sugar beet, and oilseed rape. In South Linc ...ices, activities and events. [[Sleaford]] is considered one of the fastest growing towns in the eastern Midlands, with many professional people moving there t
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• Norfolk
  ...since with the establishment of large fields for cereal and oil seed rape growing. Norfolk's low-lying land and easily eroded cliffs, many of which are chalk
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• Nottinghamshire
  ...k-on-Trent]] is a bridging point of the [[Fosse Way]] and [[River Trent]], growing from an Anglo-Saxon market town. Newark Castle lies in ruins along the riv
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• Orkney
  ...of the economy and the significant wind and marine energy resources are of growing importance. The local people are known as Orcadians and have a distinctive ...des of the 20th century there was a recovery and life in Orkney focused on growing prosperity and the emergence of a relatively classless society.<ref>Thomson
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• Roxburghshire
  There are pastoral and arable farms in the county; the growing crops are largely in the dales and the hillsides are green and grazed eager ...a north-easterly direction for 37 miles until it sheds its waters into the growing Tweed at [[Kelso]]. To the Teviot flow many lesser rivers and burns, includ
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• Yell
  ...any human habitation, that Oak, Scots Pine and Mediterranean heathers were growing here. The remains of these plants have been preserved in layers of ancient ...es include fishing, fish farming, farming (including commercial strawberry growing in polytunnels,<ref name=Blackadder/> mainly for the Shetland market), peat
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• Somerset
  ...hills. The main habitat on these hills is calcareous grassland, with some growing crops. The Somerset coalfield stretches beneath these hills, part of a larg ...ntre for the smart set, who flocked to Bath in season. This time saw Bath growing from a modest town to whose spa resorted the sickly into one of the glories
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• County Leitrim
  ...l. Agriculture improved over the last century. Leitrim now has the fastest growing population in Connaught. *Leitrim has the fastest growing population of any county in Connaught. As measured by census, the populatio
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• Saggart
  ...thcoole, Dublin|Rathcoole]], and [[Tallaght]]. This is one of the fastest growing settlements in Ireland, showing a population increase of 46.1% between 2011
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• Aberdeen
  ...The city is built on many hills, with the original beginnings of the city growing from Castle Hill, St Catherine's Hill and Windmill Hill.<ref>{{cite web|url There is also a dynamic and fast growing electronics design and development industry.
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• Fraserburgh
  ...son of the Old Parish Church, shows that the population of Fraserburgh was growing with peaks due to seasonal employment. He records a population of about 200 ...January 1840 by Rev. John Cumming. He records population in 1791 as 2215 growing to only 2271 by 1811, but increasing massively to 2954 by 1831. He consider
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• Inverurie
  ...g numbers of Aberdeen commuters going to live there making it "the fastest growing town in Great Britain".
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• Dundee
  ...of carpet manufacturing and the disappearance of the jute trade. To combat growing unemployment and declining economic conditions, Dundee was declared an Ente
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• Arbroath
  Arbroath was the location of the Battle of Arbroath in 1446, a private battle growing from a feud between the Chief Justiciary of Arbroath, Alexander Lindsay, th
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• Kirriemuir
  ...lamis]] and the Sidlaws over [[Strathmore]], one of the most fertile fruit growing areas in Scotland. Standing at the feet of the Angus glens, it is an attrac
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• Belfast
  ...lfast has begun a social, economic and cultural transformation giving it a growing international cultural reputation.<ref>{{cite web | title = Summary of the
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• Blackwood, Monmouthshire
  ...-tech firms. Good transport links has made Blackwood a favoured home for a growing number of commuters who work in the cities of [[Newport, Monmouthshire|Newp
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• Manchester
  ...ster then to be the "fastest-growing city" economically.<ref name="Fastest Growing City">{{Cite web|url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/news_article ...l service industries such as banking and insurance. Trade, and feeding the growing population, required a large transport and distribution infrastructure: the
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• Buckie
  ...lation of 40 with ten households and subsequent minutes show the community growing until the 1791 entry records 177 souls in 44 households.<ref name="sloch-po
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• Windsor
  * [http://www.theroyalwindsorwebsite.com Royal Windsor Website - An ever growing Reference Area for Windsor Past and Present]
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• Biggleswade
  Traditionally, Biggleswade has been a vegetable- and produce-growing area with trains often taking daily loads of vegetables to London's produce
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• Tavistock
  ...nts of Tavistock, and was completed in 1447. This is an indication of the growing importance of the textile industry to the local economy. ...ers to parliament. The abbey church was rebuilt in 1285. In 1305, with the growing importance of the area as one of Europe's richest sources of [[tin]], Tavis
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• Rousay
  ...Years. Charting the progress and involvement of an island’s community in growing trees.'' Orkney. Spring Ast LIX. ISBN 1-902582-50-0</ref>
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• Ashford, Kent
  ...t more to back them. Philpot believed ''Essetesford'' stood for "ash tree growing near a ford" (''æsc æt þe forde''), while Lampard, a 16th-century local ...land at the time. Writer Philpot believed Essetesford stood for "ash trees growing near a ford", while Lampard, a 16th-century local historian, suggested that
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• Chesham
  ...pulation had reached 20,000 since when it has only increased slightly. The growing popularity of the Chilterns as a place to live from the latter part of the
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• London
  ...f> The community set up the London Jewish Forum in 2007 in response to the growing significance of devolved London Government.<ref name=london_107>{{Cite web|
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• Kirkcaldy
  ...rtiel and to the east of Boreland. The farmland land hereabouts is arable, growing cereals, potatoes, field beans, other vegetables.
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• Stroud
  The industries growing in nineteenth century Stroud craved better transport links, and soon came t
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• Nairn
  Neighbouring [[Inverness]] is now the fastest-growing city in Scotland, which has put pressure on Nairn in turn. Land to the eas
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• Glasgow
  ...e 1950s. However, by the 1960s, a lack of investment and innovation led to growing overseas competition in countries like Japan and Germany which weakened the ...lies the 15th century Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship. Due to growing industrial pollution levels in the mid to late 19th century, the area fell
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• Blairgowrie
  Soft fruit growing, mainly raspberries and strawberries developed in the 20th century and beca
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• Oxford
  ...a free copy of every book published in the UK. As such, its collection is growing at a rate of over three miles (five kilometres) of shelving every year.<ref
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• Horsham
  ===Growing suburbs===
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• Inverness
  ...cotland |date= |accessdate=2010-08-12}}</ref> Inverness is now the fastest growing city in Scotland, already home to a quarter of the population of all the Hi
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• Leeds
  ...to the recent Office for National Statistics estimates, it is the fastest growing city in the United Kingdom.
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• Liverpool
  Liverpool's growing Hindu community has a ''mandir'' on 253 Edge Lane; the Radha Krishna Hindu
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• Plymouth
  ...ar Science Park employing 500 people in 50 companies, which is the fastest growing science park in the United Kingdom.<ref name="economy"/>
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• Yelverton, Devon
  ...arm during the Elizabethan period, but converted in the 1850s to cater for growing tourism in the area. The area to the south and west of the roundabout whic
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• St Ives, Cornwall
  ...the St Ives Society of Artists; however events in the late 1940s led to a growing dispute between the abstract and figurative artists within the group. In 19
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• Acton, Middlesex
  ...number of houses, poor rates had to be increased in the 1820s because of a growing number of empty dwellings.<ref name=growth/>
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• Isleworth
  ...es) and revenues of several English parish church lands and, responding to growing disquiet over these foreign holdings, in 1391 it transferred those of Islew
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• Ruislip
  ...ral, William de Guineville, under the ownership of Bec Abbey, to serve the growing population. He used the priory at Manor Farm as his main residence <ref>Bow
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• Southall
  ...e [[Grand Junction Canal]]) which first linked London with the rest of the growing canal system. It was one of the last canals to carry significant commercial *Tim Lott, author (his debut ''The Scent Of Dried Roses'' is about growing up in Southall) was born there in 1956
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• Uxbridge
  * Skinner, James. (2008) ''Growing Up In Wartime Uxbridge''. Stroud: Tempus Publishing ISBN 978-0-7524-4543-4
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• Fenton, Staffordshire
  ...with its own board of guardians in 1894. By this time the six towns were growing together.
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• Headingley
  ...ey Network, taking place for the ninth time in September 2009. It has been growing and developing since the first one in September 2001. The main intentions a
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• Bicester
  ...hanks to its good, modern transport links and it is now one of the fastest growing towns in Oxfordshire.<ref>Census 1951-2001</ref> Development has been favo
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• British flags
  ...finches and a patterned line cleverly depicting ears of wheat. This is a growing phenomenon and a field of endeavour worthy of encouragement, for while some
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• Lichfield
  ...in the neighbourhood were large market gardens which provided food for the growing populations of nearby [[Birmingham]] and the [[Black Country]].
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• Dartmoor
  ...ey shift (or 'quake') beneath your feet. Quakers result from sphagnum moss growing over the water that accumulates in the hollows in the granite.<ref>Ian Merc
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• River Ouzel
  ...undary of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, initially as a small brook and growing to be a respectable river at [[Leighton Buzzard]]. North of that town, the
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• Stokenchurch
  ...and a Methodist church, shops, several village pubs, a library, and slowly growing residential areas, along with surrounding farmland, complete this village b
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• Leith
  ...moved to Leith in 1994, spuring more revival by further fostering Leith's growing reputation as a white-collar, small business location. Further large-scale
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• Alloway
  ...the sea across a broad beach. Alloway is now partly contiguous with Ayr, growing into a suburb the two separated by narrow parks and a golf course.
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• Stratford-upon-Avon
  ...chnology, and call centre and service sector activities (both of which are growing sectors), a large motor sales sector, industrial plant hire, building suppl
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• St Clears
  ...will grow good crops of potatoes and cereals, and the climate allows fruit growing as well. Although most of the land is farmed commercially the area is a hav
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• Wallasey
  ...rries across the river. The area also had a defensive role overlooking the growing Port of Liverpool. In 1829, Fort Perch Rock was built, and in 1858 Liscard
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• Falmouth
  ...between 1689 and 1851. Its purpose was to carry mail to and from Britain's growing empire. As the most south-westerly good harbour in Great Britain Falmouth w
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• Newquay
  ...St Columb Minor have long since become suburbs of Newquay and it is still growing. The development plan for Newquay Cornwall International Airport includes s
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• Penzance
  ...s by members of the Newlyn School. Within Penzance town centre there are a growing number of commercial art galleries.
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• Gibraltar
  [[File:Iberis gibraltarica.JPG|thumb|200px|Gibraltar candytuft growing at the Botanic Gardens]] ...is endemic to Gibraltar, being the only place in Europe where it is found growing in the wild. It is the symbol of the Upper Rock nature reserve. Among the w
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• Brampton, Cumberland
  William Howard School is host to "Brampton Live" every summer, an ever-growing music festival that has, since its first appearance in 1995, become the lar
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• Corby
  ...01, but figures released in March 2010 revealed that Corby has the fastest growing population in England and Wales.
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• Ascension Island
  ...tain]] is now one of the few large-scale planned forests, and is gradually growing with each year. Its highest point is at 2,817&nbsp; feet. ...sion. Charles Darwin described it as an arid treeless island, with nothing growing near the coast. Sparse vegetation inland supported "about six hundred sheep
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• United Kingdom
  ...t intensified in the nineteenth, transforming the country and fuelling the growing [[British Empire]]. The Atlantic slave trade was finally forbidden by the
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• Isle of Wight
  ...d on natural heritage, including both wildlife and geology, are becoming a growing alternative to the traditional British seaside holiday, which went into dec
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• Wrexham
  ...proximately 25% of jobs in Wrexham are in the manufacturing sector, with a growing number in service, financial and technology industries. ...opment of the town in the 19th century, the need for a formal park for the growing population was identified. However it was not until 1906 that the location
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• Poole
  ...le, and the right to appoint a mayor and hold a court within town. Poole's growing importance was recognised in 1433 when it was awarded staple port status by
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• Shaftesbury
  ...hter Æþelgiefu founded Shaftesbury Abbey in 888, which was a spur to the growing importance of the town. Athelstan founded three royal mints, which struck p
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• Bangor, County Down
  With the growing popularity of inexpensive foreign holidays from the 1960s onwards, Bangor d
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• Clydebank
  ...and their own, strong local identities separate from that of the town, and growing it has encroached upon more of the surrounding lands of the county to becom At the start of the 1870s, however, the growing trade and industry in [[Glasgow]] left the city's wharves overwhelmed and t
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• Kirkintilloch
  ...cond World War period, with several new amenities erected to cater for the growing population of the town and its surrounding villages. New shopping facilitie
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• Lockerbie
  ...k funded by the Lockerbie Trust. The Lodge's objective is to be a living, growing, flexible facility that can respond to the needs of visitors and the commun
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• Gateshead
  ...ron businesses in the North, producing anchors, chains and so on to meet a growing demand. There was keen contemporary rivalry between 'Hawks' Blacks' and 'Cr
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• West Wickham, Kent
  ...the Wars however saw rapid development and the village was engulfed by the growing metropolis, West Wickham itself becoming transformed into a suburb popular
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• Darlington
  | accessdate=18 January 2008}}</ref> There is now growing evidence, however, that the now-completed changes are meeting with local ap
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• Hartlepool
  Hartlepool was founded in the 7th century AD, growing around the Northumbrian monastery of Hartlepool Abbey. The village grew dur
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• Battersea
  ...d surrounding population centres; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill (nowadays denoted by the road of the same name),
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• Bermondsey
  ...within the metropolitan conurbation, having been swallowed up in London's growing urban spread from its earliest times, and is completely contiguous with the ...ermondsey.org, Accessed 5 August 2012</ref> A new church was built for the growing population of the area, and named St John Horsleydown.
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• Carshalton
  ...e increasing land demand for residential building put an end to commercial growing.
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• Chobham
  ...th playing at a good standard of cricket. The Cricket club also has a fast growing colt section and run teams at U9 level through to U17. All ages groups are
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• Claygate
  In about 1822 the Claygate Pearmain apple was discovered by John Braddick, growing in a hedge at Claygate.
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• Bournemouth
  ...ent has spread out from what was once a modest coastal village to meet the growing areas of the nearby towns, so that townscape now runs east and west joining
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• South Oxhey
  ...ep"'' by Rose McNamara-Wright (a brief history of South Oxhey for children growing up during the war as told through the author's own experiences)
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• Colchester
  ...ction_2010/england/8626127.stm | work=BBC News | title=Concerns over 'fast-growing' town | date=2010-04-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gazette-news
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• Newport, Pembrokeshire
  ...Marcher Lordship of Cemais and it was a busy port founded primarily on the growing mediæval wool trade. It would remain within the FitzMartin family until th
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• Doversgreen
  ...war housing development. St Peter's Church was built in 1955 to serve the growing community.
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• Dudley
  ...was rapidly industrialised in the 18th and 19th centuries, its population growing dramatically. Due to its heavy and highly polluting industries it became a
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• Somerset Levels
  ...has been extensively studied for its biodiversity and heritage, and has a growing tourism industry.
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• Cowdenbeath
  Another significant mining-related building, which reflected Cowdenbeath's growing status at the forefront of mining technology, was the establishment of the
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