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  • ...also lies to the south. Clackmannanshire itself has a detached part to the south-west in a crook of the [[River Forth]] adjacent to [[Stirling]] on the oppo The county's main river, the [[River Devon, Clackmannanshire|River Devon]] rises on these hills.
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  • |name=Devon |map image=Devon Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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  • ...ltshire]] to the north-east, and [[Hampshire]] to the east. Outside the “South East Dorset conurbation”, most of the county is largely rural and agricul ...[[Jurassic Coast]]” as far as [[Lyme Regis]], close to the border with Devon.
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  • ...istol Channel]] from the [[River Avon, Somerset|Avon]] to the borders of [[Devon]] on Exmoor and deep inland blessed with rich farmland. ...iltshire]] to the east, [[Dorset]] to the south-east, and [[Devon]] to the south-west. Its north and west are washed by the waters of the [[Bristol Channel]
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  • |picture=Ireland - Plains of South Kildare.jpg ...outh Kildare.jpg|thumb|right|277px|Looking east across the broad plains of South Kildare to the distant Wicklow Hills.]]
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  • |constituency=Ochil and South Perthshire ...to the north and the [[River Devon, Clackmannanshire|River Devon]] to the south.
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  • | constituency=Ochil and South Perthshire ...age of [[Coalsnaughton]] lies just south, whilst [[Alloa]] lies four miles south-west.
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  • ...It lies 11 miles south-east of [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] and 10 miles south-west of [[Windsor]]. The town is surrounded, on the east and south, by the vast expanse of [[Swinley Woods]] and [[Crowthorne]] Woods. The tow
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  • | county= Devon | LG district= West Devon
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  • |county=Devon The City of '''Exeter''' is the county town of [[Devon]] and the site of [[Exeter Cathedral]], founded in the 12th century and the
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  • |county=Devon ...n]]. It is Devon's largest town and the major regional centre both of West Devon and for much of [[Cornwall]]. Plymouth stands between the mouths of the ri
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  • |county = Devon |LG district= North Devon
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  • | county = Devon '''Newton Abbot''' is a market town in East [[Devon]], on the banks of the [[River Teign]], with a population of 23,580.<ref>{{
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  • | county =Devon '''Paignton''' is a town on the south coast of [[Devon]], on Tor Bay. It is a seaside resort, part of the holiday destination kno
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  • |county=Devon |LG district= West Devon
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  • |county = Devon |LG district= West Devon
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  • |picture=Tiverton-Devon-RiverExe.jpg |county=Devon
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  • | county = Devon | picture=torquay.devon.750pix.jpg
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  • ...Rainford Junction, a smaller settlement which has grown up around Rainford railway station. The two parts of the village are separated by a band of farmland, ...ford; King's Moss to the east, Crawford to the north-east and Crank to the south-east.
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  • ..., the East Dart and West Dart, though the moor is the source of several of Devon's great rivers. .... The moor rises to its highest point at 2,037 feet on [[High Willhays]], Devon's [[county top]], and the whole moor is a great range of hills, many capped
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  • The town lies in the shelter of Mount's Bay facing south-east onto the [[English Channel]]. To the west lies the fishing port of [[N ...ast path. Nearer to hand, the pretty fishing port of [[Newlyn]] is to the south, now contiguous with Penzance, and around the cliff is [[Mousehole]] from w
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  • ...land of [[Hampshire]] 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 The south coast of the island borders the [[English Channel]]. Without man's interven
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  • ...town at the [[River Stour, Dorset|River Stour]] lies [[Wimborne Minster]]. South of Poole along the coast lies Poole Bay, with 3 miles of sandy beaches from ...d by lowland heathland to the north and wooded chines and coastline to the south. The heathland habitat supports the six native British reptile species and
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  • ...stinguish it from [[Little Grimsby]], a village about 14&nbsp;miles to the south, near [[Louth, Lincolnshire|Louth]]. ...of the usual trends, large numbers of fishermen from the South-East and [[Devon]] travelled North to join the Grimsby fleet. Over 40% of these newcomers ca
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  • ...o junctions of the M5 motorway. Bridgwater railway station is on the main railway line between [[Bristol]] and Taunton. ...s built with a pair of adjacent gates and drawbridges. The keep was at the south-east corner of what is now King Square, and documents show that the complex
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  • ...he following morning buses via Wick to John o' Groats, an ordinary one-way railway fare for the rail section of the journey cost £216.<ref>[http://www.transp ...West Coast Path''; or by a shorter inland route through [[Cornwall]] and [[Devon]] by minor roads and paths, the ''Two Castles Trail'' and the towpath of th
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  • ...n the route of the old Great North Road), and the [[East Coast Main Line]] railway. It has town walls, a large though ruined castle, and a large Georgian mar ...e flood meadow by the town the little [[River Devon, Nottinghamshire|River Devon]] flows, joining the Trent here.
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  • ...nr.naturalengland.org.uk/special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?themeid=1082977|title=South Taunton Streams|work=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=English Nature|accessd The parish church of St. Mary Magdalene, built of sandstone more in the South Somerset style, preserves an attractive painted interior, but its most nota
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  • ...ddar Yeo is one of several rivers called the [[River Yeo]] in Somerset and Devon. The name ''Yeo'' is from the Old English word ''ea'', meaning simply "riv It then flows south under a disused railway bridge which used to carry the Cheddar Valley line and west through [[Rackl
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  • ...Mark Yeo is one of several rivers called the [[River Yeo]] in Somerset and Devon, and is known as the Mark Yeo to avoid confusion with the others. The name ...d Estate, north of [[Nailsea]] where it is crossed by Jacklands Bridge and south of [[Wraxall, Somerset|Wraxall]], continuing through a man made watercourse
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  • ...[Cambus]] (where it is joined by the river [[River Devon, Clackmannanshire|Devon]]), [[Alloa]], [[Fallin]] and [[Airth]]. ...railway bridge between [[Alloa]] on the north shore and [[Throsk]] on the south opened in 1885 and was closed (and largely demolished) in 1970. Only the m
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  • The '''Beaulieu River''' ({{IPA|bjuːli}}) is a small river flowing south through the [[New Forest]] in [[Hampshire]]. The river is some 12 miles lon ...River rises near [[Lyndhurst]] in the centre of the New Forest, and flows south-easterly across the forest heaths to the village of [[Beaulieu]]. At Beauli
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  • The '''Tavy''' is a river on [[Dartmoor]] in [[Devon]]. It gives its name to [[Tavistock]], the main town on the river, and to t *[[River Burn, Devon|River Burn]]
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  • ...lows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in [[Devon]]. ...t [[Exeter]], but there is now a viaduct for the M5 motorway about 2 miles south of the city centre.
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  • |constituency=South East Cornwall Gunnislake is the first village reached by a traveller from Devon crossing the Tamar by way of the New Bridge, built in 1520.
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  • ...tch where the county border darts west along the [[River Ottery]], leaving Devon on both banks of the Tamar for a short reach. The Tamar's source is some three miles from the north Devon coast, but it flows southward. At its mouth, the Tamar flows into the [[Ham
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  • The '''Erme''' is a river in south [[Devon]]. From its source on [[Dartmoor]] it flows in a generally southerly direct ...in Bigbury Bay, between the rivers [[River Yealm|Yealm]] and [[River Avon, Devon|Avon]].
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  • |county=Devon |map=Lundy location in Devon.svg
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  • ...lamorgan]] and [[Monmouthshire]] on the northern shore and [[Somerset]], [[Devon|Devonshire]] and [[Cornwall]] on the southern. ...Bay, the [[Hartland Point]] peninsula, [[Lundy]], the [[Gower]] Peninsula, South Pembrokeshire and [[Caldey Island]].
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  • ...n 1839 to £3,111 in 1855. Many of the connecting waterways were bought by railway companies, and gradually fell into disrepair. In an attempt to improve the ...ioned to survey the river, while negotiations with the North Staffordshire Railway, who owned the Trent and Mersey Canal and had maintained its viability, ens
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  • ...anted in 1512 to Catherine of York widow of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon and her heirs.<ref name="victhist"/> Her son Henry was created Marquess of ...ton.<ref name="victhist"/> From this date Breamore followed the descent of South Charford until 1741, when Francis Lord Brooke sold it to Samuel Dixon, prel
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  • The headwaters of the Darent are fed by springs in the greensand hills south of [[Westerham]] in [[Kent]] and below [[Limpsfield Chart]] in [[Surrey]]. ...[[River Dart]] in Devon may have the same derivation, as [[Dartmouth]] in Devon appears in the record as ''Dærentamuða'' in 1049.
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  • Portland is 5 miles south of the town of [[Weymouth]] at {{map|SY690721}} and forms the southernmost ...part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site on the Dorset and east [[Devon]] coast, important for its geology and landforms. Its name is used for one
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=East Devon
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  • |constituency=South East Cornwall ...he Hamoaze; the estuary of the [[River Tamar]]. It faces [[Plymouth]] in [[Devon]] on the opposite shore. It is one of the larger towns of Cornwall, swolle
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  • |county=Devon '''Bovey Tracey''' is a small town in [[Devon]] on the edge of [[Dartmoor]], its proximity to which gives rise to the "sl
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=East Devon
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  • |county=Devon ...he [[River Teign]], at its mouth on the [[English Channel]] about 14 miles south of [[Exeter]]. It had a population of 14,413 in 2001.
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  • ...of the industrialised towns close in with the contiguous townscape of the south of the county. ...ands on the [[River Irwell]], 5½ miles east of [[Bolton]], six miles west-south-west of [[Rochdale]], and eight miles north-north-west of the city of [[Man
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  • ...ps separate Ickenham from [[Ruislip]] to the north and [[Uxbridge]] to the south, the latter gap being Uxbridge Common. ...2011}}</ref> When Ickenham obtained a railway station on the Metropolitan Railway's line between [[Harrow on the Hill|Harrow]] and [[Uxbridge]], it brought w
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  • ...c views of the [[Brecon Beacons]], [[Bristol Channel]] and the coasts of [[Devon]] and [[Somerset]]. ...piece of land at the southern extremity of the Taff Bargoed Valley to the south of the hamlet of [[Llancaiach]]. It existed on a drovers' trail from the co
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  • '''Alston''' is a small town in [[Cumberland]] on the [[River Tyne|River South Tyne]]. It is one of the highest-elevation towns in the country, at about 1 The town lies on the confluence of the [[River South Tyne]] and the River Nent. The landscape of the area is built up from limes
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  • |county=Devon ...e of [[Dartmoor]] in [[Devon]]. It stands beside the A38, the major route south around the moor.
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=East Devon
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  • |county=Devon |picture=Bideford-Devon.jpg
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=Mid Devon
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  • |county=Devon '''Brixham''' is a small fishing town on the southeast coast of [[Devon]]. It is at the southern end of [[Tor Bay]] and of the little [[Torbay]] c
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  • |county=Devon '''Buckfastleigh''' is a small [[market town]] in [[Devon]], standing on the southern edge of [[Dartmoor]] (and more prosaically bes
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=North Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=Mid Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=South Hams
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  • |county=Devon '''Dawlish''' is a town on the south coast of [[Devon]], 12 miles downstream of the county town, [[Exeter]]. It had a population
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  • |county=Devon |picture=Dawlish Warren Devon England.jpg
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  • |county=Devon |constituency=Torridge and West Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=East Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=North Devon
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  • |county=Devon |constituency=South West Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=North Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=West Devon
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  • |county=Devon |constituency=Torridge and West Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=East Devon
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  • |county=Devon |constituency=East Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=South Hams
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  • Bude lies southwest of [[Stratton, Cornwall|Stratton]], south of [[Flexbury]] and Poughill, and north of [[Widemouth Bay]] and more prosa ...rocks called the Bude Formation. Many formations can be viewed from the [[South West Coast Path]] which passes through the town.
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  • |constituency=South East Cornwall ...eastern [[Cornwall]], found about 7 miles north of [[Saltash]] and 9 miles south of [[Launceston]]. The parish had a population of 4,783 at the 2001 census
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  • |constituency=South East Cornwall ...Viaduct which soars high across the Tamar here bearing the railway between Devon and Cornwall. It is also a village wedded to the tidal river and boats tak
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  • |constituency=South East Cornwall ...f [[Plymouth]], 14 miles west of the [[River Tamar]] and the border with [[Devon]], and 12 miles east of [[Bodmin]]. The town is at the head of the [[River
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  • ...Sancreed]] and [[Madron]] to the east, [[St Buryan]] and [[Sennen]] to the south and by the sea in the west. ...of the historic mining areas of Cornwall had become the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site.
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=West Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=West Devon
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  • ...ands 25 miles west of [[Dorchester]] and 25 miles east of [[Exeter]]. The Devon border is at the edge of the town, just a third of a mile west of the harbo ..."UNESCO">[http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1029 Dorset and East Devon Coast] – UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2001</ref> The coastal exposures a
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  • ...e tidal reaches of the [[River Tamar]] and [[River Tavy]], which meet just south of [[Bere Ferrers]]. ...ff by the unbridged rivers, the peninsula is a place apart, on the edge of Devon with Cornwall across the Tamar, the two rivers broad with water or at low w
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  • |county=Devon ...or most of its existence, one of the Three Towns; Devonport, [[Stonehouse, Devon|Stonehouse]] and [[Plymouth]], which were eventually joined together as Ply
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  • |county=Devon ...was a village that is now a dense suburb in the north of [[Plymouth]] in [[Devon]].
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  • ...mbe.arp.750pix.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The path on the cliffs at Ilfracombe, Devon]] ...all]] to [[Land's End]] and then on round the south coasts of Cornwall and Devon then [[Dorset]] to finish at [[Poole Harbour]]. It picks its way amongst s
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  • ...cove on the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast. The village is seven miles south-southwest of [[Bude]] and four miles north-northeast of [[Boscastle]], whos ...lassified as southern Britain's highest sheer-drop cliff (Great Hangman in Devon has a cliff face of 820 feet.<ref>Richards, Mark (1974) Walking the North C
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  • ...uary of the [[River Stour, Essex|River Stour]], which divides Essex to the south from [[Suffolk]] to the north, it opens on to the [[North Sea]]. ...rthwest. [[Colchester]] is to the southwest and [[Clacton-on-Sea]] to the south. Harwich is considered the northernmost coastal town within Essex.
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=Mid Devon
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  • '''Torbay''' or '''Tor Bay''' is a wide bay in the east coast of [[Devon]], on the [[English Channel]], and also the name given collectively to the ...rbour, bounded by headlands; Hopes Nose at the north and Berry Head in the south, where Brixham stands.
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  • ...theroe]] to the west, [[Nelson, Lancashire|Nelson]] and [[Burnley]] to the south, and its fellow West Riding town [[Keighley]] to the east. ...e [[United Kingdom]] without repeating any letters. [[Buckfastleigh]] in [[Devon]], [[Buslingthorpe, Yorkshire|Buslingthorpe]] in the West Riding and [[Busl
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  • ...ts - Newmilns lies to the north of the river, whilst Greenholm lies to the south. The river also divides the parishes of [[Loudoun]] and [[Galston]], which ...last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the railway station (present-day Vesuvius building).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scot
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  • |LG district=South Somerset ...thern [[Somerset]], five miles north-west of [[Wincanton]] and eight miles south of [[Shepton Mallet]], in the [[Catsash Hundred]].
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  • '''Dulverton''' is a small town in [[Somerset]], near the border with [[Devon]]. The town had a recorded population of 1,486 in 2001. Dulverton is a po ...ch provides an example of unimproved mire of a type which is restricted to south-west England and Wales and which has been significantly reduced in extent i
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  • ...west of the county town of [[Taunton]] and 12 miles from the border with [[Devon]]. [[Exmoor]] lies at its back, filling this western part of Somerset, its ...1874 and closed in 1971 but has since been reopened as the [[West Somerset Railway]].
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  • ...the border with [[Devon]] (which runs along the [[Blackdown Hills]] to the south of the town) and more prosaically by the [[M5 motorway]]. ...deard]] to Bishop Asser in exchange for the monastery of [[Plympton]] in [[Devon]].<ref name="townhist">{{cite web|url=http://www.wellingtontowncouncil.co.u
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  • ...lude the Rivers [[River Tone|Tone]], [[River Isle|Isle]], and [[River Yeo (South Somerset)|Yeo]], and the [[River Cary]] by way of the [[King's Sedgemoor Dr ...vans suggests that "it was the name which the Welsh people of Somerset and Devon gave to that river because it was at one time the dividing line between the
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  • ...rth, [[Redbridge, Essex|Redbridge]] to the east and [[Forest Gate]] to the south. Wanstead is one of the greener towns in the area, containing the Wanstead ...of 18th-century Essex rural festivals; the Galmpton Gooseberry Pie Fair in Devon is still in existence, and other inns around the edge of Epping Forest were
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  • ...ilway Hotel and then the Great Southern Hotel, built by the Great Southern Railway Company in 1845.<ref name="Hotel Meyrick Website">{{cite web|url=http://www The Spanish Arch, in the south-west of the city, was built in the 1580s as an extension to the city walls,
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  • ...rhomboidal or lozenge shape on the map with the acute angles to north and south. ...has river valleys along its boundaries to north east ([[Clydesdale]]) and south-west ([[Nithsdale]]) which carry the two largest arterial routes northwards
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