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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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