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  • ...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
    14 KB (2,095 words) - 21:41, 9 March 2016
  • ...g numbers of Aberdeen commuters going to live there making it "the fastest growing town in Great Britain".
    12 KB (1,994 words) - 17:34, 3 November 2023
  • ...of carpet manufacturing and the disappearance of the jute trade. To combat growing unemployment and declining economic conditions, Dundee was declared an Ente
    17 KB (2,582 words) - 11:19, 18 July 2017
  • 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
    18 KB (2,717 words) - 17:38, 29 January 2016
  • ...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
    2 KB (323 words) - 14:24, 20 August 2010
  • ...lfast has begun a social, economic and cultural transformation giving it a growing international cultural reputation.<ref>{{cite web | title = Summary of the
    21 KB (3,245 words) - 15:45, 26 December 2019
  • ...-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
    10 KB (1,593 words) - 16:21, 11 August 2014
  • ...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
    62 KB (9,049 words) - 15:49, 1 October 2017
  • ...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
    21 KB (3,393 words) - 15:04, 6 January 2015
  • * [http://www.theroyalwindsorwebsite.com Royal Windsor Website - An ever growing Reference Area for Windsor Past and Present]
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  • Traditionally, Biggleswade has been a vegetable- and produce-growing area with trains often taking daily loads of vegetables to London's produce
    8 KB (1,203 words) - 14:19, 7 July 2016
  • ...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
    19 KB (3,149 words) - 14:50, 27 January 2016
  • ...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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  • ...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
    13 KB (2,110 words) - 20:45, 27 January 2016
  • ...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
    13 KB (2,052 words) - 13:16, 27 January 2016
  • ...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|
    29 KB (4,342 words) - 22:23, 12 August 2023
  • ...rtiel and to the east of Boreland. The farmland land hereabouts is arable, growing cereals, potatoes, field beans, other vegetables.
    26 KB (3,903 words) - 09:19, 30 January 2021
  • The industries growing in nineteenth century Stroud craved better transport links, and soon came t
    14 KB (2,176 words) - 13:07, 8 November 2019
  • Neighbouring [[Inverness]] is now the fastest-growing city in Scotland, which has put pressure on Nairn in turn. Land to the eas
    3 KB (533 words) - 22:27, 26 September 2010
  • ...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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