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• Margate
  Margate features as a destination in Graham Swift's novel ''Last Orders'' and the film version of it. Jack Dodds has asked to ...an'' as a contract specification and conclude that where: "Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea", it must exit
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• The Great Fen
  Drainage in the Fenland consists of both river drainage and internal drainage of the land between the rivers. The internal ...on of fen in eastern England: including the lower drainage basins of the [[River Nene]] and the [[Great Ouse]], it covers approximately 500 square miles. It
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• East Anglia
  ...able land by means of systematic drainage using a collection of drains and river diversions. In the 1630s thousands of Puritan families from East Anglia set [[File:Deepest Suffolk - geograph.org.uk - 224461.jpg|right|thumb|150px|The River Dove in Suffolk]]
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• Swift Ditch
  [[File:SwiftDitch03.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Swift Ditch as it leaves the Thames]] [[File:SwiftDitch02.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Site of the old lock for the Swift Ditch just downstream from the main branch]]
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• Republic of Ireland
  [[File:Deciduous woodland by the Owengarriff River - geograph.org.uk - 449903.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Deciduous woodland in Coun ...he [[River Shannon]], which traverses the central lowlands, is the longest river in Ireland at 241 miles from [[Shannon Pot]] to the sea.
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• River Irk
  [[File:River_Irk.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The River Irk, swollen by rain, in Newtown]] The '''River Irk''' is a river of [[Lancashire]] that flows through the industrial and post-industrial tow
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• Bury
  Bury stands on the [[River Irwell]], 5½ miles east of [[Bolton]], six miles west-south-west of [[Roch ...vided with water from Elton Reservoir, fed by aqueducts from a weir on the River Irwell, north of what is now the Burrs Country Park. The Burrs is also the
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• Willenhall
  ...verhampton]] and [[Walsall]] and stands on the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]]. ...h'' meaning "a nook or corner of land, ''often used of land in a hollow or river bend''."<ref>Mills, AD., ''A dictionary of English place-names'', second ed
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• Ballyclare
  The town sits on the river [[Six Mile Water]] with Craig Hill providing a wooded backdrop to the east. ...ed and others are blank indicating an 'industry' and trading here near the river crossing over four thousand years ago.
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• Rotherham
  ..., Yorkshire|River Don]], where the Don meets the [[River Rother, Yorkshire|River Rother]], between [[Sheffield]] and [[Doncaster]]. ...ciety'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.vv. ROTHERHAM and River ROTHER SYorks.</ref> though the English "Hriðer" ("ox") is another possibi
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• Stonehouse, Devon
  ...the Stonehouse Creek was also known as "East Stonehouse", while across the river was "West Stonehouse", near [[Cremyll]]. The site of West Stonehouse is wi ...f the Royal William Victualling Yard between 1826 and 1835. This prompted swift growth in related buildings, houses, docks and businesses, and combined wit
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• Morecambe Bay
  ...ncashire, but [[Westmorland]] at its southernmost reaches the bay on the [[River Kent]] estuary, around [[Arnside]], splitting Lancashire into its two parts ...rish Sea, the [[River Duddon|Duddon Sands]], which mark the estuary of the River Duddon between Lancashire and [[Cumberland]], partake of much the same char
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• Bourne, Lincolnshire
  ...ted the town to the sea in Roman times. The word "ea" is old English for "river", and is in the name of many fenland waterways. On occasion a later age ha ...impossible once the junction of the Eau and the [[River Glen, Lincolnshire|River Glen]] was converted from gates to a sluice in 1860.
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• Chelsea
  ...s Road and Chelsea Harbour. Its eastern boundary was once defined by the [[River Westbourne]], which is now in a pipe above Sloane Square tube station. The </ref>) originates from the Old English term for "landing place [on the river] for chalk or limestone" (''Cealc-hyð'': chalk-wharf, in Anglo-Saxon). The
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• Darvel
  The [[River Irvine]] flows through the town and once powered local mills. ...anufactured in India, China and other Far East countries. The decline was swift. By the end of the 20th century, almost all the factories had closed. Man
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• Newmilns
  ...s lies to the north of the river, whilst Greenholm lies to the south. The river also divides the parishes of [[Loudoun]] and [[Galston]], which is why the ...s the course of the river. Most of the town sits on the north side of the river, whilst the south side remains less-developed, despite being generally flat
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• River Spey
  [[File:River Spey.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The River Spey at Aberlour]] ...verness-shire]] (at [[Loch Spey]]; {{map|NN419937}}) and flows down with a swift stream, its lower reaches forming the border between [[Morayshire]] and [[B
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• Eskdale, Cumberland
  ...alley in western [[Cumberland]], the valley of the [[River Esk, Cumberland|River Esk]]. It is a sparsely populated place, with about 260 inhabitants. ...d of Allerdale above Derwent, not Eskdale Ward, which is named after the [[River Esk, Dumfriesshire|Dumfriesshire Esk]].
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• Trim
  ...ur is claimed by [[Navan]]. St Patrick's Cathedral is located north of the river; reputedly Ireland's oldest. On the [[River Boyne]] banks, Trim became one of the most important Hiberno-Norman settlem
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• Great North Road
  ...re|Topcliffe]] to [[Northallerton]] and then out of Yorkshire across the [[River Tees]] into [[County Durham]], running through [[Darlington]] and [[Durham] ...the journey, claiming instead that the ride was by John Nevison, known as "Swift Nick", who was born and raised at Wortley near Sheffield and was a highwaym
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