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• Whitstable
  ...mous for its oysters, which have been collected in the area since at least Roman times. The town itself dates back to before the writing of the [[Domesday B ...harvested in the area in Roman times.<ref name="oyster"/> The remains of a Roman building have been found in the centre of the town. Charters indicate that
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• Lanarkshire
  [[Glasgow]], on the Clyde, is one of Britain's greatest cities, built up by the industrial revolution, transatlantic tra ...ribe of the most barbarous practices, and in ''The Decline and Fall or the Roman Empire'' Gibbon (who wrote during the Enlightenment) commented:
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• Lancashire
  ...county are [[Liverpool]] and [[Manchester]], two of the greatest cities in Britain, whose suburbs spread across not just Lancashire but into [[Cheshire]] too. ...pulous city after London, is an older and a younger city; it was a town in Roman days and a fortress borough in Anglo-Saxon times, but it only became a town
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• Leicestershire
  ...ny local institutions. Leicester, the county town is a historic city with Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Danish and Mediæval roots under a substantial modern city un ...growing claims to be the largest village in the county, or the largest in Britain or even in Europe! The county's main towns and villages are:
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• Lincolnshire
  Lincolnshire is one of Britain's biggest counties, the fifth largest; but despite having a population of o ...rural area where the pace of life is generally much slower than in much of Britain. Sunday is still largely a day of rest, with only shops in Lincoln, larger
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• Merionethshire
  ...||,}}, Merioneth is one of the more sparsely-populated counties in [[Great Britain]]. ...ns; Bala in the east is far from the Victorian towns of the coast, but a [[Roman road]] ran over the mountain from [[Bala]] to [[Dolgellau]], a route now tr
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• Middlesex
  ...as appeared. ''Ad Pontes'' at [[Staines-upon-Thames|Staines]] was a major Roman bridging point. ...e Bow Street Runners and in 1829, the first official police force in Great Britain, the Metropolitan Police.
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• Midlothian
  Edinburgh, Scotland's historic capital, is possibly the loveliest city in Britain. Its heart is the Castle, perched high on its immemorial rock, and the Roya ...ng and its central place in the story of Edinburgh, of Scotland and of all Britain, for here, the founding place of ancient Edinburgh, stands Edinburgh Castle
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• Monmouthshire
  ...lomew |date=1887 |work=Gazetteer of the British Isles |publisher=Vision of Britain}}</ref> ...ye]] is one of the great rivers of the kingdom; indeed only four rivers of Britain are longer. It is not specifically a Monmouthshire river, rising in the mo
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• Nairnshire
  ...Graupius'', whose site is unknown. Otherwise there is little evidence of a Roman presence in Nairnshire nor anywhere northward.
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• Norfolk
  ...rfolk looks east at the sea, and from here came seaborne raiders from late Roman times. The Romans built forts to defend against them, such as those whose ...''Voices of the Powerless''] - 29 August 2002, Plague in Tudor and Stuart Britain</ref> By the 16th century Norwich had grown to become the second largest ci
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• Northamptonshire
  ...todorum'', stood on the site of modern-day [[Towcester]]. There were other Roman settlements at [[Northampton]], [[Kettering]] and along the [[River Nene|Ne ...&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=&f=false The Rough Guide to Britain] 2004. Rough Guides. Retrieved 5 September 2009.</ref>
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• Orkney
  ...erences to Orkney"] Orkneyjar.com</ref> Writing in the 1st century AD, the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela called the islands ''Orcades'', as did Tacitus in ...colan fleet had come and gone, possibly anchoring at [[Shapinsay]], direct Roman influence seems to have been limited to trade rather than conquest.<ref nam
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• Peeblesshire
  ...se hills; traces of their irruptions are seen at Lyne, in the remains of a Roman camp known locally as Randal's Walls. After the Roman withdrawal from Britain, little is known for certain. Legend places King Arthur at here, fighting a
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• Pembrokeshire
  ...of Wales'', Penguin, 1994, ''foundations of'' pgs 17,19</ref> By the late Roman Empire period, an Irish tribe known as the ‘’Déisi’’ settled in th In the post-Roman period, the Irish Déisi had become one with the local Britons, but the nam
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• Perthshire
  ...ffectually to subdue the tribesmen. When the Romans finally withdrew from Britain, the Picts established their capital first at [[Abernethy]] and then at [[F
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• Renfrewshire
  ...AD 84 built the fort at Barochan, and for a time Renfrewshire was within a Roman province, some miles south of the frontier. ...hey found the lands here occupied by the ''Damnonii'' tribe. The principal Roman stronghold in the area was at ''Uanduara'', a fort on high ground now cover
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• Ross-shire
  ...separated by the watershed between the eastern and western coasts of Great Britain. The Isle of [[Lewis]] is part of the [[Outer Hebrides]], and contains tho ...effected even a temporary settlement in the area of the modern county. In Roman times, and for long afterwards, the land was occupied by Picts, who, in the
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• Shetland
  ...of a group of many mountainous islands in the seas to the north of [[Great Britain]]. ...m's northernmost point, the rock of Out Stack, north of [[Muckle Flugga]], Britain's northernmost island.
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• Shropshire
  The [[River Severn]], Britain's longest river, courses through the heart of Shropshire and creates a broa ...ional Nature Reserve, one of the most important and best preserved bogs in Britain.
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