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  • |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of London arms.svg
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  • |flag=Flag of Middlesex.svg ...ost populous, almost entirely forming part of the metropolitan conurbation of [[London]].
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  • |flag=County Flag of Wiltshire.svg |county town=[[Salisbury]]
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  • ...[[Aberdeen]]. The ancient parish together with that of the nearby village of [[St Vigeans]] form a combined civil parish. ...A new harbour was built in 1839 and by the 1900s, Arbroath had become one of the larger fishing ports in Scotland.
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  • ...t is seven miles east of [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] and 3½ miles west of [[Bracknell]]. ...t industry, brick-making, has given way to software development (like much of eastern Berkshire), light engineering and service industries. In 2007 Hali
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  • ...le of the place (eye-zul) has no relation to any 'isle' and is an instance of a counterintuitive place name. However in this instance it can be argued th ...ff Thomas Brigge or Berigge, clerk, on a plea of debt, with Richard Beaupe of Thistelworth, Middx</ref>
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  • ...s, as well as various animal bones and traces of charcoal from the remains of campfires.<ref name="Cotton p.8"/> ...l centre, and is the location of Brunel University and the Uxbridge campus of Buckinghamshire New University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bucks.ac.uk/abou
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  • ...h is the heart of the [[Soke of Peterborough]], the north-easternmost part of Northamptonshire. ...n centre has been greatly redeveloped and is surrounded but a great number of twentieth-century residential neighbourhoods, many entirely replacing older
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  • ...iver Yeo and the A30 road, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, 6 miles east of [[Yeovil]]. Much of the town, including many mediæval and Georgian buildings, is built from di
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  • |post town=Salisbury ...shire]] and [[Wiltshire]]. The village has formed part of the civil parish of [[Landford]] since 2017.
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  • ...n in [[Pembrokeshire]], the county's most populous town, with a population of 13,367 in 2001. ...The Welsh language name is said by BG Charles to be "merely a corruption of the English name", and as such has no meaning in Welsh. Another notion is t
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  • ...Henry VIII in 1539. The Old Town still remains and is the prettiest part of town. The biggest change for the town was after Second World War when Heme ...d Hemel Hempstead "The most attractive town in Herts".<ref>''The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire'' by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner</ref> This however was bef
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  • ...s old origins but is also a new town and bears the development of that age of post-war enthusiasm. ...ce the days of Sir Robert Cecil, the First Earl of Salisbury, in the reign of King James I.
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  • '''Christchurch''' is a town in [[Hampshire]] on the south coast of [[Great Britain]]. The town adjoins [[Bournemouth]] in the west and the [[N ...ally named Twynham but became known as Christchurch following the building of the priory in 1094.
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  • ...lt on the banks of the [[River Wey]] and is a prosperous if far-flung part of the [[London commuter belt]]. ...alming Hundred. The estate of ''æt Godelmingum'' is mentioned in the will of King Alfred the Great, its name apparently from ''Godhelmingas'' meaning "G
    10 KB (1,588 words) - 22:44, 28 January 2016
  • |LG district=Vale of White Horse ...on]]. The parish includes the village of [[Bayworth]] and the eastern part of [[Boars Hill]].
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  • ...1th century, Norwich was the largest city in England after London, and one of the most important places in the kingdom. ...ers the [[Norfolk Broads]], all at sea level. Norwich is thus at the edge of those flat lands for which Norfolk is rightly famous and the rivers, tidal
    34 KB (5,393 words) - 12:57, 30 March 2016
  • ...to the north. It is 18 miles north of [[Brighton]] and 32 miles north-east of the [[county town]], [[Chichester]]. Crawley is a New Town, designated in Crawley is within the Rape of Lewes.
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  • |name=Salisbury |picture=Salisbury Cathedral.jpg
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  • ...hire]], found 13 miles east of [[Bath]]. In the 2001 census the population of the town was recorded as 28,065. ...r Avon, Somerset|River Avon]] and is believed to have existed as some form of settlement since before Roman times. It was a royal vill, and probably a ro
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  • ...[Wiltshire]], about 10 miles southeast of [[Chippenham]] and 11 miles east of [[Trowbridge]]. ...has nearly five hundred listed buildings, a large open Green at the heart of the town,<ref>[http://www.devizesheritage.org.uk/the_green_and_crammer_phot
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  • ...an be seen running through the middle of the town park. The Minster Church of St Denys sits on the River Were. ==Name of the town==
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  • |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Bristol arms.svg
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  • |church=Church of England |bishop=Martin Warner
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  • |arms=Coat of arms of the Diocese of Bangor.svg |bishop=Andrew John
    29 KB (3,374 words) - 17:47, 22 May 2012
  • |arms=Coat of arms of the Diocese of Llandaff.svg |bishop=Barry Morgan
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  • |arms=Coat of arms of the Diocese of St Asaph.svg |bishop=Gregory Cameron
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  • |arms=Coat of arms of the Diocese of St Davids.svg |bishop=Wyn Evans
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  • |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Sodor and Man arms.svg
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  • ...]. It now forms part of the narrow conurbation stretching up the west side of the River Lea in south-eastern Hertfordshire ...ford]], five miles north of [[Waltham Cross]] and 11 miles south-west of [[Bishop's Stortford]]. At its height during the 18th century, more than 35 coaches
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  • ...ver Wey]] runs to the south. Haslemere is approximately 12 miles southwest of [[Guildford]]. ...o the north. The latter was the site of executions in past centuries. Many of those hanged there were highwaymen, because the roads around Haslemere, par
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  • |church=Church of England |picture=Hereford, cathedral church of St. Mary and St. Ethelbert - geograph.org.uk - 636844.jpg
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  • |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Lichfield arms.svg
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  • ...Archbishop of Canterbury, who as Primate of All England is the most senior of the Church’s clergy. ...land Islands]] is an extra-diocesan parish also overseen by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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  • .../doc/1O110-Yorkmetropolitandioceseof.html|title=York, metropolitan diocese of|last=Cannon|first=John|year=2002|work=The Oxford Companion to British Histo ...is York Minster, formally known as The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York.
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  • ...]] approximately a mile and a half south of [[Bridport]]. The area is part of the [[Jurassic Coast]], a World Heritage Site. ...r at West Bay is not a natural landscape feature and it has a long history of having been silted up, blocked by shingle and damaged by storms, and each t
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  • ...as ''Godhelmia'', mainly because of the predominance of north/south routes of communication through the area that have existed since ancient times. As re ...d sometime after 825 when [[Wessex]] annexed the "south eastern provinces" of Surrey, the Sussex, Kent and Essex.
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  • [[File:Tower of London, April 2006.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Tower of London]] ...y, the political and economic capitals of the kingdom are here and so much of Britain's history has happened in Middlesex.
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  • ..., and while the abbey was dissolved under King Henry VIII, a sizeable part of its structure survives. ...data/arch-906-1/dissemination/pdf/EUS_Texts/Malmesbury.pdf The Archaeology of Wiltshire"s Towns. An Extensive Urban Survey: MALMESBURY] (Wiltshire County
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  • ...aces of many ages in it back to a thousand years ago. It had a population of 9,326 at the 2001 census. The town's canal, historic buildings, shops, pubs
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  • ...[River Avon, Hampshire|River Avon]], close to the [[New Forest]] and north of [[Bournemouth]]. It has a history dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, and has ...expensive market town in Britain in July 2008 with average property prices of over £380,000.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews
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  • ...ome]]. The town is approximately 13 miles south of [[Bath]], 43 miles east of the [[county town]], [[Taunton]]. In the 2001 census, the population was gi ...from down the centre of Cheap Street (from a well at the top). Every one of the true townsfolk must have fallen in the Leet at some point in their live
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  • ...e=2008-08-30}}</ref> In doing so it shows off an eclectic mixture of some of the finest lowland scenery in southern [[Great Britain]]. ...ked. The waymark shows a picture of the ship ''The Surprise'', the Prince of Wales crown and the Royal Oak tree at Boscobel House.
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  • '''Wilton''' is most familiarly the town of that name [[Wilton|in Wiltshire]]. It may though be: *[[Wilton]], west of Salisbury
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  • [[File:Geograph-1941525-by-Trevor-Rickard.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Part of Wansdyke, Wiltshire]] [[File:Uffington-White-Horse-sat.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The White Horse of Uffington, Berkshire]]
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  • |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Durham arms.svg
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  • |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Worcester arms.svg
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  • |church=Church of England |picture=1095509-Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity (6).jpg
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  • |church=Church of England |picture=Cathedral of Exeter edit.jpg
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  • |church=Church of England |picture=Guildford & Cathedral of Surrey.JPG
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